The existence of slums or informal settlements is familiar to most cities in developing countries. In India, slums contain a wealth of diversity masked by high poverty and insufficient access to resources. Recent studies have identified that the conventional perception of slums as distinctive homogenous settlements is incorrect. Instead, slums are diverse and complex systems that cannot be addressed through one-size fits all approaches. In this archive, I explore group segregation and how it reproduces or reinforces inequality within the slums of South Bengaluru. In the Documentary section, you'll find the various interviews, views of these slums, and analysis of the research work. For the Research Work, I've applied Tilly's theory of group segregation and statistical techniques (correspondence analysis and regression) to novel field data from 6 slums in South Bengaluru. Second, I explored that segregation leads to opportunity bias among slum dwellers, which inhabits equitable access to jobs in the labour market. The archive entails five pages apart from the home page, which shall inform the viewers about the objectives and the research done.
The objective of the archive is to explore how dissociations based on religion, caste, language and occupation can lead to a hierarchy of spatial patterns in slums. A couple of interviews in Documentaries could also help in exploring how these various group identities lead to the isolation of one group from the other.
The archive aims at informing the urban masses about how the conceptualisation of poverty continues to be dominated by the challenges of measuring it. The existence of poverty between formal and informal settlements might raise questions if slums acting as a stand-in for analysing and representing poverty in the city of Bengaluru.
The Documentary section also has a compiled video made during the research work, titled "The Roads not Taken in Bengaluru." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_bbzrNIWf4