TDSR VOLUME XXXI NUMBER II 2020 7 Feature Articles Neoliberal Spatialities in Gurgaon: Privatization, Negotiation and Reciprocity in India ANAMICA SINGH, TATHAGATA CHATTERJI, AND HILDE HEYNEN Discussion of the emerging neoliberal urbanism in peri-urban regions of India typically provokes critical comments focused either on the dispossession of village peasants by processes of capital accumulation or the capacity of villagers to resist such processes. De- parting from both these perspectives, this article seeks to investigate a more hybrid case of neoliberal spatiality in the city of Gurgaon (Gurugram). Here, the attitudes of native land- owning villagers have evolved to accommodate a new landscape of neoliberal accumula- tion under mutually benefcial and negotiable conditions. The article seeks to uncover the network politics that exist between private developers and landowning villagers based on principles of reciprocity and negotiability in the co-production of neoliberal spatiality. Since the arrival of neoliberalism in India in the 1990s, the nature of the country’s urban transformations has dramatically changed. A pattern of instant urbanism has spread across the rural peripheries of metropolitan cities to accommodate new “spaces of fows” tied to global capital. 1 Today, special economic zones (SEZs), IT corridors, satellite town- ships, technology hubs, and other new-economy enclaves are being extensively promoted by politicians and urban state agencies and built by private developers through the con- version of peri-urban agricultural land. A marked urbanization of neoliberalization thus seems to be under construction, spatializing the economic imperatives of an ideology that rests on belief that “open, competitive, and unregulated markets . . . represent the optimal mechanism for socioeconomic development.” 2 Typically, this new urbanization is described in terms of capital accumulation based on the dispossession of the peasantry. However, this article aims to document and dis- Anamica Singh is a Ph.D. Scholar in the Department of Architecture at the University of Leuven, Belgium; Tagatha Chatterjee is a Professor in the Department of Urban Management and Governance at Xavier University of Bhubaneswar, India; Hilde Heynen is a Professor of Architecture Theory at the University of Leuven, Belgium.