UID:
almafu_9959244868602883
Format:
1 online resource (261 p.)
ISBN:
81-321-1957-6
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1-283-42244-1
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9786613422446
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81-321-0933-3
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 - Introduction: Urbanizing Citizenship: Contested Spaces in Indian Cities; PART I: Governance and Citizenship in the Neoliberal City; 2 - Entrepreneurial Urbanism in the Time of Hindutva: City Imagineering, Place Marketing, and Citizenship in Ahmedabad; 3 - Democratic Urban Citizenship and Mega-project Development in Globalizing Mumbai; 4 - The Politics of Persuasion: Gendered Slum Citizenship in Neoliberal Mumbai
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5 - Reengineering Citizenship: Municipal Reforms and the Politics of 'e-Grievance Redressal' in Karnataka's CitiesPART 2: Protest and Claims-making in the Indian City; 6 - Clean Air, Dirty Logic?: Environmental Activism, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere in Delhi; 7 - Who Operates and Who Agitates?: A Class-wise Investigation of Contentious Action and Citizenship in Varanasi, India; 8 - Linking Urban Vulnerability, Extralegal Security,and Civil Violence: The Case of the Urban Dispossessed in Mumbai; 9 - Displaced Borders: Shifting Politics of Squatting in Calcutta
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Afterword: In Other Words: The Indian City and the Promise of CitizenshipAbout the Editors and Contributors; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 81-321-0730-6
Language:
English
