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Weathering the Urban
Exploring the material implications of climate imaginaries for urban future-making
As climate change poses a new existential and epistemological crisis, many have now turned to the future to look into ways to imagine and foster an alternative to the current methods of doing business as usual. Alongside this steady rise of attention towards future/futuring and imaginaries, attention has also been paid to matter and materiality within the broader social sciences. In this paper, we explore the material implications of urban climate imaginaries as sites of weathering in the context of urban planning. This paper has two objectives: first, to extend the understanding of mediation performed by materialities of climate imaginaries as embodied and situated and second, to illustrate the implications of this conceptual advancement for urban future-making. For this, we build on Machen, Davoudi, and Brooks (2023) to conceptualise materialities of climate imaginaries as normalising, circulating and producing climate imaginaries, thereby forefronting structural inequality inherent in its mediation. We further this discussion to situate embodied encounters of the climate as rooted in the mediation performed by materialities of climate imaginaries. For this, we borrow from feminist theoretical lens of weathering to understand the inseparability of structural inequalities from the bodily experiences of weather challenges dominant climate imaginaries. By doing so, we can understand the role of materialities of climate imaginaries as actively mediating or weathering situated weather relations of bodies. We demonstrate the implications of this re-framing in the context of participatory planning by extending the 3A3 framework of participation (Hofer and Kaufmann 2023). By doing so, we demonstrate the inter-implicated nature of planning for the future, where practitioner activities materialise and shape embodied climatic encounters. We illustrate the broader implications of understanding the materialities of climate imaginaries and possible future trajectories for researching the weathering effects of mediated climate imaginaries in the context of Machen, Davoudi, and Brooks (2023). Understanding climate imaginaries as sites of weathering allows us to deconstruct the complex web of enmeshed weathering activities that make the weather different for diverse bodies, reconceptualising future-making as bound in the present and the past. This paper thus offers a critical lens to account for embodied and materially situated ontologies for advancing justice-centred planning interventions for the future.
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As climate change poses a new existential and epistemological crisis, many have now turned to the future to look into ways to imagine and foster an alternative to the current methods of doing business as usual. Alongside this steady rise of attention towards future/futuring and imaginaries, attention has also been paid to matter and materiality within the broader social sciences. In this paper, we explore the material implications of urban climate imaginaries as sites of weathering in the context of urban planning. This paper has two objectives: first, to extend the understanding of mediation performed by materialities of climate imaginaries as embodied and situated and second, to illustrate the implications of this conceptual advancement for urban future-making. For this, we build on Machen, Davoudi, and Brooks (2023) to conceptualise materialities of climate imaginaries as normalising, circulating and producing climate imaginaries, thereby forefronting structural inequality inherent in its mediation. We further this discussion to situate embodied encounters of the climate as rooted in the mediation performed by materialities of climate imaginaries. For this, we borrow from feminist theoretical lens of weathering to understand the inseparability of structural inequalities from the bodily experiences of weather challenges dominant climate imaginaries. By doing so, we can understand the role of materialities of climate imaginaries as actively mediating or weathering situated weather relations of bodies. We demonstrate the implications of this re-framing in the context of participatory planning by extending the 3A3 framework of participation (Hofer and Kaufmann 2023). By doing so, we demonstrate the inter-implicated nature of planning for the future, where practitioner activities materialise and shape embodied climatic encounters. We illustrate the broader implications of understanding the materialities of climate imaginaries and possible future trajectories for researching the weathering effects of mediated climate imaginaries in the context of Machen, Davoudi, and Brooks (2023). Understanding climate imaginaries as sites of weathering allows us to deconstruct the complex web of enmeshed weathering activities that make the weather different for diverse bodies, reconceptualising future-making as bound in the present and the past. This paper thus offers a critical lens to account for embodied and materially situated ontologies for advancing justice-centred planning interventions for the future.
Bound to Labour
The Cyclical Burden of Wages and Time Poverty on Female Domestic Workers
Journal article
(2022)
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Aditi Natarajan, Malavika Rangarajan
With a surge in student and white-collar population, Pune has attracted migrant labourers to meet the demand for domestic work. This paper attempts to understand the lives of part-time female domestic workers in the Viman Nagar neighbourhood. It explores the current market conditions of domestic work by examining the wage trends and perceived negotiating power among respondents. By utilising the time-use surveys, it examines the time distribution of a female domestic worker’s day, and the resultant time poverty experienced due to the multiple shifts of domestic work. Delineating these two dimensions, this paper analyses the power relations that underpin interactions of the private and public realms within the informal sector. It further attempts to critique the gendered consequences of being a migrant domestic worker in a highly unregulated market space.
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With a surge in student and white-collar population, Pune has attracted migrant labourers to meet the demand for domestic work. This paper attempts to understand the lives of part-time female domestic workers in the Viman Nagar neighbourhood. It explores the current market conditions of domestic work by examining the wage trends and perceived negotiating power among respondents. By utilising the time-use surveys, it examines the time distribution of a female domestic worker’s day, and the resultant time poverty experienced due to the multiple shifts of domestic work. Delineating these two dimensions, this paper analyses the power relations that underpin interactions of the private and public realms within the informal sector. It further attempts to critique the gendered consequences of being a migrant domestic worker in a highly unregulated market space.