Marginalisation, Contestation, and Change in South Asian Cities
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This book approaches the city as a site of multiple contestations and contradictions and aims to highlight struggles over space, resources, identities, and meaning taking place within South Asian cities. It explores the ways in which the adoption of neoliberal models of development have impacted South Asian cities and their citizens, focusing on both Indian and Pakistani cities, highlighting similarities and differences in urban change on both sides of the border.

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This book approaches the city as a site of multiple contestations and contradictions and aims to highlight struggles over space, resources, identities, and meaning taking place within South Asian cities. It explores the ways in which the adoption of neoliberal models of development have impacted South Asian cities and their citizens, focusing on both Indian and Pakistani cities, highlighting similarities and differences in urban change on both sides of the border.
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Autorenporträt
Nida Kirmani is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), where she has been teaching since 2011. She served as a Research Fellow with the Religions and Development Research Programme at the University of Birmingham (2007-10) and has published widely on issues related to gender, Islam, women's movements, and development and urban studies in India and Pakistan. She completed her PhD from the University of Manchester. Kirmani is the author of Questioning 'the Muslim Woman': Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Indian Locality (Routledge 2013). Her current research focuses on urban violence, gender, and insecurity in Lyari, Karachi.