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Urbanizing Citizenship
Contested Spaces in Indian Cities
First Edition
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
Renu Desai and Romola Sanyal
1: GOVERNANCE AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE NEO-LIBERAL CITY
Renu Desai
Liza Weinstein
Sapana Doshi
Malini Ranganathan
II: PROTEST AND CLAIMS-MAKING IN THE INDIAN CITY
Sunalini Kumar
Jolie M F Wood
Jaideep Gupte
Romola Sanyal
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.