CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Mathew, Nikhil |
|---|---|
| Title | Gated settlements in a peripheral town of India ; A case study of Calicut |
| Summary | Calicut in southwest India is a peripheral metropolis city with low crime and violence against property and people. Last two decades witnessed a rise of gated communities. Calicut’s case presents a paradoxical challenge to the established critical urban studies scholarship theorizations on how Gated communities as a refuge against violent crimes and inter-community antagonisms. Based on the ethnographic fieldwork into the activities of the builder, architects, and home owners, I argue that gated communities in Calicut are latent products of architectural practice. It is an assimilation of international trends which are indeed creating a “hybrid spaces” to where people of the affluent urban classes are moving in, while securitization from crime moderate priority. The residential projects enclose people from different religion and caste with similar social, cultural and economic capital in community encloses. The case study contributes to understanding the urban practices and logic of affluent community building in peripheral cities of India in the global south. |
| Supervisor | Monterescu Daniel Benno Jacques , Naumescu Vlad |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/mathew_nikhil.pdf |
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