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“The organised encroachment of the powerful”—Everyday practices of public space and water supply in Dhaka, Bangladesh

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  • Kirsten Hackenbroch
  • Shahadat Hossain

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This paper investigates everyday struggles in claiming access to public space and water supply in a low-income settlement of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It looks at the rationality, processes and outcomes of informal negotiations. The empirical findings confirm the contested nature of access to public space and water supply and demonstrate how negotiations in an unbalanced power structure guarantee privileged access for a few local political leaders based on social and political relationships. This is at the cost of the exclusion of the majority. Such an “organised encroachment of the powerful” can be understood as an addition to Bayat's notion of a counter politics, the “quiet encroachment of the ordinary.” This paper advocates the need for complete understanding of context-specific power structures as this may help to reduce the threat of theoretical overgeneralisation and promote a more inclusive and just approach to urban planning.

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  • Kirsten Hackenbroch & Shahadat Hossain, 2012. "“The organised encroachment of the powerful”—Everyday practices of public space and water supply in Dhaka, Bangladesh," Planning Theory & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(3), pages 397-420.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rptpxx:v:13:y:2012:i:3:p:397-420
    DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2012.694265
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    1. David Lewis & Abul Hossain, 2022. "Local Political Consolidation in Bangladesh: Power, Informality and Patronage," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 53(2), pages 356-375, March.
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    5. David Jackman, 2019. "Violent Intermediaries and Political Order in Bangladesh," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 31(4), pages 705-723, September.
    6. Stephanie Butcher, 2021. "DIFFERENTIATED CITIZENSHIP: The Everyday Politics of the Urban Poor in Kathmandu, Nepal," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(6), pages 948-963, November.

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