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Author: Swetha Rao Dhananka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-03
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1108484263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study that maps India's political opportunities and closures for claim making in general and housing grievances in particular.
Author: Swetha Rao Dhananka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-03
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1108633811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding adequate housing in an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge of current times. This book puts together a compelling story based on fine-grained analysis of housing processes, as lived by slum-dwellers and their voice-bearers. It situates the lived experience of claiming adequate housing within informal transactions and negotiations of patronage networks vis-à-vis the formal institutional opportunities and closures of Indian democracy. In doing so, this research extends an innovative array of conceptual and methodological tools to grasp the context in which housing claims succeed and fail. This book contributes by responding to critical areas of social movement scholarship and by displaying community engagements and tactical strategies to bring about transformative change to claim adequate housing and resist co-opting forces for socially sustainable housing futures.
Author: Joop de Wit
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 131546215X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the informal (political) patronage relations between the urban poor and service delivery organisations in Mumbai, India. It examines the conditions of people in the slums and traces the extent to which they are subject to social and political exclusion. Delving into the roles of the slum-based mediators and municipal councillors, it brings out the problems in the functioning of democracy at the ground level, as election candidates target vote banks with freebies and private-sector funding to manage their campaigns. Starting from social justice concerns, this book combines theory and insights from disciplines as diverse as political science, anthropology and policy studies. It provides a comprehensive, multi-level overview of the various actors within local municipal governance and democracy as also consequences for citizenship, urban poverty, gender relations, public services, and neoliberal politics. Lucid and rich in ethnographic data, this book will be useful to scholars, researchers and students of social anthropology, urban studies, urban sociology, political science, public policy and governance, as well as practitioners and policymakers.
Author: Véronique Dupont
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1317557387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeeing urban politics from the perspective of those who reside in slums offers an important dimension to the study of urbanism in the global South. Many people living in sub-standard conditions do not have their rights as urban citizens recognised and realise that they cannot rely on formal democratic channels or governance structures. Through in-depth case studies and comparative research, The Politics of Slums in the Global South: Urban Informality in Brazil, India, South Africa and Peru integrates conceptual discussions on urban political dynamics with empirical material from research undertaken in Rio de Janeiro, Delhi, Chennai, Cape Town, Durban and Lima. The chapters engage with the relevant literature and present empirical material on urban governance and cities in the South, housing policy for the urban poor, the politics of knowledge and social mobilisation. Recent theories on urban informality and subaltern urbanism are explored, and the issue of popular participation in public interventions is critically assessed. The book is aimed at a scholarly readership of postgraduate students and researchers in development studies, urban geography, political science, urban sociology and political geography. It is also of great value to urban decision-makers and practitioners.
Author: Nandini Gooptu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-07-05
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 0521443660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNandini Gooptu's magisterial 2001 history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force.
Author: Robert Jan Baken
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-08
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1351770411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2003. Since independence in 1947, India has undergone a phase of rapid urbanization. New planning laws have been passed, new organizations established, public policy documents and discussion papers prepared and a host of land and housing schemes have been implemented. Still, however, the vast majority of urban expansion is an unplanned process that takes the form of squatting and illegal or semi-legal land subdivision. By looking in detail at two rapidly growing cities in Andhra Pradesh (Vijayawada and Viaskhapatnam) this book explores cultural, physical-spatial, political and economic determinants of the allocation of urban land and of urban growth in India in historical context. It focuses on the interplay between the government and the organizations in charge of their implementation, and the private sector on the other. Special attention is given to the conditions of the urban poor, with the changes in their socio-economic conditions.
Author: India. Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban India reports high incidence of poverty despite being hailed as a hub of growth and an instrument of globalization. Poverty figures for urban areas are higher compared to rural areas in a large number of states. This report looks at the process of globalization and development strategy in India to ask why poverty exists in urban areas and how the poor are being physically and economically absorbed in the system. It analyses the processes of urbanization, migration, changes in the structure of the economy, and the pattern of infrastructural investment with the aim of assessing their impact on the poor. Changes in urban governance, legal system, and the administrative structure have been reviewed to identify the problems faced by the poor and to focus on the systemic changes that need to be brought in. Thus it focuses on urbanization keeping poverty at the centre of analysis.
Author: Cedric D. J. Pugh
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Published: 1990-08-31
Total Pages: 326
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the possibility of developing practical and habitable low-income housing in India based on the implementation of three simple constructs: affordability, cost-recovery and replicability. In this context, Pugh argues for a shift in emphasis in housing policy from radical redevelopment to a system of feasible upgrading. He buttresses his argument by citing the success of various World Bank-aided projects in India. In the process of describing these new efforts, Pugh critically analyzes the Indian government's housing policy, the economics of reform and the failures of land policy in Delhi.
Author: Geert de Neve
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2007-01-24
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1135392161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the meaning of locality in urban India through studies of social, spatial and historical associations between peoples and places.
Author: Xuefei Ren
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-07-07
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0691203407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is urban about urban China and India? -- Land grabs and protests from Wukan to Singur -- Urban redevelopment in Guangzhou and Mumbai -- Airpocalypse in Beijing and Delhi -- Territorial and associational politics in historical perspective.
