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Urbanizing citizenship : contested spaces in Indian cities / edited by Renu Desai, Romola Sanyal.
Van Pelt Library HT147.I5 U753 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--India.
- Cities and towns.
- Urbanization--Social aspects.
- Urbanization.
- Forced migration.
- India.
- Cities and towns--Growth.
- Forced migration--India.
- Citizenship--India.
- Citizenship.
- Urbanization--Social aspects--India.
- India--Social conditions--21st century.
- Social conditions.
- India--Politics and government--21st century.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2012.
- Summary:
- In these papers from a one-day symposium held at the University of California-Berkeley, contributors in development studies, political science, environmental policy, and sociology explore urban citizenship in an Indian rather than Euro-American context. They analyze specific cases of conflict over urban spaces and resources in six Indian cities: Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, and Varanasi. The ethnographic case studies challenge assumptions that associate the middle classes with the exercise of rights and the powers of protest, and the lower classes with cooperation and patronage. Some specific paper topics include gendered slum citizenship, the politics of e-grievance redressal, the urban dispossessed and civil violence, and the politics of squatting. B&w photos are included. Desai is affiliated with the Center for Environmental Planning and Technology University's Center for Urban Equity, Ahmedabad, India. Sanyal teaches global urbanism at Newcastle University, UK. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- List of tables and figures
- Foreword / James holston
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: urbanizing citizenship : contested spaces in Indian cities / Renu Desai and Romola Sanyal
- Governance and citizenship in the neoliberal city
- Entrepreneurial urbanism in the time of Hindutva : city imagineering, place marketing, and citizenship in Ahmedabad / Renu Desai
- Democratic urban citizenship and mega-project development in globalizing Mumbai / Liza Weinstein
- The politics of persuasion : gendered slum citizenship in neoliberal Mumbai / Sapana Doshi
- Reengineering citizenship : municipal reforms and the politics of "e-grievance redressal" in Karnataka's cities / Malini Ranganathan
- Protest and claims-making in the Indian city
- Clean air, dirty logic : environmental activism, citizenship, and the public sphere in Delhi / Sunalini Kumar
- Who operates and who agitate? : a class-wise investigation of contentious action and citizenship in Varanasi, India / Jolie M.F. Wood
- Linking urban vulnerability, extralegal security, and civil violence : the case of the urban dispossessed in Mumbai / Jaideep Gupte
- Displaced borders : shifting politics of squatting in Calcutta / Romola Sanyal
- Afterword: in other words : the Indian city and the promise of citizenship / Janaki Nair
- About the editors and contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9788132107309
- 8132107306
- OCLC:
- 783148738
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