SOCI W3324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Informal Sector

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Mumbai has a form of complacency with the informal space. Higher level state agents are either turning a blind eye, or helping create these. Regularize over time, helps avoid any particular housing crises. Illegal or new slums are not allowed to get water, but there is an extra layer of pipes that the state has no record of. Only the ground level engineer knows about these (problems when he retires) Undermines the ability to create actual infrastructure & services. Mumbai has a rational-legal bureaucratic state w/ colonialist & modernist roots, state elites aligned w/ corporate industry. Local elected leaders have very little formal influence on policy. Lower levels embedded in localized political networks & help organize access to state resources-- informal regulation (corruption-esque) This undermines the ability of the state to effectively govern. In order to maintain social control in the cities where many informal spaces take place, the state is forced into ad-hoc solutions.

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