ABSTRACT
In the last three decades, the city of Mumbai has been the site of drastic land transformations shaped by the forces of neo-liberal planning policies. Taking the case of the Koli fishing community in Mumbai, this chapter looks at the way recent changes in Coastal Zone Regulation (CZR) has affected their claims upon land and housing in the city. I attend to the material and visual ways in which identities are evoked in the absence of documentary evidence. In the process, I seek to show how identification and classification work within the framework of neo-liberal planning policies and the anxieties they produce as they unfold in an urban terrain.
