Urban navigations : politics, space, and the city in South Asia /

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This book provides an important account of how the city in South Asia is produced, lived and contested. It examines the diverse lived experiences of urban South Asia through a focus on contestations over urban space, resources and habitation, bringing together accounts from India, Pakistan, Nepal an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro, McFarlane, Colin, 1979-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi : Routledge, 2011.
Colección:Cities and the urban imperative.
Temas:
City and town life > South Asia.
Cities and towns > South Asia > Social conditions.
Urbanization > South Asia.
Vie urbaine > Asie méridionale.
Villes > Asie méridionale > Conditions sociales.
Urbanisation > Asie méridionale.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Cities and towns > Social conditions
City and town life
Urbanization
Vie urbaine > Asie du Sud.
Villes > Asie du Sud > Conditions sociales.
Approvisionnement en eau > Asie du Sud.
Urbanisation > Asie du Sud.
Bidonvilles > Asie du Sud.
South Asia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : conceptualising the city in South Asia / Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Colin McFarlane
  • pt. 1. Contested landscapes. The nuisance of slums : environmental law and the production of slum illegality in India / D. Asher Ghertner ; Poverty as geography : motility, stoppage and circuits of waste in Delhi / Vinay Gidwani and Bharati Chaturvedi ; Shillong : the (un)making of a North-East Indian city? / Daisy Hasan ; The divided city? : squatters' struggle for urban space in Kathmandu / Urmi Sengupta ; Spectacular events, city spaces and citizenship : the commonwealth games in Delhi / Amita Baviskar
  • pt. 2. Infrastructures and materialities. The embeddedness of cost recovery : water reforms and associationism at Bangalore's fringes / Malini Ranganathan ; Ignoring power : knowing leakage in Mumbai's water supply / Nikhil Anand ; 'No horn please' : self-governance and sociality in Kathmandu housing colony / Andrew Nelson ; Gated communities as packaged fantasies : a meeting of the local and the global and the standardisation of taste in urban Sri Lanka / Sasanka Perera
  • pt. 3. Imaging the urban. Sri Lanka : terror, anxiety and the unstable nation : a physical biography of violence / Anoma Pieris ; City of lights : nostalgia, violence and Karachi's competing imaginaries / Huma Yusuf ; Sacrifice and dystopia : imagining Karachi through Edhi / Yasmin Jaffri and Oskar Verkaaik.

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