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OverviewUrbanizing 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 to the city. Through ethnographies and histories of the urban, this book unsettles theories generated in the Euro-American context to show how urban citizenship might be differently practiced, understood, and reconfigured within the Indian context. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Renu Desai , Romola SanyalPublisher: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd Imprint: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd Dimensions: Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.420kg ISBN: 9788132107309ISBN 10: 8132107306 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 16 November 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsForeword - James Holston Introduction: Urbanizing Citizenship-Contested Spaces in Indian Cities - Renu Desai and Romola Sanyal 1: GOVERNANCE AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE NEO-LIBERAL CITY Entrepreneurial Urbanism in the Time of Hindutva: City Imagineering, Place Marketing and Citizenship in Ahmedabad - Renu Desai Democratic Urban Citizenship and Mega-Project Development in Globalizing Mumbai - Liza Weinstein The Politics of Persuasion: Gendered Slum Citizenship in Neoliberal Mumbai - Sapana Doshi Re-Engineering Citizenship: Municipal Reforms and the Politics of ′e-Grievance Redressal′ in Karnataka′s Cities - Malini Ranganathan II: PROTEST AND CLAIMS-MAKING IN THE INDIAN CITY Clean Air, Dirty Logic? Environmental Activism, Citizenship and the Public Sphere in Delhi - Sunalini Kumar Who Operates and Who Agitates? A Class-Wise Investigation of Contentious Action and Citizenship in Varanasi, India - Jolie M F Wood Linking Urban Vulnerability, Extra-Legal Security and Civil Violence: The Case of the Urban Dispossessed in Mumbai - Jaideep Gupte Displaced Borders: Shifting Politics of Squatting - Romola Sanyal Afterword: In Other Words:The Indian City and the Promise of Citizenship - Janaki Nair IndexReviews[The book] traverses highly varied territory and presents descriptive and analytical accounts of events and experiences in different cities of India... Renu Desai and Romola Sanyal, the editors of this volume should be congratulated in undertaking what is obviously a daring enterprise. -- Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 47, 29 September 2012 Author InformationRenu Desai is Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Equity, CEPT University (Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University), Ahmedabad. She was formerly a Research Associate at Durham University, UK. She has a PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines the politics of urban development and citizenship in Ahmedabad, and focuses on the practices that constitute its postindustrial remaking as well as their intersections with the remaking of the city by Hindutva politics. She is also involved in a joint research project on the politics of sanitation and water in Mumbai’s informal settlements. Her research interests include urban informality, planning practices and new modes of urban governance, housing struggles, and questions around violence, identity, and urban space, particularly in India. Romola Sanyal is Lecturer in Global Urbanism at the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape, Newcastle University. She has a PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research explores the urbanization of refugee spaces with a particular focus on the Middle East and South Asia. She has published in journals such as Urban Studies, Social Identities and Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her doctoral dissertation and is also collaborating with other scholars as part of the Post-Conflict Environments Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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