Urbanizing citizenship
Subtitle: contested spaces in Indian cities
By: edited by Renu Desai, Romola Sanyal
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9788132107309
Subjects: Politics and government; Urbanization; Growth; Citizenship; Social conditions; Cities and towns; Forced migration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of tables and figures; title: Foreword / James holston; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction: urbanizing citizenship : contested spaces in Indian cities / Renu Desai and Romola Sanyal; title: Governance and citizenship in the neoliberal city; title: Entrepreneurial urbanism in the time of Hindutva : city imagineering, place marketing, and citizenship in Ahmedabad / Renu Desai; title: Democratic urban citizenship and mega-project development in globalizing Mumbai / Liza Weinstein; title: The politics of persuasion : gendered slum citizenship in neoliberal Mumbai / Sapana Doshi; title: Reengineering citizenship : municipal reforms and the politics of "e-grievance redressal" in Karnataka's cities / Malini Ranganathan; title: Protest and claims-making in the Indian city; title: Clean air, dirty logic : environmental activism, citizenship, and the public sphere in Delhi / Sunalini Kumar; title: Who operates and who agitate? : a class-wise investigation of contentious action and citizenship in Varanasi, India / Jolie M.F. Wood; title: Linking urban vulnerability, extralegal security, and civil violence : the case of the urban dispossessed in Mumbai / Jaideep Gupte; title: Displaced borders : shifting politics of squatting in Calcutta / Romola Sanyal; title: Afterword: in other words : the Indian city and the promise of citizenship / Janaki Nair; title: About the editors and contributors; title: Index.