Guest Editors Introduction: Debating Capital, Spectacle and Modernity (2008)
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Jeffrey, A., McFarlane, C., & Vasudevan, A. (2008). Guest Editors Introduction: Debating Capital, Spectacle and Modernity. Public Culture, 20(3), 531-538. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-011

This article introduces the dossier of responses to the RETORT collective's Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (2005). We seek to ground this text in its political and theoretical context, identifying its relevance to scholar... Read More about Guest Editors Introduction: Debating Capital, Spectacle and Modernity.

Governing the contaminated city: infrastructure and sanitation in colonial and postcolonial Bombay (2008)
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McFarlane, C. (2008). Governing the contaminated city: infrastructure and sanitation in colonial and postcolonial Bombay. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32(2), 415-435. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00793.x

This paper examines specific ways in which sanitation infrastructure matter politically both as a set of materials and as a discursive object in colonial and postcolonial Bombay. It reflects on a history of sanitation as a set of concepts which can b... Read More about Governing the contaminated city: infrastructure and sanitation in colonial and postcolonial Bombay.

Spaces of Enclosure. (2008)
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Vasudevan, A., McFarlane, C., & Jeffrey, A. (2008). Spaces of Enclosure. Geoforum, 39(5), 1641-1646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.03.001

Urban Shadows: Materiality, the 'Southern city', and Urban Theory (2008)
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McFarlane, C. (2008). Urban Shadows: Materiality, the 'Southern city', and Urban Theory. Geography Compass, 2(2), 340-358. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00073.x

We may be witnessing a ‘Southern turn’ in urban studies, but the implications for urban theory are only beginning to be worked through. In this article, I argue the need for urbanists to engage with a variety of ‘shadows’ on the edges of urban theory... Read More about Urban Shadows: Materiality, the 'Southern city', and Urban Theory.

Postcolonial Bombay: decline of a cosmopolitan city? (2008)
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McFarlane, C. (2008). Postcolonial Bombay: decline of a cosmopolitan city?. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(3), 480-499. https://doi.org/10.1068/dcos6

Discussions of cosmopolitanism in Bombay often focus on the rubrics of communal tension, tolerance, and violence, and frequently report the decline of a once cosmopolitan city, especially as a result of the communal riots and bombings that occurred i... Read More about Postcolonial Bombay: decline of a cosmopolitan city?.

Sanitation in Mumbai's informal settlements: state, 'slum' and infrastructure (2008)
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McFarlane, C. (2008). Sanitation in Mumbai's informal settlements: state, 'slum' and infrastructure. Environment and Planning A, 40(1), 88-107. https://doi.org/10.1068/a39221

This paper examines an ongoing intervention in sanitation in informal settlements in Mumbai, India. The Slum Sanitation Programme (SSP) is premised upon ‘partnership’, ‘participation’, and ‘cost recovery’ in the delivery of large toilet blocks as a p... Read More about Sanitation in Mumbai's informal settlements: state, 'slum' and infrastructure.