Investigating Degenerated Peripheralization in Urban India: The Case of Water Supply Infrastructure and Urban Governance in Chennai
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Globalization is compressing the sequential spatial experience of environmental burdens in developing country cities through a process of space—time telescoping. With the introduction of neoliberal reform policies, Indian cities have also begun experiencing the effects of telescoped environmental burdens. A compelling theoretical perspective in this tradition suggests that large Indian cities now display a “degenerated peripheralization” whereby the experience of environmental burdens is becoming increasingly uneven between the urban core and its peripheries as a result of policy neglect. However, reliance on this theory overlooks how place-specific historical, social, and technical processes in the urban context often support a dynamic of active appropriation of resources from the periphery and core. Drawing on the histories of urban politicalization and the institutionalization of water supply infrastructure, this article will contextualize the process of peripheralization in the Indian metropolitan city of Chennai as an appropriative and exploitative one rather than a degenerated one.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it