The Meaning of the Local (eBook, PDF)

Politics of Place in Urban India
Redaktion: De Neve, Geert; Donner, Henrike

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the meaning of locality in urban India through studies of social, spatial and historical associations between peoples and places.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135392161
• Artikelnr.: 43072423

Autorenporträt

Geert De Neve is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. He has a specific interest in issues of anthropology and globalisation, as well as a more general interest in processes of migration, modernity and social transformation. Henrike Donner is Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, UK. She is an urban anthropologist and has worked extensively in Calcutta, India. Her research interests are focused on gender and kinship, education, reproductive change, middle-class lifestyles, urban space and politics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Space, Place and Globalisation: Revisiting the Urban Neighbourhood in
India Henrike Donner and Geert De Neve 2. Economic Liberalisation, Class
Restructuring and Social Space in Provincial South India Geert De Neve 3.
'Establishing Territory': The Spatial Bases and Practices of the DPI Hugo
Gorringe 4. Local Governance: Politics and Neighbourhood Activism in
Calcutta Indranil Chakrabarti 5. Temples and Charity: The Neighbourhood
Styles of the Komati and Beeri Chetty Merchants of Madras City Mattison
Mines 6. Parhai Ka Mahaul? An Educational Environment in Bijnor, Uttar
Pradesh Roger Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey 7. The Politics
of Gender, Class and Community in a Central Calcutta Neighbourhood Henrike
Donner 8. Anonymous Encounters: Class Categorisation and Social Distancing
in Public Places Kathinka Frøystad 9. Conformity and Contestation: Social
Heterogeneity in South Indian Settlements Penny Vera-Sanso 10. The Rituals
of Rehabilitation: Rebuilding an Urban Neighbourhood after the Gujarat
Earthquake of 2001 Edward Simpson