Joop de Wit

Urban Poverty, Local Governance and Everyday Politics in Mumbai

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the informal (political) patronage relations between the urban poor and service delivery organisations in Mumbai, India. It examines the conditions of people in the slums and traces the extent to which they are subject to social and political exclusion. Delving into the roles of the slum-based mediators and municipal council

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780367177416
• ISBN-10: 0367177412
• Artikelnr.: 56924011

Autorenporträt

Joop de Wit is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Development Management, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS), The Hague, The Netherlands. An anthropologist, his research interests are political science, governance, policy issues, urban poverty and decentralization. He has published the books Poverty, Policy and Politics in Madras Slums: Dynamics of Survival, Gender and Leadership (1996) and New Forms of Urban Governance in India: Shifts, Models, Networks and Contestations (co-edited with I.S.A. Baud, 2008) as well as numerous articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. List of abbreviations. Introduction 1 Locating Mumbai's poor in
urban governance, politics and informality 2 Mumbai megacity: city, people
and governance changes 3 Included and excluded: Mumbai's poor and slum
dynamics 4 Political entrepreneurs: the Mumbai corporators in their
political and financial context 5 Politics or poli-tricks? Local democracy
and slumvoting in the 2012 Mumbai municipal elections Conclusions: the poor
pray for miracles, the rich think they have a right to them. Glossary.
Bibliography. Index