Urban navigations : politics, space and the city in South Asia

By:

Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro Ed

Contributor(s):

McFarlane, Colin Ed

Series: Cities and the Urban Imperative Ed. by Sujata PatelPublication details: New Delhi Routledge 2011Description: xiii,347pISBN:

9780415617604

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

307.76 ANJ

Contents:

CONTENTS List of Tablesvii List of Figures ix List of Abbreviations xi Acknowledgements xiii Introduction Conceptualising the City in South Asia 1 Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Colin McFarlane Part I: Contested Landscapes 1. The Nuisance of Slums: Environmental Law and the Production of Slum Illegality in India 23 D. Asher Ghertner 2. Poverty as Geography: Motility, Stoppage and Circuits of Waste in Delhi 50 Vinay Gidwani and Bharati Chaturuedi 3. Shillong: The (Un) Making of a North-East Indian City? 79 Daisy Hasan 4. The Divided City? Squatters' Struggle for Urban Space in Kathmandu 105 Urmi Sengupta 5. Spectacular Events, City Spaces and Citizenship: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi 138 Amita Baviskar Part II: Infrastuctures and Materialities 6. The Embeddedness of Cost Recoveiy; Water Reforms and Associationism at Bangalore's Fringes 165 Malini Ranganathan 7. Ignoring Power: Knowing Leakage in Mumbai's Water Supply 191 Nikbil Anand 8. 'No Horn Plea.se': Self-Governance and Sociality in a Kathmandu Housing Colony 213 Andrew Nelson 9- Gated Communities as Packaged Fantasies; A Meeting of the Local and the Global and the Standardisation of Taste in Urban Sri Lanka 239 Sasanka Perera Part 10: Imagining the Urban 10. Sri Lanka: Terror, Anxiety and the Unstable Nation - A Physical Biography of Violence 267 Anoma Pieris 11. City of Lights: Nostalgia, Violence and Karachi's Competing Imaginaries 298 Huma Yusuf 12. Sacrifice and Dystopia: Imagining Karachi through Edhi 319 Yasmin Jaffri and Oskar Verkaaik About the Editors 338 Notes on Contributors 339 Index 342

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CONTENTS
List of Tablesvii
List of Figures ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction
Conceptualising the City in South Asia 1
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Colin McFarlane
Part I: Contested Landscapes
1. The Nuisance of Slums: Environmental Law and the
Production of Slum Illegality in India 23
D. Asher Ghertner
2. Poverty as Geography: Motility, Stoppage and Circuits
of Waste in Delhi 50
Vinay Gidwani and Bharati Chaturuedi
3. Shillong: The (Un) Making of a North-East Indian City? 79
Daisy Hasan
4. The Divided City? Squatters' Struggle for Urban Space
in Kathmandu 105
Urmi Sengupta
5. Spectacular Events, City Spaces and Citizenship:
The Commonwealth Games in Delhi 138
Amita Baviskar
Part II: Infrastuctures and Materialities
6. The Embeddedness of Cost Recoveiy; Water Reforms and
Associationism at Bangalore's Fringes 165
Malini Ranganathan
7. Ignoring Power: Knowing Leakage in Mumbai's
Water Supply 191 Nikbil Anand
8. 'No Horn Plea.se': Self-Governance and Sociality in a
Kathmandu Housing Colony 213 Andrew Nelson
9- Gated Communities as Packaged Fantasies; A Meeting of the Local and the
Global and the Standardisation of Taste in Urban Sri Lanka 239
Sasanka Perera
Part 10: Imagining the Urban
10. Sri Lanka: Terror, Anxiety and the Unstable Nation -
A Physical Biography of Violence 267 Anoma Pieris
11. City of Lights: Nostalgia, Violence and Karachi's
Competing Imaginaries 298 Huma Yusuf
12. Sacrifice and Dystopia: Imagining Karachi through Edhi 319
Yasmin Jaffri and Oskar Verkaaik
About the Editors 338
Notes on Contributors 339
Index 342

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