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‘Informal infrastructures’?

I’ll be at Ethnographic perspectives on South Asian politics in Manchester this Friday thinking about ‘water mafias’ and informal infrastructures…  … More

borewells, mafia, media, Politics, presentations, representation, south delhi, tanker, tubewells, Water

Delhi waters: Unequal, unreliable, and running out

  Although Delhi has more water per person, on average, than London or New York, many still endure a daily … More

AAP, Delhi, Development, Governance, groundwater, India, informality, Infrastructure, Policy, Politics, State, Urban, Urban Services, Water

Politics, informal infra and urban governance

Delighted to see this in EPW’s Review of Urban Affairs! Politics, information technology and informal infrastructures in urban governance (pdf) … More

Delhi, EPW, Governance, ICT, India, informality, information, Infrastructure, JNNURM, Maharashtra, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Politics, Pune, smart cities, technology, ULB, Urban, Urban Services, Water

Publics@IIHS Bangalore

PUBLIC TALK Underground Water: Techno-Political Ecology in ‘Unauthorised’ Delhi Thursday | 5 November 2015 | 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Abstract: India … More

AAP, Bangalore, Delhi, groundwater, IIHS, informality, MLA, peri-urban, Piped water, Political ecology, Politics, PPP, Reforms, south delhi, Tankers, technology, tubewells, unauthorised colonies, water ATMs

Politics of Fire – Kerry Chance

“Where there is fire, there is politics”: Ungovernability and Material Life in Urban South Africa. Great new article by Kerry … More

'Nature', 'World Class', Abahlali baseMjondolo, Durban, electric, fire, Politics, South Africa

AAP campaigns

  AAP 2015 election campaign materials from south Delhi; banners, posters, auto-rickshaw quiz.  Really only of interest to people studying … More

Aam Aadmi, AAP, Campaigns, Delhi, Delhi Elections 2015, Politics

Water in India’s 2014 elections?

Something I wrote for Guardian’s Comment is Free.  Ok, so water’s maybe not _the_ key issue – but I thought … More

AAP, Climate Change, Delhi, Elections, GIS, Governance, groundwater, https://mattbirkinshaw.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/i-895c08003f2d55962c5c052aa9d7cafe-indiawater.png, India, Infrastructure, onions, Policy, Politics, PPP, Tankers, Urban Services, Water

Dear Mandela: Film and discussion with S’bu Zikode

Screening of the award-winning film Dear Mandela (short version) followed by a discussion led by S’bu Zikode, founder of the … More

Land, Politics, South Africa

Notes from the Struggle in the Narmada Valley

Some writing and images from the ongoing mass movement for social and environmental justice by people whose lives, lands and … More

India, Land, Politics, Rivers, Water

The battle for Golibar: urban splintering in Mumbai

Wrote this quickly for OpenDemocracy to try and raise profile of struggle.  * Best thing about this version is full … More

India, Land, Mumbai, Politics, PPP

City Visions and Evictions in Mumbai

THE RIGHT TO THE “WORLD CLASS CITY”? CITY VISIONS AND EVICTIONS IN MUMBAI  Matt Birkinshaw and Victoria Harris The Urban Reinventors … More

'Right to the City', 'World Class', Development, Evictions, India, Land, Mumbai, Politics

‘Be a visitor, not a spy’ – QQ Section, Site B, Khayelitsha

Account of time spent with South African Shack Dwellers’ Movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo in Cape Town in 2008. Update: In November … More

Development, Land, Politics, South Africa, Urban, Water

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