caa a22 4500 445846208 CHVBK 20180317145359.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10624-010-9199-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10624-010-9199-1 Bandyopadhyay Ritajyoti School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, India aut Politics of archiving: hawkers and pavement dwellers in Calcutta [Elektronische Daten] [Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay] In the last decade, several influential scholars have rigorously worked on the impact of neoliberal globalization on the poor in the cities of the South. But they have yet to provide a comprehensive account of how and why some groups in the margins are seen to successfully negotiate with the new modes of governing populations and increase their visibility as a "category,” while some groups fail to do so. This paper seeks to bridge this research gap by comparing a successful and a failed mobilization in Calcutta. In both cases, use of the footpath has been central. The paper shows how the success of the hawkers in claiming the footpath is tied to the marginalization of the claims of the pavement dwellers that has (a) homogenized the representation of the footpath as only used by pedestrians and hawkers and (b) led to the elision of the pavement dwellers as a governmental category. The paper argues that by arrogating to themselves an archival function—which is conventionally associated with the governmental state—sections of population like the hawkers can become successful in their negotiations with the government. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Hawkers nationallicence Pavement dwellers nationallicence Footpath nationallicence Democracy nationallicence Archive nationallicence Informal economy nationallicence Governmentaliy nationallicence Dialectical Anthropology Springer Netherlands 35/3(2011-09-01), 295-316 0304-4092 35:3<295 2011 35 10624 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-010-9199-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-010-9199-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bandyopadhyay Ritajyoti School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dialectical Anthropology Springer Netherlands 35/3(2011-09-01), 295-316 0304-4092 35:3<295 2011 35 10624 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer