ISBN:
9780203085332
Series Statement:
Cities and the Urban Imperative
Content:
This book provides an important account of how the city in South Asia is produced, lived and contested. It examines the diverse lived experiences of urban South Asia through a focus on contestations over urban space, resources and habitation, bringing together accounts from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. In contrast to accounts that attribute urban transformation mainly to neoliberal globalisation, this book vividly demonstrates how neoliberalism functions as one of the many drivers of urban change. This edited volume brings together an interdisciplinary and international range of estab
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction Conceptualising the City in South Asia; Part I: Contested Landscapes; 1. The Nuisance of Slums: Environmental Law and the Production of Slum Illegality in India; 2. Poverty as Geography: Motility, Stoppage and Circuits of Waste in Delhi; 3. Shillong: The (Un) Making of a North-East Indian City?; 4. The Divided City? Squatters' Struggle for Urban Space in Kathmandu; 5. Spectacular Events, City Spaces and Citizenship: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi
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Part II: Infrastuctures and Materialities6. The Embeddedness of Cost Recovery: Water Reforms and Associationism at Bangalore's Fringes; 7. Ignoring Power: Knowing Leakage in Mumbai's Water Supply; 8. 'No Horn Please': Self-Governance and Sociality in a Kathmandu Housing Colony; 9. Gated Communities as Packaged Fantasies: A Meeting of the Local and the Global and the Standardisation of Taste in Urban Sri Lanka; Part III: Imagining the Urban; 10. Sri Lanka: Terror, Anxiety and the Unstable Nation - A Physical Biography of Violence
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11. City of Lights: Nostalgia, Violence and Karachi's Competing Imaginaries12. Sacrifice and Dystopia: Imagining Karachi through Edhi; About the Editors; Notes on Contributors; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415617604
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138665026
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Urban navigations London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2011 ISBN 9780415617604
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Südasien
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Stadt
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DOI:
10.4324/9780203085332
