Entangled Urbanism
Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 25 December 2014
- ISBN 9780198099147
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 216x148x29 mm
- Weight 542 g
- Language English
- Illustrations With illustrations 0
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Short description:
This book explores the city as a series of interconnections between spaces and processes. Combining fieldwork and historical analysis, it examines the city that is produced through overlaps between malls, gated communities, slums, Disney-fied temples, urban bureaucracies, Residents Welfare Associations, slum pradhans, middle-class housewives and bottom of the pyramid' consumers. Through these key aspects, the work looks at Delhi and the National Capital Region as a series of overlapping meanings rather than as an identifiable urban essence.
MoreLong description:
What makes a city? Rather than a totality, a city is best understood through focusing upon different but interconnected spaces and processes that make for both dynamism and instability in human lives. Hence, the book ranges across a number of sites in order to explore their connections. How do the pleasures of the gated residential enclave encompass the pain of the demolished slum locality? How do localized rituals of suburban life incorporate the symbolic procedures of the nation-state? What processes link contemporary manifestations of consumerism, the middle-classes, and the urban poor? What kind of a city is produced by the relationship between 'illegal' settlements such as 'slums', the traffic in fake documents that seek to stave of slum-demolitions and representatives of the 'legal' city such as Residents Welfare Associations (RWAs)? What can the increasing visibility of RWAs in the quotidian politics of the city tell us about new notions of citizenship and the emergent relationships between middle-classes, the state and the market? And, what is shared between new forms of urban religiosity, the desire for a 'global' city and new consumer cultures? Through these key themes, the book examines the city as a series of overlapping meanings rather than as identifiable urban essence.
Interesting to anyone concerned with the growth of and intricacies in Indian city life and with the more general problem of slum-clearance
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Slums, Criminal Suburbs, Urban Bodies and 'Superb Housing Schemes' for People with 'Modern Outlook'
Part I: Spaces of the Periphery, Subjects of the Centre
A Hijra, A Female Pradhan, and a Real Estate Dealer: Slum Lives Between the Market, the State and 'Community'
Duplicity, Intimacy, Community: An Ethnography of ID Cards, Permits, and Other Fake Documents
At First Remove: Rumours of a Demolition
Part II: Post-Nationalism, Bhagidars, Consumer-Citizens, the Mohulla, Bedrooms, and Kitchens
Post-nationalism: Urban Spaces, Consumerism, and Middle-Class Activism in Delhi
National Identity, Bedrooms, and Kitchens
Plenitude, Decrepitude and Unruly Villagers. Or, 'People Want a Community, But Not Like a Mohulla'
'Lifestyle Choices in Harmony': Gated Biographies
Part III: Consuming Cultures and Urban Spaces: Between the Basti and the Mall
Classifying Spaces, Specifying Classes: Citizens, the State, and Disney-Divinity in Delhi
High Streets, Low Places and Indian Roots: Shopping Malls and the Narratives of Space
Shop Talk: Shopping Mall Publics
'Revolution Forever': Consumerism and Object Lessons for the Urban Poor
List of Plates
Bibliography
Index
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