Talk:Colin McFarlane

By Rutvi Dattani

Colin McFarlane is Professor of Urban Geography at Durham University.

His research interests include urban living, densities, fragments, and learning across different cities, focussing in particular on the economic margins.

As per his bio and ResearchGate, he has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva.

In 2021, he along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications Related to India

• Mcfarlane, C. & Desai, R. (2015). Sites of entitlement: claim, negotiation and struggle in Mumbai. Environment and Urbanization. 27. 10.1177/0956247815583635
• Graham, S. & Desai, R. & Mcfarlane, C. (2015). Water wars in Mumbai. Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context. 61-85.
• McFarlane, C. (2008) Postcolonial Bombay: Decline of a Cosmopolitanism City? Society and Space. https://doi.org/10.1068%2Fdcos6
• Mcfarlane, C. & Desai, R. & Graham, S. (2014). Informal Urban Sanitation: Everyday Life, Poverty, and Comparison. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 104. 10.1080/00045608.2014.923718.
• Desai, R. & Mcfarlane, C. & Graham, S. (2014). The Politics of Open Defecation: Informality, Body, and Infrastructure in Mumbai. Antipode. 47. 10.1111/anti.12117.
• Mcfarlane, C. (2013). Metabolic inequalities in Mumbai: Beyond telescopic urbanism. City: analysis of urban trends. 17. 10.1080/13604813.2013.812354.
• Mcfarlane, C. (2012). From sanitation inequality to malevolent urbanism: The normalisation of suffering in Mumbai. Geoforum. 43. 1287–1290. 10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.08.005.
• Mcfarlane, C. (2006). Crossing Borders: development, learning and the North-South divide. Third World Quarterly. 27. 10.1080/01436590601027271.
• Mcfarlane, C. (2004). Geographical Imaginations and Spaces of Political Engagement: Examples from the Indian Alliance. Antipode. 36. 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00460.x.
• Tripathy, Priyam & Mcfarlane, Colin. (2022). Perceptions of atmosphere: Air, waste, and narratives of life and work in Mumbai. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 026377582211105. 10.1177/02637758221110574.
• Mcfarlane, C. & Silver, J. & Truelove, Y. (2016). Cities within cities: intra-urban comparison of infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town. Urban Geography. 38. 1-25. 10.1080/02723638.2016.1243386.
• McFarlane, C. (2008) Sanitation in Mumbai's Informal Settlements: State, ‘Slum’, and Infrastructure. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. https://doi.org/10.1068%2Fa39221
• McFarlane, C. (2008) Governing the Contaminated City: Infrastructure and Sanitation in Colonial and Post-Colonial Bombay. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32(2):415-435. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00793.x
• Anjaria, J. McFarlane C. (2016) Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia. Routledge Publications

References

• Colin McFarlane page on Durham University accessed August 26, 2022
• Colin McFarlane page on ResearchGate accessed August 26, 2022