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Animals and the Metro: Street Dogs and the Changing Conception of Urban SpacesAuthor: Shreedhar Manek Date: 2019-11-07 Report no: IIIT/TH/2019/112 Advisor:Radhika Krishnan AbstractStreet dogs are a ubiquitous reality in urban cities in India and are part of the everyday of urban dwellers navigating the city, whether to their liking or not. But this finds a strong exception in a relatively new form of urban transit—the metro system. This thesis examines metro systems in three Indian cities, Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad, to argue that the metro corporations assigned to build and maintain their respective metros exert an immense amount of control on its users, which also plays out negatively for nonhuman animals such as street dogs. This control is visible in its design choices and rules and regulations, which are anomalous in comparison to other public spaces. This thesis goes on to argue that the unique space that the metro has built in India is a reflection of a “modern” imagination of space, one that excludes nonhumans such as street dogs. Full thesis: pdf Centre for Exact Humanities |
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