Urbanizing Citizenship : Contested Spaces in Indian Cities
ISBN: 9788132107309 | 8132107306
Format: HardcoverPublisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
Pub. Date: 12/16/2011
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Urbanizing Citizenship provokes a critical discussion on urbanism(s) in India using urban citizenship as a lens of interrogation. Bringing together an interdisciplinary and emerging group of scholars working on India, this book looks at six cities-Ahmedabad, peri-urban Bangalore, Calcutta, Delhi, Mumbai and Varanasi-and examines a range of processes: urban renewal, participatory slum resettlement, municipal reforms, city imagineering, urban environmentalism, squatting policies, urban protest and civil violence. Collectively, the chapters interr... MORE
| List of Tables and Figures | p. vii |
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
| Introduction: Urbanizing Citizenship: Contested Spaces in Indian Cities | p. 1 |
| Governance and Citizenship in the Neoliberal City | |
| Entrepreneurial Urbanism in the Time of Hindutva: City Imagineering, Place Marketing, and Citizenship in Ahmedabad | p. 31 |
| Democratic Urban Citizenship and Mega-project Development in G... MORE | p. 58 |
| The Politics of Persuasion: Gendered Slum Citizenship in Neoliberal Mumbai | p. 82 |
| Reengineering Citizenship: Municipal Reforms and the Politics of 'e-Grievance Redressal' in Karnataka's Cities | p. 109 |
| Protest and Claims-making in the Indian City | |
| Clean Air, Dirty Logic? Environmental Activism, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere in Delhi | p. 135 |
| Who Operates and Who Agitates? A Class-wise Investigation of Contentious Action and Citizenship in Varanasi, India | p. 161 |
| Linking Urban Vulnerability, Extralegal Security, and Civil Violence: The Case of the Urban Dispossessed in Mumbai | p. 190 |
| Displaced Borders: Shifting Politics of Squatting in Calcutta | p. 212 |
| Afterword: In Other Words: The Indian City and the Promise of Citizenship | p. 229 |
| About the Editors and Contributors | p. 237 |
| Index | p. 240 |
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