Tanzeem Ahmed
I am currently a PhD research Scholar in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies (CISLS). At the moment I am working on labour in industrial townships in India. I am also enthusiastic about urban discourse, labour control regimes, and immaterial labour and its application in sites of knowledge and labour production. I am also interested in exploring novel aspects in prison labour.
Address: New Delhi, India
Address: New Delhi, India
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this paper aspires to investigate if the hard-earned moments of liberation after the stupendous struggles for the independence in 1947 and other liberation feats such as affirmative action for the Dalits are a mirage; that if such feats were merely void in essence, their significance considered to be unworthy, deemed fit only to be relegated to the garbage bin of historical advances. At first glance, such claims would be appalling to most people. However, one might find substance in the said statements if one takes a keener look.
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outbreak.
Panic has gripped most of the world as countries have shut down their nations and borders. In the absence of a vaccine and any guaranteed treatment, the world has easily warmed up to the idea of abandoning most of the cherished societal (or liberal) values - such as those of liberty or free movement and the like – in order to uphold just the value of ‘survival’.
he cannot be appropriated by a single discourse, let alone by postcolonialism. His works,
when keenly examined, transcend postcolonial thinking. The re-examination of Tagore’s
views and ideas, on the other hand, hold immense value for the current political discourse of
nationalism and democracy in India.
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Mostly established, and sustained, with the support of the tertiary sector and the IT industry, these ‘new towns’ are essentially advertised as city-spaces for a particular class of citizens, predominantly with the element of gated communities and valorisation of white-collar workers. Even though a considerable size of informal labour force may exist in new towns, the presence of the informal labour is seen as something ‘dirty’ that ought to be rendered invisible. These emergent new towns also have convenient labour and municipal laws that restrict the presence of the informal sector in the streets. These aspects altogether add to the precarity of the informal labour population in new towns and are pushed even further towards the margins of legality in such spaces. As such, this paper aims to interrogate the nuances in labour forms that surfaces in such satellite cities, capture the linkages (or any form of correlation) between the emergence of new towns in the peripheries of metropolitan cities and the informal labour residing in them.
This paper aims to locate the labour dimension in Electronics City Industrial Township in Karnataka where all the essential services and decision-making regarding the essential services are provided through a privatised administration. The Electronics City Industrial Township is a part of the turn towards smart cities in contemporary urban governance discourse that stresses on solutions, services and provision of infrastructure via digital technologies. The core element of this technology-driven urban governance is to emphasise high-tech sectors as engines for urban economies, concomitantly exhibiting a proclivity to reinterpret urban challenges as technological problems to be solved by technological solutions. Aided by AI-based mechanism, the Electronics City Industrial Township Authority (ELCITA) hosts, governs and monitors a vast number of tech companies that provide a mix of IT and manufacturing services, with minimal involvement of any government entities.
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this paper aspires to investigate if the hard-earned moments of liberation after the stupendous struggles for the independence in 1947 and other liberation feats such as affirmative action for the Dalits are a mirage; that if such feats were merely void in essence, their significance considered to be unworthy, deemed fit only to be relegated to the garbage bin of historical advances. At first glance, such claims would be appalling to most people. However, one might find substance in the said statements if one takes a keener look.
outbreak.
Panic has gripped most of the world as countries have shut down their nations and borders. In the absence of a vaccine and any guaranteed treatment, the world has easily warmed up to the idea of abandoning most of the cherished societal (or liberal) values - such as those of liberty or free movement and the like – in order to uphold just the value of ‘survival’.
he cannot be appropriated by a single discourse, let alone by postcolonialism. His works,
when keenly examined, transcend postcolonial thinking. The re-examination of Tagore’s
views and ideas, on the other hand, hold immense value for the current political discourse of
nationalism and democracy in India.
Mostly established, and sustained, with the support of the tertiary sector and the IT industry, these ‘new towns’ are essentially advertised as city-spaces for a particular class of citizens, predominantly with the element of gated communities and valorisation of white-collar workers. Even though a considerable size of informal labour force may exist in new towns, the presence of the informal labour is seen as something ‘dirty’ that ought to be rendered invisible. These emergent new towns also have convenient labour and municipal laws that restrict the presence of the informal sector in the streets. These aspects altogether add to the precarity of the informal labour population in new towns and are pushed even further towards the margins of legality in such spaces. As such, this paper aims to interrogate the nuances in labour forms that surfaces in such satellite cities, capture the linkages (or any form of correlation) between the emergence of new towns in the peripheries of metropolitan cities and the informal labour residing in them.
This paper aims to locate the labour dimension in Electronics City Industrial Township in Karnataka where all the essential services and decision-making regarding the essential services are provided through a privatised administration. The Electronics City Industrial Township is a part of the turn towards smart cities in contemporary urban governance discourse that stresses on solutions, services and provision of infrastructure via digital technologies. The core element of this technology-driven urban governance is to emphasise high-tech sectors as engines for urban economies, concomitantly exhibiting a proclivity to reinterpret urban challenges as technological problems to be solved by technological solutions. Aided by AI-based mechanism, the Electronics City Industrial Township Authority (ELCITA) hosts, governs and monitors a vast number of tech companies that provide a mix of IT and manufacturing services, with minimal involvement of any government entities.