Urban Navigations (eBook, ePUB)

Politics, Space and the City in South Asia
Redaktion: Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro; Mcfarlane, Colin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the diverse lived experiences of urban South Asia through a focus on contestations over urban space, resources and habitation, bringing together accounts from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. It vividly demonstrates how neoliberalism functions as one of the many drivers of urban change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136197420
• Artikelnr.: 38248132

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Bard College, New York. Colin McFarlane is Lecturer, Department of Geography, Durham University, United Kingdom.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Conceptualising the City in South Asia Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Colin McFarlane Part I: Contested Landscapes 1. The Nuisance of Slums: Environmental Law and the Production of Slum Illegality in India D. Asher Ghertner 2. Poverty as Geography: Motility, Stoppage and Circuits of Waste in Delhi Vinay Gidwani and Bharati Chaturvedi 3. Shillong: The (Un)Making of a North-East Indian City? Daisy Hasan 4. The Divided City? Squatters' Struggle for Urban Space in Kathmandu Urmi Sengupta 5. Spectacular Events, City Spaces and Citizenship: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi Amita Baviskar Part II: Infrastructures and Materialities 6. The Embeddedness of Cost Recovery: Water Reforms and Associationism at Bangalore's Fringes Malini Ranganathan 7. Ignoring Power: Knowing Leakage in Mumbai's Water Supply Nikhil Anand 8. 'No Horn Please': Self-Governance and Sociality in a Kathmandu Housing Colony Andrew Nelson 9. Housing Complexes as Packaged Fantasies: A Meeting of the Local and the Global and the Standardisation of Taste in Colombo Sasanka Perera Part III: Imagining the Urban 10. Sri Lanka: Terror, Anxiety and the Unstable Nation - A Physical Biography of Violence Anoma Pieris 11. City of Lights: Nostalgia, Violence and Karachi's Competing Imaginaries Huma Yusuf 12. Sacrifice and Dystopia: Imagining Karachi through Edhi Yasmin Jaffri and Oskar Verkaaik . About the Editors. Note on the Contributors. Index.