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This article reflects on the significance of an administrative boundary in producing distinctive forms of political assertion. It shows how acts of highlighting the ward boundaries of a marginal suburban ward in Mumbai illuminated an important scale of discriminatory spatial governance and also helped its residents organise and articulate a new politics of infrastructural need at a significant planning scale.

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Municipal ward organisation planning scale spatial injustice informal settlements Mumbai

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The Political Possibilities of an Administrative Boundary: How the Transforming M-Ward Project ‘Constructed’ the Ward

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