Urbanizing citizenship : contested spaces in indian cities
Desai, Renu Ed.
Urbanizing citizenship : contested spaces in indian cities - New Delhi Sage Pub. India Pvt. Ltd. 2012 - xiv,246p.
CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Vll
FOREWORD BY JAMES HOLSTON IX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii
1 Introduction: Urbanizing Citizenship: Contested Spaces in Indian Cities 1
Renu Desai and Romola Sanyal
Part 1: Governance and Citizenship in the Neoliberal City
2 Entrepreneurial Urbanism in the Time of Hindutva :
City Imagineering, Place Marketing, and Citizenship in Ahmedabad 31
Renu Desai
3 Democratic Urban Citizenship and Mega-project Development in Globalizing Mumbai 58
Liza Weinstein
4 The Politics of Persuasion: Gendered Slum Citizenship in Neoliberal Mumbai 82
Sapana Doshi
5 Reengineering Citizenship: Municipal Reforms and the
Politics of 'e-Grievance Redressal in Karnataka's Cities 109
Malini Ranganathan
Part 2: Protest and Claims-making in the Indian City
6 Clean Air, Dirty Logic? Environmental Activism, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere in Delhi 135
Sunalini Kumar
7 Who Operates and Who Agitates? A Class-wise Investigation of
Contentious Action and Citizenship in Varanasi, India 161
JolieM. F. Wood
8 Linking Urban Vulnerability, Extralegal Security, and Civil Violence: The
Case of" the Urban Dispossessed in Mumbai 190
Jaideep Gupte
9 Displaced Borders: Shifting Politics of Squatting in Calcutta 212
Romola Sanyal
10 Afterword : In Other Words: The Indian City and the Promise of Citizenship 229
Janaki Nair
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS 237
INDEX 240
9788132107309
307.760954 / DES
Urbanizing citizenship : contested spaces in indian cities - New Delhi Sage Pub. India Pvt. Ltd. 2012 - xiv,246p.
CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES Vll
FOREWORD BY JAMES HOLSTON IX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii
1 Introduction: Urbanizing Citizenship: Contested Spaces in Indian Cities 1
Renu Desai and Romola Sanyal
Part 1: Governance and Citizenship in the Neoliberal City
2 Entrepreneurial Urbanism in the Time of Hindutva :
City Imagineering, Place Marketing, and Citizenship in Ahmedabad 31
Renu Desai
3 Democratic Urban Citizenship and Mega-project Development in Globalizing Mumbai 58
Liza Weinstein
4 The Politics of Persuasion: Gendered Slum Citizenship in Neoliberal Mumbai 82
Sapana Doshi
5 Reengineering Citizenship: Municipal Reforms and the
Politics of 'e-Grievance Redressal in Karnataka's Cities 109
Malini Ranganathan
Part 2: Protest and Claims-making in the Indian City
6 Clean Air, Dirty Logic? Environmental Activism, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere in Delhi 135
Sunalini Kumar
7 Who Operates and Who Agitates? A Class-wise Investigation of
Contentious Action and Citizenship in Varanasi, India 161
JolieM. F. Wood
8 Linking Urban Vulnerability, Extralegal Security, and Civil Violence: The
Case of" the Urban Dispossessed in Mumbai 190
Jaideep Gupte
9 Displaced Borders: Shifting Politics of Squatting in Calcutta 212
Romola Sanyal
10 Afterword : In Other Words: The Indian City and the Promise of Citizenship 229
Janaki Nair
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS 237
INDEX 240
9788132107309
307.760954 / DES