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Accepted Paper:
Against the odds: gendered realities of urban slums in Kolkata
Nandita Banerjee Dhawan
(Jadavpur University)
Paper short abstract:
The paper focuses on how women in slums of Kolkata make gendered negotiations for survival within families and communities. I locate the study in the interface between slums and middle class neighbourhoods.
Paper long abstract:
The paper uses the notion of 'feminisation of responsibility and/or obligation' to understand how poor women living in slums of Kolkata negotiate gendered relationships in family and community to become better 'managers' of violence and poverty. I study interactions between slum dwellers and residents in middle class neighbourhood in the larger context of middle class politics of 'distinction' and 'forgetting' of the poor. How does this add to the discourse of the 'spatial purification' of cities?