Urbanizing citizenship: contested spaces in Indian cities
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Delhi Sage 2012
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Urbanizing Citizenship examines processes of urbanization in contemporary Indian cities through the lens of urban citizenship. It provides a fresh understanding of the multiple arenas and practices through which citizenship and urbanism are co-constituted in India. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars working on India, this book looks closely at six Indian cities-Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, and Varanasi-and examines a range of processes and contested urban spaces, thus exploring and analyzing their myriad implications for urban inhabitants and their right
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 246 pages)
ISBN:8132107306
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9788132107309
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