Swiping for Urban Safety: Transformation of City’s Public through the Delhi Metro

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علوم تطبيقية وتكنولوجية

الملخص

In 2019, the Delhi government proposed to make the metro and bus travel free for women in an attempt to enhance safety in public transportation. While the bus subsidy was rolled out, the public discourse fervently opposed the metro scheme and thereby denied access for ‘all’ women to its securitized space. Coincidentally, major political events during the time of this research – the anti-CAA citizens movement, communalized violence in NE Delhi, migrant crisis from Covid-19 lockdown– surfaced systemic disenfranchisement of other marginal groups. The question, which publics are ideal in the imagination of the metro and how do they experience its unprecedented world-class comfort, hence became central to this thesis. The research is based on an ethnography in the Delhi Metro, conversations with metro and bus users, online user surveys, interviews with metro officials and engagements with city politics. An analysis of the conflicting socio-spatial relations reveals that safety in the metro is comprised of contestation in the ubiquitous women’s coach, disciplining of Indian subjects and ‘othering’ of minority and precarious urban residents. I argue that the metro in its very formation is carved out of expulsions and is set up in a way that boundaries to accessing it can be multiplied- leading to re-configuration of the public and an erosion of our democratic engagement with public space. Thus, the innocuous act of swiping the metro card also reflects who has the power to enter its space; making the metro free would give access to all kinds of ‘unwanted’ bodies thereby rupturing the hegemonizing agendas central to the metro’s seemingly undisputable image. As ongoing projects based on the Delhi Metro will rapidly transform Indian cities, this work urges that we imagine safe spaces that do not normalize exclusionary processes and dare to include city’s diverse publics

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رقم الوثيقة

061b293a-3d88-40e1-bcf7-b412a238571a

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نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

نوع الملف

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061b293a-3d88-40e1-bcf7-b412a238571a_1.pdf

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الأمان في الحضر: تأثير مترو دلهي علي سكان المدينة

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English

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Swiping for Urban Safety: Transformation of City’s Public through the Delhi Metro

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كلمات الباحثين

Safety, Publics, World Class, Women, Delhi, Delhi Metro, Public Transportation, Expulsions, Safe Space

إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف

استريد لاي, مارتينا ريكر, يحيى سراج

الإعداد

مريدولا جارج

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