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India’s Contemporary Urban Conundrum

Author : Sujata Patel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429656939
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 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.

India's Contemporary Urban Conundrum

Author : Sujata Patel
Publisher : Routledge India
ISBN 13 : 9780429023996
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (239 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.

Inclusive Development in South Asia

Author : Toshie Awaya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000807789
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 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.

De-Centering Global Sociology

Author : Arthur Bueno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000684032
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 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.

Migration and the European City

Author : Christoph Cornelissen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110778688
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Migration and the European City by : Christoph Cornelissen

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).

Masculinity, Consumerismand the Post-national Indian City

Author : Sanjay Srivastava
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009179861
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 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.

Gendered Violence in Public Spaces

Author : Swathi Krishna S.
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666902330
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 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.

The Postcolonial Age of Migration

Author : Ranabir Samaddar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000071405
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( 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.

Neighbourhoods in Urban India

Author : Sadan Jha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic India
ISBN 13 : 9789390252633
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (526 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.

India's Migrant Workers and the Pandemic

Author : Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000507254
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (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.

The Divided City

Author : Singh Binti
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813226994
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Divided City written by Singh Binti and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-10-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Divided City contributes to the growing body of scholarly work on cities of the global South. Cities in developing countries, particularly emerging economies, are undergoing rapid urbanization and social transition. Empirically grounded to the contemporary urban situation in India, The Divided City is set in an opportune moment to assess how cities fare up to the challenge of inclusive urbanization. It highlights how the urban pathway of contemporary India departs from the goal of inclusion in multiple ways -- access to energy, public services, architecture, land, infrastructure, commons, and cultural and civic spaces. It simultaneously interrogates both policy and theory with intermingling issues like informality, privatization, political economy and gender divide in the contemporary Indian city. The book argues for greater urban inclusion (social, economic and environmental) acknowledged in principle, in national and international urban policy frameworks.

Handbook of Decentralised Governance and Development in India

Author : D. Rajasekhar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000425347
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Decentralised Governance and Development in India by : D. Rajasekhar

Download or read book Handbook of Decentralised Governance and Development in India written by D. Rajasekhar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook examines 25 years of decentralised governance and development in India. It provides a historical overview of developments since the introduction of decentralisation reforms (73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendment Acts) and critically assesses the measures initiated to strengthen decentralised institutions and deepen grassroots democracy. It also discusses the status of service delivery and identifies the issues and challenges involved in achieving development at the local level. The volume studies themes such as the devolution of powers in India, administrative and fiscal decentralisation, decentralised planning, Panchayats in scheduled areas, the sociological aspects of decentralisation, caste, gender and local democracy, capacity building, ICT for local governance, urban local governance, workfare and decentralisation, and decentralised natural resource management. It also looks at Panchayati Raj institutions from a Gandhian perspective. The first of its kind, this handbook will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of decentralisation and development, development studies, fiscal decentralisation, political studies, political sociology, Indian politics, Indian government, public policy and governance, political economy, South Asian studies, and South Asian politics.

Communicative Cities and Urban Space

Author : Scott McQuire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000293599
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Communicative Cities and Urban Space written by Scott McQuire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities have long been recognized as key sites for fostering new communication practices. However, as contemporary cities experience major changes, how do diverse inhabitants encounter each other? How do cities remember? What is the role of the built environment in fostering sites for public communication in a digital era? Communicative Cities and Urban Space offers a critical analysis of contemporary changes in the relation between urban space and communication. This volume seeks to understand the situatedness of contemporary communication practices in diverse contexts of urban life, and to explore digitized urban space as a historically specific communicative environment. The essays in this book collectively propose that the concept of the ‘communicative city’ is a productive frame for rethinking the above questions in the context of 21st-century ‘media cities’. They challenge us to reconsider qualities such as openness, autonomy and diversity in contemporary urban communication practices, and to identify factors that might expand or constrict communicative possibilities. Students and scholars of communication studies and urban studies would benefit from this book.

India's Reluctant Urbanization

Author : P. Tiwari
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137339756
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book India's Reluctant Urbanization written by P. Tiwari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a close examination of India's policies, economic system, social systems and politics, this study explores the numerous perspectives and debates on India's urbanization. The authors link contemporary urban issues with emerging challenges associated with policies and city management.

Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, Vol.1 No.2, 2017

Author : Senem Zeybekoglu Sadri
Publisher : Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, Vol.1 No.2, 2017 written by Senem Zeybekoglu Sadri and published by Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oeuvre vs. Abstract Space: Appropriation of Gezi Park in Istanbul Senem Zeybekoglu Sadri, Dr. 1-10 DOI https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2017.3643 Identity in Changing Context: Factors of losing Identity in new developed part of the city of Famagusta, North Cyprus Hourakhsh Ahmad Nia, Dr., Yousif Hussien Suleiman, MA. 11-20 DOI https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2017.3644 The inspiration of Bauhaus principles on the modern housing in Cyprus Mustafa Aziz Amen, Ph.D. Candidate 21-32 DOI https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2017.3645 An agenda for the Management of contemporary Sustainable houses Ifeanyi Obi, Dr. 33-37 DOI https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2017.3646 Courtyard Housing in China: Chinese Quest for Harmony Donia Zhang, Dr. 38-56 DOI https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2017.3647 Density, Energy and Metabolism of a proposed smart city Anindita Mandal, Dr., Hugh Byrd, Dr. 57-68 DOI https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2017.3648 Establishment of space syntax to read urban road network; the case of Sari, Iran Ehsan Valipour, Ph.D. Candidate, Samira Tayyebisoudkolaei, MA., Abdolah Mobaraki, Ph.D. Candidate 69-75 DOI https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2017.3649 Profession vs Ethics Hossein Sadri, Dr. 76-82 DOI https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2017.3650

The Postcolonial City and Its Subjects

Author : Rashmi Varma
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113680403X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial City and Its Subjects written by Rashmi Varma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter of postcolonial fictions and the cultural fields surrounding and containing them. In particular, she presents a representational history of London, Nairobi and Bombay in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and engages three key theoretical frameworks—the city within postcolonial theory and culture (its troubled salience in the construction of postcolonial public spheres and identities, from local, rural, ethnic/"tribal", and regional to "national", cosmopolitan and transnational subjects and spaces); postcolonial fictions as constituting a new world literary space and as a site of the articulation of contending narratives of urban space, global culture and postcolonial development; and postcolonial feminist citizenship as a universal political project challenging current neo-liberal and post neo-liberal contractions and eviscerations of public spaces and rights.

Urban Planning and its Discontents

Author : Darshini Mahadevia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000971090
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Urban Planning and its Discontents written by Darshini Mahadevia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards debates on changes required in the current practice. Urban planning in India means many things to city residents and is used generically to include all interventions in the cities, such as public policy design, institutional design, spatial and territorial plans, infrastructure plans, public administration, community participation, and their implementation through programmes, schemes, and projects. While urban planning is expected to meet the global development agendas of equitable and just urbanisation, climate change and sustainable development goals (SDGs), in practice it has largely remained confined to statutory spatial planning represented by ‘Master Plan’ or ‘Comprehensive Plan’. This volume delves into this world of urban planning as critical insiders to see how it works in India, analysing the city level spatial plans, the Master or Development Plans, of select cities to assess whether these are capable of addressing the global agendas and coordinate with all other plans prepared for the city. It examines whether it would work in reference to the contemporary issues, SDGs, and global agendas, and discusses strategies on how to make it work better. It also deals with each of the above stated criticisms of the practice and examines the debates, data, approaches, agendas, plans, and the future of urban planning in India. This book comes in at a time when the urban planners and policy makers have themselves begun to discuss a need to relook at urban planning practices and tools to meet the future requirements of urbanisation in India. It will be a useful reference volume for the students, scholars and practitioners alike, and be of interest to researchers and students of urban planning, architecture, public administration, civil engineering, geography, economics, and sociology. It will also be useful for policy makers and professionals working in the areas of town and country planning.