Arjun Kumar

My name is Arju Kumar; I am a PhD scholar at Jawaharlal University, New Delhi. My research is socio-psychological work using the ethnographic method; I am trying to understand the various forms of violence that manifest themselves in the Urban Poor neighbourhood, also known as Slums or JHUGGI, in Delhi. These Slums are not homogeneous categories as they appear from the surface; the complexity of caste, religions, linguistic and regional identities and occupation creates a problematic web of relations in which the intra and intersubjectivities take form. The process of becoming the subject or establishing a relationship with one's subjectivity is a violent one, not the physical violence, but the more subtle, invisibilized and normalized only seems to make sense when seen closely.