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OverviewIn the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In recent years, cities from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro have demolished similar slums, at times violently evicting their residents, to make way for development. But Dharavi and its residents have endured for a century, holding on to what is now some of Mumbai’s most valuable land. In The Durable Slum, Liza Weinstein draws on a decade of work, including more than a year of firsthand research in Dharavi, to explain how, despite innumerable threats, the slum has persisted for so long, achieving a precarious stability. She describes how economic globalization and rapid urban development are pressuring Indian authorities to eradicate and redevelop Dharavi—and how political conflict, bureaucratic fragmentation, and community resistance have kept the bulldozers at bay. Today the latest ambitious plan for Dharavi’s transformation has been stalled, yet the threat of eviction remains, and most residents and observers are simply waiting for the project to be revived or replaced by an even grander scheme. Dharavi’s remarkable story presents important lessons for a world in which most population growth happens in urban slums even as brutal removals increase. From Nairobi’s Kibera to Manila’s Tondo, megaslums may be more durable than they appear, their residents retaining a fragile but hard-won right to stay put. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Liza Weinstein , Liza WeinsteinPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Volume: 23 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.386kg ISBN: 9780816683093ISBN 10: 0816683093 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 01 April 2014 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. 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 AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndexReviewsAn important addition to the work being done on urban poverty. <i>Economic and Political Weekly</i></p> [The Durable Slum] is a significant contribution to the literature on urban transformations and the durability of low-income residents and their settlements. <i>Pacific Affairs</i></p> <i>The Durable Slum</i> 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 . <i>South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies</i></p> 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. <i>disP= The Planning Review</i></p> <i>The Durable Slum</i> is well worth reading and teaching and provides novel insights that apply to urban contexts near and far, domestic and international. <i>Social Forces</i></p> 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 This ambitious, fascinating ethnography clearly articulates how sex tourism in Bahia, Brazil, depends on the sexualized and racialized bodies of people of African descent. Erica Lorraine Williams makes a significant contribution by examining how sex tourism is both a racial and sexual project and how race is central to the commodification of culture. --Amalia L. Cabezas, author of Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic Author InformationLiza Weinstein is assistant professor of sociology at Northeastern University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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