★(유)Spaces of Colonialism:Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities

 

Legg, Stephen.

Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities

Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

 

 

1 Imperial Delhi 1
    Security, Territory, Population 2
       Governmental rationalities 2
       Limits of governmentality 14
    Colonial Governmentality 20
       The spatial differences of colonial governmentality 20
       The temporal differences of colonial governmentality 25
    New Delhi: Showcase of Sovereignty 28
       A case for urban regicide? Beyond the capital 30
       The tombstone of the Raj? 33

2 Residential and Racial Segregation: ASpatial Archaeology 37
    Archaeology 38
       Colonial Spaces of Dispersion 41
   The Spatial Administration of Precedence 43

       Visualisation: Objects of imperial discourse 43
       Identity: Grids of specification 48
       The conceptual landscape 54
   The Spatial Dissolution of Order 59
       Problematisation: Spaces and subjects of dissension 59
       Identities: Enunciative modalities 66
       Re-visioning the conceptual landscape 75

3 Disciplining Delhi 82
    New Delhi: Policing the Heart of Empire 83
       Policing: From government to discipline 83
       Policing the capital 85
       The Keep: Protecting the core 90
       Picket and patrol: Protecting the glacis 94
    Anti-colonial Nationalism and Urban Order 96
       Sovereignty, law and discipline 97
       Identity: Civil Lines 99
       Visibility: Disciplined space 101
       Techne of discipline: Towards a ‘moral effect’ 103
       Problematisations 111
    ‘Religious Nationalism’ and Urban Diagrams 119
       Diagrams, communalism and policing festivals 119
       Sketches of urban order: 1886–1923 122
       From urban violence to the CRS: 1924–34 125
       Diagrams through festivals: 1936–46 135

4 Biopolitics and the Urban Environment 149
    Population Expansion and Urban Disorder 149
       Domains of government 149
       Planning without vision 151
       The disease of darkness: Tuberculosis and failing urban technologies 156
       The ‘Delhi Death Trap’: Problematising urban governance 159
    Congestion Relief, Calculation and the ‘Intensity Map’ 164
       Visualisation, the intensity map and the imperial ethos 164
       The improvement techne 174
       ongoing problematisations 181

 

     The Western Extension, Protest and Failed Relief 183
        Administrative deadlock and the call for expansion: 1912–36 183
        Improving the Western Extension: 1937–47 187
     Slum Clearance and the Strictures of Imperial Finance 190
        The Delhi–Ajmeri Gate Slum Clearance Scheme 190
        ‘A tale of two cities’: Delhi’s aesthetic and political landscape 193
        Imperial finances and local resistance 200
        Re-housing and welfare biopolitics 204

5 Conclusions: Within and Beyond the City 210
     Interlinked Landscapes of Ordering 211
         Practised connections 211
         Analytical connections 212
     Beyond Colonial Delhi 216
         Space 216
         Time 218