Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi
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- Synopsis
- This insightful volume examines the politics andcontestations around urban space in India's national capital, Delhi. Movingbeyond spectacular megaprojects and sites of consumption, this book engageswith ordinary space and everyday life. Sites and communities analysed in thisvolume reveal the processes, relations, and logics through which the city'sgrand plans are executed. The contributors argue that urbanization isnegotiated and muddled, particularly in the spaces occupied by informal labour,resettled communities, and small-scale investors. The critical analyses in thisvolume shed light on the disjunctures between planning and ideology, narrativesof growth and realities of immobility, and facades of modernity and the spacesand practices produced in its pursuit. The book is organized in four parts -(I) Dis/locating Bodies, (II) Claims at the Urban Frontier, (III)Informalization and Investment, and (IV) Gendered Mobility. The studies reportcurrent empirical work from a variety of sites, investigating the dynamics ofcapital investment, state planning and citizen response in these spaces. Thesestudies, set in ordinary spaces in Delhi, reveal a subliminal disarray ofthought and action, stemming from the impetus to make the city attractive tocapital, while having to manage marginality and reorganize welfare functions. The volume provides fresh insights into the nature of urban planning andgovernance in an Indian megacity two decades after the neoliberal shift.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9788132221548
- Publisher:
- Springer India, New Delhi
- Date of Addition:
- 10/13/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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