The Politics of Urban Land in South Asia

Current Challenges and New Directions
Herausgeber: Nielsen, Kenneth; Sengupta, Urmi

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Produktbeschreibung

Cities in South Asia are homes to one of the highest concentrations of people anywhere in the world and the allocation of land and urban resources in this region have become increasingly contested. This volume explores the politics of urban land in South Asia and the challenges related to their respective urban futures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032444116
• ISBN-10: 1032444118
• Artikelnr.: 71596400

Autorenporträt

Urmi Sengupta is Reader in School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast. Kenneth Bo Nielsen is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Research Associate at the Department of Sociology, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Foreword. 1. The
Politics of Urban Land in South Asia 2. Dispossession and the militarised
developer state: Financialization and Class power on the agrarian-urban
frontier of Islamabad 3. Land Use Planning and Dispossession in Goa, India
4. Production, transformation, and contestation of land in informal
settlements 5. The question of land in conflict-ridden east and south Sri
Lanka 6. Unregulated Neoliberalism, Urban Land Grabbing, and Environmental
Destruction in Kathmandu Valley 7. The Question of 'Land Justice' in Urban
Bangladesh 8. A house is not a home: the struggle for spatial justice in
post-war Colombo 9. Rent and Right to the City 10. Revisiting the Urban
Land Question at the Extensions of Lahore: People's Infrastructural Labour
towards (Im-)Permanent Inhabitation 11. Land pooling technique as an urban
development tool for Nepal 12. The new frontier: A critical reflection on
land pooling policy in Delhi. Index