Urbanizing citizenship : contested spaces in Indian cities - Desai, Renu, 1975-; Sanyal, Romola, 1979- (Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2012)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Cities and towns -- India; Cities and towns -- Growth; Forced migration -- India; Citizenship -- India; Urbanization -- Social aspects -- India; India -- Social conditions -- 21st century; India -- Politics and government -- 21st century