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This final movement explores whether thinking with re‐arrangements can help us account for that which is hidden, unseen or nested in the recesses and folds of urban practices. And if so, how we might then talk about and account for elusive parts of an arrangement that both exert an influence and are influenced. This essay uses sensibilities as an entry point into the intangible interactions between subjects and (re)arrangements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent studies have reconceptualized infrastructure as comprising both material and social processes, thus offering insights into lived experiences, governance, and socio-spatial reordering. More specific attention to infrastructure's temporality has challenged its supposed inertia and inevitable completeness, leading to an engagement with questions of the dynamics of infrastructure over different phases of its lifespan, and their generative effects. In this paper, we advance these debates through a focus on the processes of decay, maintenance, and repair that characterize such phases of infrastructural life, by exploring how specific infrastructures are materially shaped by, and shape, social, political, and socio-ecological arrangements. Our intervention has two related aims: first, to conceptualize decay, maintenance, and repair as both temporal phases of infrastructure's dynamic materiality and its specific affective conditions; second, to trace how these phases of infrastructural life rework embodied labor, differentiated citizenship, and socio-ecological relations. We argue that attention to infrastructure's "temporal fragility" elucidates the articulation between everyday capacities and desires to labor, the creation of and demands made by political constituents, and the uneven distribution of opportunities and resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I examine how linguistic tropes that emerged during ethnographic fieldwork in a Delhi resettlement colony both capture and reaffirm the experiences of forced eviction and marginalization on the urban periphery. By analyzing the urban subjectivities embedded in recurrent metaphors, I explore how people 'make sense' of dispossession and ultimately, articulate their 'place' in the city. Drawing on Lakoff and Johnson (1980, Metaphors We Live By; 1999, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought), I argue that the utilization of metaphors in everyday language influences how people structure their relationships-with the state, with other residents of the resettlement colony, and with the city itself-and captures the pervasive uncertainty of resettlement. Unpacking such metaphors as 'guides' to thought and practice can contribute to theories on spaces of insecurity and performativity of the marginalized in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the study which examines the local civil laws and the legal protection they offer for teens in cases of intimate partner abuse. The researchers have found that some states have vague laws that require parental involvement in most cases and do not recognize dating violence as a form of intimate partner violence. However, they believe that amendments to these laws can be made to protect underaged victims which they think can increase safety for victims and promote behavior change among teenager abusers.