In the Public's Interest : Evictions, Citizenship, and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi /

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This book studies the recent legacy of basti "evictions" in Delhi--mass clearings of some of the city's poorest neighborhoods--as a way to understand how the urban poor are disenfranchised in the name of "public interest" and, in the case of Delhi, by the very courts meant t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bhan, Gautam (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urban poor.
Forced migration.
Equality.
City planning and redevelopment law.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Inde > Delhi.
Personnes deplacees dans leur pays > Inde > Delhi > Conditions sociales.
Urban poor > Legal status, laws, etc. > India > Delhi.
City planning and redevelopment law > India > Delhi.
Equality > India > Delhi.
Urban poor > India > Delhi.
Forced migration > India > Delhi.
Internally displaced persons > India > Delhi > Social conditions.
India > Delhi.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "how did we get here?"
  • Planned illegalities : the production of housing in Delhi 1947-2010
  • Planned development and/as crisis : evictions and the politics of governance in contemporary Delhi
  • Unmaking citizens : spatial illegality, urban citizenship and the challenges for inclusive politics
  • "You can't just walk into a court" : notes on the judicialisation of resistance
  • Concluding provocations : inquiries from the South
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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