Mahaul Kharab Hai: Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra
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Baithak Title: Mahaul Kharab Hai: Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra
Speaker: Dr. Mahima Taneja
Discussant: Dr Jigyasa Sogarwal
Historically, urban public spaces like bazaars, parks, and streets have been arenas of politics and mobilization—yet largely for men. Where, then, do women find opportunities for leisure, solidarity, chance encounter, or discursive politics, especially in small cities? This talk explores that question through an ethnographic case study of a low-income riverside settlement in Agra. Drawing on theories of affect, right to the city, and affective citizenship, it unpacks how the city’s ‘mahaul’ (or what can be translated as affective environment) is experienced by women as risky and kharab, shaped by circulating narratives of harassment, romance, and transgression. Yet, women carve out spaces of sociality and leisure by gathering on cots in courtyards, rooftops, and by-lanes—what the speaker calls the ‘enclosed outside’. By centring women’s vocabularies and embodied experiences of risk, respectability, and rest, the talk reimagines feminist urbanism and highlights the importance of local built forms for inclusive, gender-just urban planning.
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