https://metropolitics.org/ Favoriser les débats et confronter les savoirs et les savoir-faire sur la ville, l'architecture et les territoires. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://metropolitics.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH20/siteon0-bf96f.png?1760617828 https://metropolitics.org/ 20 144 https://metropolitics.org/On-the-Land-Question-in-India-The-Case-of-Sriperumbudur-Industrial-Region-in.html https://metropolitics.org/On-the-Land-Question-in-India-The-Case-of-Sriperumbudur-Industrial-Region-in.html 2025-12-23T06:00:00Z text/html en V. Gajendran India Global South land land use agriculture farming real estate real-estate turn periurban Chennai <p>Amidst intense demand for land, farmers near Chennai, India face dispossession by neglect. <br class='autobr' /> ---- Series: Provincializing the “Real-Estate Turn” My essay begins with a puzzle. The past two decades have been called the decades of intense land conflicts in India. There has been an outpouring of media and academic scholarship on agrarian landowners resisting and protesting the acquisition of their land for urban and infrastructure projects. In this context of land dispossession and opposition to</p> - <a href="https://metropolitics.org/-Essays-.html" rel="directory">Essays</a> / <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-India-+.html" rel="tag">India</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Global-South-+.html" rel="tag">Global South</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-land-420-+.html" rel="tag">land</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-land-use-2145-+.html" rel="tag">land use</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-agriculture-464-+.html" rel="tag">agriculture</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-farming-+.html" rel="tag">farming</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-real-estate-+.html" rel="tag">real estate</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-real-estate-turn-+.html" rel="tag">real-estate turn</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-periurban-+.html" rel="tag">periurban</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Chennai-+.html" rel="tag">Chennai</a> https://metropolitics.org/Provincializing-the-Real-Estate-Turn.html https://metropolitics.org/Provincializing-the-Real-Estate-Turn.html 2025-11-07T06:00:00Z text/html en Sai Balakrishnan & Llerena Guiu Searle South Africa real estate real-estate turn Focus Africa Asia Southeast Asia India United States Mumbai Chennai Pretoria Johannesburg <p>The papers in this collection “think against” the concept of real estate, starting with—and generating—grounded questions about particular places. <br class='autobr' /> ---- ▼ Jump to the list of articles in this series ▼ Standing in front of Trump Tower's gold and bronze facade in Lower Parel Mumbai (formerly Bombay), real estate may seem an inevitably global phenomenon. This sleek, American-style building—part of a gated complex with pools, gyms, gardens, and other upscale amenities—has come up in a district</p> - <a href="https://metropolitics.org/-Series-.html" rel="directory">Series</a> / <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-South-Africa-+.html" rel="tag">South Africa</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-real-estate-+.html" rel="tag">real estate</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-real-estate-turn-+.html" rel="tag">real-estate turn</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Focus-+.html" rel="tag">Focus</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Africa-+.html" rel="tag">Africa</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Asia-+.html" rel="tag">Asia</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Southeast-Asia-+.html" rel="tag">Southeast Asia</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-India-+.html" rel="tag">India</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-United-States-+.html" rel="tag">United States</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Mumbai-+.html" rel="tag">Mumbai</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Chennai-+.html" rel="tag">Chennai</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Pretoria-+.html" rel="tag">Pretoria</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-Johannesburg-+.html" rel="tag">Johannesburg</a>