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100 _aCoelho, Karen & Others Eds.
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245 _aParticipolis : consent and contention In neoliberal urban India
260 _aNew Delhi
_bRoutledge
_c2013
300 _avii,322p.
440 _aCities and the urban imperative Ed. by Sujata Patel
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505 _aContents ix Acknowledgements. ix Part I. Introduction: Politics and Citizenship in India’s New ‘Urban’ 1. Opening up or Ushering in? Citizen Participation as Mandate and Practice in Urban Governance Karen Coelho, Lalitha Kamath and M. Vijayabaskar 3 2. Outside Capital, Inside the Urban? Notes and Queries on the Politics of the Present Satish Deshpande. 34 Commentary 1. Permanence of the Temporary: Elite Utopia and Spatial Exclusion D. Ravikumar. 56 Part II. Participation, Privatisation and Politics: Case Studies from Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad 3. Financialised and Insurgent: The Dialectics of Participation in Bangalore’s Neoliberal Water Reforms Malini Ranganathan 65 4. From Watertight to Watered Down: The Case of Public Consultations and People’s Participation in Mumbai’s Water Distribution Improvement Project (WDIP) Zainab Bawa 89 5. Community Participation and Political Legitimacy: A Case Study from Hyderabad Anant Maringanti. 114 Commentary 2. Participation and Consultation in the Context of Municipal Infrastructure Financing K. Rajivan. 133 Commentary 3. City Infrastructure Development and the ‘Spectator Sport’ of Citizen Participation Vinay Baindur. 141 Part III. Class Claims: Civil Society and Split Citizenship in Urban India: Case Studies from Bangalore and Mumbai 6. Urban Reforms and the Middle Classes: Fragmented Collective Action and the Incomplete Project of Stakeholder Participation Lalitha Kamath and M. Vijayabaskar 151 7. Leveraging Mumbai: Global Finance, the State and Urban Politics Stephen J. Young. 174 Commentary 4. Visioning a World-class Slum-free Mumbai: Who Participates? Simpreet Singh. 195 Commentary 5. Middle-class Mobilisations: What Works Sebastian Devaraj. 199 Part IV. Democratisation, Decentralisation and Bhagidari: Case Studies from Delhi 8. Participation as a Support to Neo-populism? The Case of the Bhagidari Scheme Ste'phanie Tawa Lama-Rewal 207 9. RWAs and the Political Process in Delhi Diya Mehra. 222 Commentary 6. Middle-class Mobilisations, Urban Reforms, and the Politics of Bhagidari: Observations from New Delhi Lalit Batra. 240 Commentary 7. Direct Democracy versus Electoral Democracy: A View from Delhi K. T. Ravindran. 244 Part V. Anatomies of Consultative Processes: Case Studies from Chennai 10 Public Performances: Enacting Citizenship through Public Consultation for Chennai’s Second Master Plan Rowan Ellis 255 11. The Messy Practice of Participation: Lessons from the City Development Plan (CDP) Review in Chennai Nithya V. Raman. 276 Commentary 8. Consultations in Revising Chennai’s City Development Plan: Challenges and Insights M. G. Devasahayam. 298 Commentary 9. No Public in Public Consultations Nityanand Jayaraman. 302 Coda. Participolis: Protest and Participation in the City Amita Baviskar. 306 About the Editors. 310 Notes on Contributors. 311 Index 315
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