Fragmented marginalities: dispossessed peasantry and migrant labour communities in urban North India

Das, Ritanjan and Kumar, Nilotpal (2025) Fragmented marginalities: dispossessed peasantry and migrant labour communities in urban North India. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 52 (4). pp. 751-786. ISSN 0306-6150

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Abstract

Analogous to the Euro-American context, Indian cities are usually conceptualised as socio-spatial forms where communities at the peripheries of ‘development’ constitute ‘urban margins’. However, such conceptualisations rarely interrogate the varied aspects of marginality within those spaces. Drawing from an ethnography with dispossessed peasantry (in ‘urban villages’) and migrant labour (in slums/jhuggis) in Noida, a north-Indian city, we unpack three aspects of marginality. First, the process of marginalisation; second, two communities negotiating their marginality differently; third, evolving social relations within each. We propose a relational framework: supra-sub levels of structural-spatial and economic-cultural marginalisation to better understand the fragmentations within urban margins.

Item Type:	Article
Authors:	Das, Ritanjan and Kumar, Nilotpal
Document Language:	Language English
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Marginalisation, dispossession, migration, urban villages, slums, India
Subjects:	Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Communities > Planning and development > Development Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Communities > Planning and development > Development > Urban development
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Development
Full Text Status:	Public
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/7538
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2403510

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