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Metabolic inequalities in Mumbai

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In this piece, I argue that a focus on metabolic inequalities offers an important route away from the traps of 'telescopic urbanism' outlined by Ash Amin. Drawing on research in Mumbai, especially on sanitation and water, I position a 'metabolic lens' in contrast to a 'telescopic lens'. I argue that a focus on the networks of metabolic inequality by necessity takes us away from any separating out of a 'business' and 'human potential' city (and the attendant risks Amin warns of), and takes us instead through neighbourhoods and villages, municipal offices and corporate practices, pipes and irrigation, the political use of rainfall, and so on. Such a critical grounding demands a rejection of the elite coding of modernity's metabolisms and the production of an alternative metabolic politics at each stage of the network.

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  • Colin McFarlane, 2013. "Metabolic inequalities in Mumbai," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(4), pages 498-503, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:17:y:2013:i:4:p:498-503
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2013.812354
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    1. Andrew Harris, 2012. "The Metonymic Urbanism of Twenty-first-century Mumbai," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 49(13), pages 2955-2973, October.
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    1. Louise Guibrunet & Araceli Sánchez Jiménez, 2023. "The current and potential role of urban metabolism studies to analyze the role of food in urban sustainability," Journal of Industrial Ecology, Yale University, vol. 27(1), pages 196-209, February.

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