Politics of neutrality: Urban knowledge practices and everyday formalisation in Karachi’s waterscape/ (Record no. 13418)
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| Personal name | Farooqui, Usmaan |
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| Title | Politics of neutrality: Urban knowledge practices and everyday formalisation in Karachi’s waterscape/ |
| Statement of responsibility | Usmaan Farooqui |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Sage, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2020. |
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| Pages | Vol 57, Issue 1, 2020: (2423–2439 p.). |
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| Summary, etc | Formalisation in cities is commonly associated with top-down processes like slum demolition, land titling and economic regulation. By contrast, this article explores processes of everyday formalisation by considering how locally grounded understandings of formality and informality are reproduced. It thus theorises everyday formalisation as a process distinct from state-led formalisation in terms of both the scale (local) and mechanisms (everyday) through which formal/informal dichotomisation occurs. To explore the effects of such everyday formalisation, this article draws on a case study of water access in a low-income settlement of Karachi, Pakistan. Turning attention to everyday practices of water access in the settlement, this article highlights how residents and water board officials understand and enact distinctions between formality and informality through daily knowledge practices and meanings of neutrality. By focusing on everyday formalisation, this article makes two wider contributions to urban theory. First, it demonstrates that urban informality gives rise to diverse lived experiences, not all of which may be characterised as examples of subaltern agency. Secondly, it demonstrates that urban learning and local knowledge generation can be conceptualised not only as tools for urban ‘navigation’, but as distinctive practices that reproduce urban space according to hegemonic categories like formal and informal. |
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| Host Biblionumber | 8843 |
| Host Itemnumber | 16581 |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | London Sage Publications Ltd. 1964 |
| Title | Urban studies |
| International Standard Serial Number | 0042-0980 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019872703 |
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