Indias Contemporary Urban Conundrum

Author : Sujata Patel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429656939
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India’s Contemporary Urban Conundrum written by Sujata Patel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lays out the different and complex dimensions of urbanisation in India. It brings together contributors with expertise in fields as varied as demography, geography, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, architecture, planning and land use, environmental sciences, creative writing, filmmaking and grassroots activism to reflect on and examine India’s urban experience. It discusses various dimensions of city life—how to define the urban; the conditions generating work, living and (in)security; the nature of contemporary cities; the dilemmas of creating and executing urban policy, planning and governance; and the issues concerning ecology and environment. The volume also articulates and evaluates the way Indian urbanism promotes and organises aspirations and utopias of the people, whilst simultaneously endorsing disparities, depravities and conflicts. The volume includes interventions that shape contemporary debates. Comprehensive, accessible and topical, it will be useful to scholars and researchers of urban studies, urban sociology, development studies, public policy, economics, political studies, gender studies, city studies, planning and governance. It will also interest practitioners, think tanks and NGOs working on urban issues.

Author : Sujata Patel
Publisher : Routledge India
ISBN 13 : 9780429023996
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India's Contemporary Urban Conundrum written by Sujata Patel and published by Routledge India. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lays out the different and complex dimensions of urbanisation in India. It brings together contributors with expertise in fields as varied as demography, geography, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, architecture, planning and land use, environmental sciences, creative writing, filmmaking and grassroots activism to reflect on and examine India's urban experience. It discusses various dimensions of city life--how to define the urban; the conditions generating work, living and (in)security; the nature of contemporary cities; the dilemmas of creating and executing urban policy, planning and governance; and the issues concerning ecology and environment. The volume also articulates and evaluates the way Indian urbanism promotes and organises aspirations and utopias of the people, whilst simultaneously endorsing disparities, depravities and conflicts. The volume includes interventions that shape contemporary debates. Comprehensive, accessible and topical, it will be useful to scholars and researchers of urban studies, urban sociology, development studies, public policy, economics, political studies, gender studies, city studies, planning and governance. It will also interest practitioners, think tanks and NGOs working on urban issues.

Author : Toshie Awaya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000807789
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inclusive Development in South Asia written by Toshie Awaya and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the multi-layered aspects and the complexities of inclusive development in South Asia based on recent data and using innovative methodology. The book offers an analysis of the existing ground realities in terms of economic and inclusive development, presenting relevant discussion and findings. It discusses lower castes, tribes, religious/ethnic minorities, and other socially vulnerable people, as well as gender, rural–urban, and educational disparities in South Asia, and highlights that all these issues are interrelated. Structured in two parts—Spatial Dimensions, Labour, and Migration, and Social Dimensions and Beyond Inclusion—the chapters present emerging new concepts related to socio-economic and inclusive development and use effective and valid methods and methodology covering the ground realities-based information and secondary data-based analysis. Evaluating the extent to which inclusive development has been realised in South Asia, the contributors explore a new approach towards the concept of ‘inclusiveness’ by drawing on the experiences of the diverse societies in South Asia. An immensely useful contribution to the analysis of different economic and social issues in different countries in South Asia, focusing on inclusivity, this book will be of interest to researchers working on South Asian Politics and Development Economics.

Author : Arthur Bueno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000684032
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book De-Centering Global Sociology written by Arthur Bueno and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the challenges posed to sociological theory and social science research by a growing need to foreground perspectives stemming from, and accounting for, subaltern groups, marginal categories, the Global South, and other politically peripheral regions. De-Centering Global Sociology radically questions some of the most enduring assumptions within sociological thought and social science research and illustrates the impacts of de-centering critical concepts in public policy and education. It proposes new places to build social theory, beyond Europe and the United States, offering debates on the present and future of the social sciences. This peripheral turn also has impacts on the development of pedagogical practices, curricula, and educational research that are more inclusive, and in a position to promote global citizenship. This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and academics with an interest in global social theory, decolonial and postcolonial studies, political theory, feminism, critical race theory, economic sociology, inequality studies, urban sociology, and the sociology of work, religion, and education. It will be of particular interest to those with a focus on citizenship, social policy, conviviality, social integration and solidarity, and new perspectives on multicultural education.

Author : Christoph Cornelissen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110778688
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migration and the European City written by Christoph Cornelissen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking back over the centuries, migration has always formed an important part of human existence. Spatial mobility emerges as a key driver of urban evolution, characterized by situation-specific combinations of opportunities, restrictions, and fears. This collection of essays investigates interactions between European cities and migration between the early modern period and the present. Building on conceptual approaches from history, sociology, and cultural studies, twelve contributions focus on policies, representations, and the impact on local communities more generally. Combining case-studies and theoretical reflections, the volume’s contributions engage with a variety of topics and disciplinary perspectives yet also with several common themes. One revolves around problems of definition, both in terms of demarcating cities from their surroundings and of distinguishing migration in a narrower sense from other forms of short- and long-distance mobility. Further shared concerns include the integration of multiple analytical scales, contextual factors, and diachronic variables (such as urbanization, industrialization, and the digital revolution).

Author : Sanjay Srivastava
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009179861
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masculinity, Consumerismand the Post-national Indian City written by Sanjay Srivastava and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masculine cultures define urban cultures and are defined by them. A multidisciplinary analysis that explores urbanism, masculine anxieties and gender relations.

Author : Swathi Krishna S.
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666902330
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gendered Violence in Public Spaces written by Swathi Krishna S. and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the vulnerability of women in public spaces in India through the analysis of artistic representations ranging from emerging digital media, commercial Hindi films and graphic narratives to narratives of real and lived experiences of women. In doing so, the book resists gendered violence and champions women's right to mobility.

Author : Ranabir Samaddar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000071405
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Age of Migration written by Ranabir Samaddar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the question of migration that appears at the intersection of global neo-liberal transformation, postcolonial politics, and economy. It analyses the specific ways in which colonial relations are produced and reproduced in global migratory flows and their consequences for labour, human rights, and social justice. The postcolonial age of migration not only indicates a geopolitical and geo-economic division of the globe between countries of the North and those of the South marked by massive and mixed population flows from the latter to the former, but also the production of these relations within and among the countries of the North. The book discusses issues such as transborder flows among countries of the South; migratory movements of the internally displaced; growing statelessness leading to forced migration; border violence; refugees of partitions; customary and local practices of care and protection; population policies and migration management (both emigration and immigration); the protracted nature of displacement; labour flows and immigrant labour; and the relationships between globalisation, nationalism, citizenship, and migration in postcolonial regions. It also traces colonial and postcolonial histories of migration and justice to bear on the present understanding of local experiences of migration as well as global social transformations while highlighting the limits of the fundamental tenets of humanitarianism (protection, assistance, security, responsibility), which impact the political and economic rights of vast sections of moving populations. Topical and an important intervention in contemporary global migration and refugee studies, the book offers new sources, interpretations, and analyses in understanding postcolonial migration. It will be useful to scholars and researchers of migration studies, refugee studies, border studies, political studies, political sociology, international relations, human rights and law, human geography, international politics, and political economy. It will also interest policymakers, legal practitioners, nongovernmental organisations, and activists.

Author : Sadan Jha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic India
ISBN 13 : 9789390252633
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neighbourhoods in Urban India written by Sadan Jha and published by Bloomsbury Academic India. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last couple of decades, India in particular and global South in general has witnessed a massive growth of cities. In India, more than one third of her population lives in cities. However, urban development, growth and expansion are not merely about infrastructures and enlargement of cityscapes. Yet, scholars have often ignored the social dynamics of this urban growth in terms of practices and everyday life in spatially grounded manner. It is this spatial rootedness of the urban social life, which draws our attention to neighbourhoods. Urban transformations shape subjectivities and experiences of people who live there. This edited volume focuses on neighbourhoods, their particularities and role in shaping our understanding of the urban in India. The essays aim to locate Indian experiences in larger context of global South and seek to decenter the dominant Euro-American discourse of urban social life. Moving away from the confines of a discourse saturated by the concerns of the political economy or specific disciplinary trajectories of urban sociology this edited volume asks, how people perceive and experience their residential environments? In doing so, it attempts to engage with the socio-spatial dynamics of the urban space by anchoring upon the idea of neighbourhoods. Here, the everyday social practices, value regimes, housing, caste and gender, mass violence, religiosity and urban planning come together to enable us novel insights and fresh perspectives. In this backdrop, the essays in the volume offer to understand neighbourhoods as changing socio-spatial units in their specific regional settings. The essays in this book underline the way value regimes (religiosity and subjectivities) give neighbourhoods their social meanings and stereotypes. On the whole, the volume unpacks the manner in which discourses and knowledge practices i.e. planning, architecture and urban discourses of governance shape the understanding of neighbourhoods. The essays in this volume disclose the linkages and disjunctures between the social practices of neighbourhoods and the language, logic and experiences of dwelling, housing, urban planning and governance. In sum, it brings about an understanding of the particularities and heterogeneities of neighbourhoods and neighbourliness.

Author : Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000507254
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India's Migrant Workers and the Pandemic written by Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sudden announcement was made by the government on 24 March 2020 of a complete lockdown of the country, due to the spectre of Coronavirus. India’s Migrant Workers and the Pandemic was being written as the crisis was unfolding with no end in sight. Migrant workers from different parts of India had no choice but to trek back hundreds of kilometres carrying their scanty belongings and dragging their hungry and thirsty children in the scorching heat of the plains of India to reach home. How did caste, race, gender, and other fault lines operate in this governmental strategy to cope with a virus epidemic? The eight papers in this collection, highlight the ethical and political implications of the epidemic—particularly for India’s migrant workers. What were the forces of power at play in this war against the epidemic? What measures could have been taken and need to be taken now? Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.