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OverviewThe Dharavidistrict, best known from Slumdog Millionaire, is one of Asia's largest slums wherenearly one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of governmentland. Liza Weinstein draws on a decade of work, including more than a year of researchin Dharavi, to explain how the slum has persisted for so long, achieving a precariousstability. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Liza Weinstein , Liza Weinstein , Randolph Vigne , Charles LittletonPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Volume: 23 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.249kg ISBN: 9780816683109ISBN 10: 0816683107 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 28 June 2014 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents PrefaceAbbreviations Introduction: A Mansion in the Slum1. Becoming Asia’s Largest Slum2. State Interventions and Fragmented Sovereignties3. From Labor to Land: An Emerging Political Economy4. Political Entrepreneurship and Enduring Fragmentations5. The Right to Stay PutConclusion: Precarious Stability AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndexReviewsThere remains a dearth of rigorous and creative monographs that present a sound analysis of urbanism and urban processes in Indian cities. The Durable Slum clearly fills this gap. In particular, Mumbai, often the subject of popular writing, does not have an iconic academic monograph that provides insights into the workings of the city. This is such a text. Liza Weinstein's work presents the sociological research and analysis that can transform the megaslum from a horizon of popular imagination into a field of inquiry. Ananya Roy, University of California, Berkeley There remains a dearth of rigorous and creative monographs that present a sound analysis of urbanism and urban processes in Indian cities. The Durable Slum clearly fills this gap. In particular, Mumbai, often the subject of popular writing, does not have an iconic academic monograph that provides insights into the workings of the city. This is such a text. Liza Weinstein's work presents the sociological research and analysis that can transform the megaslum from a horizon of popular imagination into a field of inquiry. --Ananya Roy, University of California, Berkeley An important addition to the work being done on urban poverty. Economic and Political Weekly [The Durable Slum] is a significant contribution to the literature on urban transformations and the durability of low-income residents and their settlements. Pacific Affairs The Durable Slum not only adds to the scholarship on the political economy of Dharavi, but through analysis of the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) also forms an important contribution to the question of how poor, seemingly-powerless slum populations respond to the totalising forces of global capital, and how they manage to stay put . South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies Weinstein has produced a noteworthy book, which reminds us of the importance of long-term research in grasping the entangled and locally varying facets of urban processes. disP= The Planning Review The Durable Slum is well worth reading and teaching and provides novel insights that apply to urban contexts near and far, domestic and international. Social Forces The Huguenot Society of Great Britain should be praised for its considerable efforts in organizing this important symposium . . . excellent contributions from Patrick Collinson, Jeannine E. Olson, Hugh Trevor-Roper, and J. B. Trim to mention but a few. -- Albion Author InformationLiza Weinstein is assistant professor of sociology at Northeastern University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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