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SUMMARY:The Intimate City: Violence\, gender\, and ordinary life in Delhi 
 slums - Ayona Datta (University of Leeds)
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DESCRIPTION:In this paper I use the notion of the intimate city to examine
  how violence as symbolic\, material\, embodied and structural becomes an 
 ‘ordinary’ aspect of everyday life in Delhi slums. In particular I am 
 interested in how an intimate governmentality of the state is reworked int
 o intimate gender relationships in this slum\, and how this in turn provid
 es a space to its residents to argue for a ‘right to intimacy’ as a ri
 ght to the city. To do this I focus on the slum as the ‘intimate city’
  a space  where a violence of law\, urban development and intimacy are wov
 en into its material and everyday conditions\, where violence is domestica
 ted and rendered as part of the everyday through what Veena Das calls a 
 ‘descent of violence into the realm of the ordinary’. I argue that int
 imate lives of slum residents living in an exclusionary city challenges th
 e constructed divisions between public and private\, rural and urban\, tra
 dition and modernity\, spectacular and ordinary\, by calling into attentio
 n how gendered agency manifests not by entering the public realm\, but by 
 normalizing intimate sexualized violence across public and private realms.
LOCATION:Room SG1 of the Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, CB39DT\, 
 Cambridge
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