内容摘要： 摘要：基于调查研究和民族志的采访，我们分析了印度首都新德里地区的两个低收入计划外定居点为争取住房和基础设施的斗争。我们认为，这两个不同地区不能被视为从乡村到城市的一个传统政治领导形式权威的简单的扩展。相反，在学习如何在城市环境中保障住房和基础设施的法律和官僚机构的制度过程中，出现了一些当地的领导人。这些社区中拥护民主政治治理结构揭示了法律、官僚机构、市场和民主动员的重叠的运作，通过其社会生活使得城市贫困长期化。我们不要求在印度民主制度为穷人做点什么，我们转移焦点去问，穷人如何通过和利用这些机构来工作从而给印度以民主的形式和实质呢？

Abstract: Abstract: Based on survey research and ethnographic interviews, we analyze struggles over housing and access to infrastructure in two low-income unplanned settlements in the National Capital Region of Delhi, India. We argue that political leadership in these two different areas cannot be regarded as a simple extension of traditional forms of authority from the village to the city. Rather, the local leaders emerge in the process of learning how to engage institutional processes of law and bureaucracy in an urban context to secure housing and infrastructure. The enfolding of structures of governance with democratic politics in these neighborhoods reveals the overlapping movements of law, bureaucracy, markets, and democratic mobilization through which social life is made durable for the urban poor. Instead of asking what democracy has done for the poor in India, we shift the focus to ask, how does the work that the poor perform through and with these institutions give form and substance to democracy in India?

作者：Das, Veena; Walton, Michael, 周学文(译)

来源： 《CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 卷: 56 增刊: 11 页: S44-S54》 2015年