Nuisance Talk and the Propriety of Property: Middle Class Discourses of a Slum‐Free Delhi
Nuisance Talk and the Propriety of Property: Middle Class Discourses of a Slum‐Free Delhi
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滋扰言论与财产的正当性：德里无贫民窟的中产阶级话语
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10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00956.x
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发表时间：
2012
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5
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D. Ghertner
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作者：
D. Ghertner
本文探讨了德里私人业主协会将贫民窟描述为不文明和“滋扰”区域的叙述。在追踪这种“令人讨厌的言论”如何进入大众和国家对城市空间的愿景并获得合法性的过程中，本文展示了话语在证明和实施排他性城市想象中的作用。作为一个通俗术语，“滋扰”被广泛用于识别审美不当的形式。但是，作为环境法的一个主要要素，滋扰作为一个包罗万象的类别在话语上运作，允许在环境福利和公共利益方面表达不同的私人不满。因此，贫民窟被广泛描述为滋扰地，重新划分了公共/私人的界限，将曾经当地的文明规范纳入公共生活的核心。通过考察业主协会、媒体和政府之间如何传播滋扰言论，本文揭示了贫民窟拆除如何被广泛解读为环境改善的一种形式。
This paper examines the narratives through which associations of private property owners in Delhi depict slums as zones of incivility and "nuisance." In tracing how this "nuisance talk" travels into and gains legitimacy in popular and state visions of urban space, the paper shows the role of discourse in justifying and enacting exclusionary urban imaginaries. As a lay term, nuisance is widely used to identify forms of aesthetic impropriety. But, as a primary element of environmental law, nuisance operates discursively as a catchall category allowing diverse private grievances to be expressed in terms of environmental welfare and the public interest. The widening depiction of slums as nuisances hence reworks the public/private divide, inserting once local codes of civility into the core of public life. By examining how nuisance talk circulates between property owners' associations, the media, and the government, the paper shows how slum demolitions have become widely read as a form of environmental improvement.