contested spaces in Indian cities Desai, Renu 1975- Sanyal, Romola 1979- text bibliography cau Thousand Oaks, Calif SAGE 2012 monographic eng

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xiv, 246 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. List of tables and figures -- Foreword / James holston -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: urbanizing citizenship : contested spaces in Indian cities / Renu Desai and Romola Sanyal -- Governance and citizenship in the neoliberal 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 -- Reengineering citizenship : municipal reforms and the politics of "e-grievance redressal" in Karnataka's cities / Malini Ranganathan -- 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 agitate? : a class-wise investigation of contentious action and citizenship in Varanasi, India / Jolie M.F. Wood -- Linking urban vulnerability, extralegal security, and civil violence : the case of the urban dispossessed in Mumbai / Jaideep Gupte -- Displaced borders : shifting politics of squatting in Calcutta / Romola Sanyal -- Afterword: in other words : the Indian city and the promise of citizenship / Janaki Nair -- About the editors and contributors -- Index. edited by Renu Desai, Romola Sanyal. Includes bibliographical references and index. a-ii--- Cities and towns India Cities and towns Growth India Social conditions 21st century India Politics and government 21st century Forced migration India Citizenship India Urbanization Social aspects India HT147.I5 U753 2012 307.760954 9788132107309 (hard back) 2011045284 DLC 120530 20120306124914.0 17028446