Urbanizing Citizenship
Contested Spaces in Indian Cities
Edited by:
- Renu Desai - Centre for Urban Equity, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India
- Romola Sanyal - London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
December 2011 | 260 pages | SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
Urbanizing 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.
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.
James Holston
Foreword
| 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 |
Index
[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.