| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, map. |
|
data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Cities and the urban imperative
|
|
Cities and the urban imperative.
|
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 27, 2013). |
|
Contributed articles. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : conceptualising the city in South Asia / Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria and Colin McFarlane -- pt. 1. Contested landscapes. The nuisance of slums : environmental law and the production of slum illegality in India / D. Asher Ghertner ; Poverty as geography : motility, stoppage and circuits of waste in Delhi / Vinay Gidwani and Bharati Chaturvedi ; Shillong : the (un)making of a North-East Indian city? / Daisy Hasan ; The divided city? : squatters' struggle for urban space in Kathmandu / Urmi Sengupta ; Spectacular events, city spaces and citizenship : the commonwealth games in Delhi / Amita Baviskar -- pt. 2. Infrastructures and materialities. The embeddedness of cost recovery : water reforms and associationism at Bangalore's fringes / Malini Ranganathan ; Ignoring power : knowing leakage in Mumbai's water supply / Nikhil Anand ; 'No horn please' : self-governance and sociality in Kathmandu housing colony / Andrew Nelson ; Gated communities as packaged fantasies : a meeting of the local and the global and the standardisation of taste in urban Sri Lanka / Sasanka Perera -- pt. 3. Imaging the urban. Sri Lanka : terror, anxiety and the unstable nation : a physical biography of violence / Anoma Pieris ; City of lights : nostalgia, violence and Karachi's competing imaginaries / Huma Yusuf ; Sacrifice and dystopia : imagining Karachi through Edhi / Yasmin Jaffri and Oskar Verkaaik. |
| Summary |
This book provides an important account of how the city in South Asia is produced, lived and contested. It 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. In contrast to accounts that attribute urban transformation mainly to neoliberal globalisation, this book vividly demonstrates how neoliberalism functions as one of the many drivers of urban change. This edited volume brings together an interdisciplinary and internation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
City and town life -- South Asia.
|
|
City and town life. |
|
South Asia. |
|
Cities and towns -- South Asia -- Social conditions.
|
|
Cities and towns. |
|
Social conditions. |
|
Urbanization -- South Asia.
|
|
Urbanization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
| Added Author |
Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro.
|
|
McFarlane, Colin, 1979-
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. Urban Navigations : Politics, Space and the City in South Asia. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2013 9780415617604 |
| ISBN |
9781136197437 (electronic book) |
|
1136197435 (electronic book) |
|
9780203085332 (e-book) |
|
0203085337 (e-book) |
|
041561760X |
|
9780415617604 |
|
9780415617604 |
|
