000			01611nab a2200181 4500
003			OSt
005			20221003114407.0
007			cr aa aaaaa
008			220916b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
100			_aCoelho, Karen _953014
245			_aLines in the Mud: Tank Eco-restoration and Boundary Contestations in Chennai/
260			_aLondon, _bSage, _c2020.
300			_aVol 5, Issue 2, 2020: ( 121–139 p.)
520			_aThis article analyses the politics of environmentalism revealed in struggles over the land–water boundary of an urbanising tank in Chennai. In contesting this boundary, property-less settlers on its banks called into question the tank’s ‘nature’ and functions in its urban milieu, and demanded a redrawing of boundaries to reflect the socio-natural transformations that had turned parts of it into land. Simultaneously, propertied residents, in concert with state eco-restoration schemes and court rulings, fought to restore the tank to its ‘original’ dimensions. In foregrounding the liminalities of the urbanising tank, this article suggests the limits of the contemporary property-determined eco-restoration discourse, premised on a return to pristine pasts and original boundaries. It proposes that the stand-off between water body restoration and the defence of working-class housing rights necessitates recognising the tank as an artefact assembled over time by socio-technical and natural processes.
773	0		_012416 _916553 _dLondon: Sage Publication Ltd, 2019. _tUrbanisation / _x24557471
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/2455747120965508
942			_2ddc _cART
999			_c13033 _d13033