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Accepted Paper:

Dhaka's transport: (re-)negotiating governance and control in a megacity  
Elvira Graner (MWS/ICAS:MP)

Paper short abstract:

When considering urbanisation and urban development, the transport sector needs to be attributed a quintessential role. In this sector space is constantly being reconfigured and re-negotiated. This case study of Dhaka provides a crucial and paradigmatic case study on urban economic governance.

Paper long abstract:

From a governance angle, the transport sector is one of the core sectors of controlling and reconfiguring urban space. At the same time, it is also a sector where (re-)negotiations between the different stakeholders and service providers are pronounced, and often these take place in the public sphere. Thus, we conceptualise Dhaka city as a site (or "arena") of contested space, where powerful stakeholders aim at reconfiguring space and the rules for traffic according to their needs and power position, at the costs of less vocal and less connected urban groups, such as low income groups and politically marginalised sections of the population. Our case study first of all gives an overview of the nation transport policy and its various revision over the past decade. This includes a mapping of the core stakeholders, such as the Dhaka City Corporation or the various owners' associations who control the sector. Conceptionally, this is based on institutional (economic) theory (in terms of the "rules of the game") and governance

Panel P09
Developing control: the reconfiguration of space and the making of development on the ground
  Session 1