Urban Politics In India

Author : Geert de Neve,Henrike Donner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135392154

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The Meaning of the Local by Geert de Neve,Henrike Donner Pdf

By zooming in on urban localities in India and by unpacking the 'meaning of the local' for those who live in them, the ten papers in this volume redress a recurrent asymmetry in contemporary debates about globalisation. In much literature, the global is associated with transnationalism, dynamism and activity, and the local with static identities and history. Focusing on a range of locales in India's metropolitan areas and provincial small towns, the contributions move beyond the assertion that space is socially constructed to explore the ways in which social and political relations are themselves spatially and historically contingent. Using detailed ethnography, the authors highlight the vitality of place-making in the lives of urban dwellers and the centrality of a 'politics of place' in the production of power, difference and inequality. The volume illustrates how urban spaces are increasingly interconnected through wider social and spatial processes, while local boundaries and group-based identities are at the same time reconstructed, and often even consolidated, through the use of 'traditional' idioms and localised practices. All contributions relate detailed case studies of everyday activities to a range of contemporary debates that highlight various spatial aspects of cultural identities, economic restructuring and political processes in India. The volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective on urban life in rapidly changing political and economic environments. It offers a contribution to policy-orientated debates on urban livelihoods and urban planning as well as a wealth of ethnographic material for those interested in the spatial dimensions of urban life in India.

Author : Rodney W. Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520319172

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Urban Politics in India by Rodney W. Jones Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Author : Gavin Shatkin
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1299804349

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Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local by Gavin Shatkin Pdf

"Contesting the Indian City" features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics, equity, and space relating to urban development in modern India.Features studies that serve to deepen our theoretical understandings of the changes that Indian cities are experiencingExamines how urban redevelopment policy and planning, and reforms of urban politics and real estate markets, are shaping urban spatial change in IndiaThe first volume to bring themes of urban political reform, municipal finance, land markets, and real estate industry together in an international publication

Author : Gokula Nanda Mishra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : City council members
ISBN : LCCN:84900953

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Urban Politics in India by Gokula Nanda Mishra Pdf

Author : Archana Ghosh,Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015064774246

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Democratization in Progress by Archana Ghosh,Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal Pdf

This book presents the findings of an empirical study of the implementation of women s reservations in four Indian mega-cities: Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. It offers a detailed and lively account of what it means to be a woman Councillor in an Indian mega-city today, and a critical view of the functioning of Municipal Corporations, with specific emphasis on women s roles and opportunities to participate and perform in their new environment. By choosing to consider the decentralization policy in general and women s reservations in particular as an experiment in democratization, the authors provide useful and useable insights into a range of issues at stake.To what extent, in what ways and under which conditions can increased political representation of women at the local level empower women?Is the functioning of urban local bodies truly participatory and inclusive?What are the (other) reforms needed to make women elected to urban local bodies more effective agents of urban development?Archana Ghosh, an economist, is Senior Faculty and Head of the Urban Studies Department in the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, and is based in its Eastern Regional Centre at Kolkata.Stéphanie Tawa Lama Rewal, a political scientist, is a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of India and South Asia (CNRS EHESS), Paris, and a visiting scholar at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi.

Author : Nandini Gooptu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521443661

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The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India by Nandini Gooptu Pdf

Nandini Gooptu's magisterial 2001 history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force.

Author : Xuefei Ren
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691203409

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Governing the Urban in China and India by Xuefei Ren Pdf

What is urban about urban China and India? -- Land grabs and protests from Wukan to Singur -- Urban redevelopment in Guangzhou and Mumbai -- Airpocalypse in Beijing and Delhi -- Territorial and associational politics in historical perspective.

Author : Stanley A. Kochanek
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520319127

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Business and Politics in India by Stanley A. Kochanek Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Author : Adam Michael Auerbach,Tariq Thachil
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691236100

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Migrants and Machine Politics by Adam Michael Auerbach,Tariq Thachil Pdf

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant slums as exhausted by dispossession, subdued by local dons, bought off by wily politicians, or polarized by ethnic appeals. Migrants and Machine Politics shows how slum residents in India routinely defy such portrayals, actively constructing and wielding political machine networks to demand important, albeit imperfect, representation and responsiveness within the country’s expanding cities. Drawing on years of pioneering fieldwork in India’s slums, including ethnographic observation, interviews, surveys, and experiments, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil reveal how migrants harness forces of political competition—as residents, voters, community leaders, and party workers—to sow unexpected seeds of accountability within city politics. This multifaceted agency provokes new questions about how political networks form during urbanization. In answering these questions, this book overturns longstanding assumptions about how political machines exploit the urban poor to stifle competition, foster ethnic favoritism, and entrench vote buying. By documenting how poor migrants actively shape urban politics in counterintuitive ways, Migrants and Machine Politics sheds new light on the political consequences of urbanization across India and the Global South.

Author : Rana Tahseen
Publisher : Deep and Deep Publications
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Municipal government
ISBN : UOM:39015020787688

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Urban Politics and Administration by Rana Tahseen Pdf

Author : Anil Kumar Vaddiraju
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000294446

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Urban Governance and Local Democracy in South India by Anil Kumar Vaddiraju Pdf

This book examines the issues of urban governance and local democracy in South India. It is the first comprehensive volume that offers comparative frameworks on urban governance across all states in the region: Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The book focuses on governance in small district-level cities and raises crucial questions such as the nature of urban planning, major outstanding issues for urban local governance, conditions of civic amenities such as drinking water and sanitation and problems of social capital in making urban governance work in these states. It emphasizes on both efficient urban governance and effective local democracy to meet the challenges of fast-paced urbanization in these states while presenting policy lessons from their urbanization processes. Rich in empirical data, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, public administration, governance, public policy, development studies and urban studies, as well as practitioners and non-governmental organizations.

Author : Dr. Ashokkumar V. Paled
Publisher : Lulu Publication
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781105707872

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URBAN POLITICAL PARTIES AND ADMINISTRATION by Dr. Ashokkumar V. Paled Pdf

Political parties are central to India political life. Their role in political mobilization, governance, the formulation and implementation of economic and social policy, ethnic conflict, separatist movements, and the working of democracy has long been the focus of analysis. Their centrality arises from the fact that they are the key link between individual and state, and state and society as staed earlier. Political parties provide the crucial connection between social process and policy makers, and influence debates and policies on issues affecting the interests of various social groups in the political system. As more and more people participated in the democratic process, competitive politics and the party system have undergone a major change over the past two decades. The Congress and the ruling BJP led National Democratic Alliance face dissension at all levels extending from differences between the BJP and organizations it is affiliated with, such as the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), and between the party and its coalition partners.

Author : Rakhahari Chatterji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Urbanization
ISBN : UOM:39015041925507

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Politics of Urbanization and Industrial Development by Rakhahari Chatterji Pdf

Author : Swetha Rao Dhananka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108484268

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The Politics of Housing in Urban India by Swetha Rao Dhananka Pdf

A study that maps India's political opportunities and closures for claim making in general and housing grievances in particular.

Author : Kanekanti Chandrashekar Smitha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811022364

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Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India by Kanekanti Chandrashekar Smitha Pdf

Through the analysis of Indian metropolises, this volume critiques the reality of “entrepreneurial governance” that has emerged as a major urban development practice in cities of the global south. In neoliberal India, the use of management rhetoric in urban development has rapidly led to the growth of urban/peri-urban structures and spaces that are supposedly “smart” and “entrepreneurial”, which are networked within global systems of production, finance, technology/ telecommunication, culture and politics. Through diverse empirical evidence from India, particularly from the metropolises of New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai, this volume focuses on the fallout of the deployment of “entrepreneurial governance” practices at national, state and local levels. Foremost, it explores the impact of specific institutional and organizational reorientations and changing urban spatial landscapes at the local level; secondly, it discusses the socio-economic implications of rollback of the state and involvement of non-state organizations in governance as part of urban entrepreneurialism; further, it discusses the regulation of urban development projects by local governments and the impact of "entrepreneurial governance" for citizens, often resulting in social exclusion and inequality. Finally, it explores the inherent contradictions within political and institutional landscapes that can be described as “entrepreneurial”. Written by scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, and focusing on different facets of entrepreneurial governance in Indian metropolises, this book is of interest to researchers of urban politics, public policy, urban sociology, anthropology, urban geography, planning and architecture.