Illegal City

The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an ''illegal'' squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as ''illegal'' citizens, ''encroachers'' and ''pickpockets'' of urban land, and have led to a spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book argues that in ...