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Markets, Capitalism and Urban Space in India

Author : Anirban Acharya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000599159
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Markets, Capitalism and Urban Space in India written by Anirban Acharya and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the question of the right to the city, informal economies and the non-western shape of neoliberal governance in India through a new analytic: the right to sell. The book examines why and how states attempt to curb, control, and eliminate markets of urban informal street vendors. Focusing on Kolkata, the author provides a theoretical explanation of this puzzle by distilling and analysing the inherent tensions among the constitutive elements of neoliberal governance, namely, growth imperative, market activism, and corporatization, and demonstrates its implications for the formal/informal boundaries of the economy. A useful addition to the existing literatures on the right to the city, informal economies, and the shapes that neoliberalism takes in the non-west, the book provides a non-western counter to accounts of neoliberalism and will be of interest to academics working in the fields of South Asian Studies, Urban Studies, and Political Economy.

Passages of Play in Urban India

Author : Prasad Khanolkar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000602834
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Passages of Play in Urban India written by Prasad Khanolkar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Prasad Khanolkar offers a new way of thinking about ‘slums’ and southern cities based on a grounded engagement with the relationship between media, objects, spaces, and people in the everyday life of slum localities in Mumbai, India. Over the past few decades, Mumbai, like many cities in the global South, has experienced a series of overarching governmental missions to program it into an interoperable and profitable city. Its ‘slums’, which house a majority of its population don’t fit within the dominant registers and continue to be deemed as excess. Urban residents inhabiting Mumbai’s slum localities thus find themselves in the middle of missions, policies, and programs that are not of their making, just as often that they find themselves localized by lack of resources, caste system, communal conflicts, and territorial jurisdictions. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in slum localities of Mumbai, this book explores how its residents engage in different forms of play in order to extend and expand their field of possibilities, despite the limitations and fixities. The book attends to some of these playacts: imparting stories with different thicknesses, rehearsing roles on and offscreen, engaging in deceptive performances, experimenting with repetitive everyday rhythms, and recycling matter and forms. Through these playacts, urban residents explore the virtual abilities of different mediums to put bodies, objects, and spaces into new forms of relationships and create passages to depart from programmed urban futures. By attending to these proliferating urban passages of different residents in slum localities, the book makes a case for rethinking southern cities as mediums for urban lives to converge and depart without an overarching framework. The book makes a significant contribution in the field of urban studies, urban anthropology, urban geography, and urban sociology. It will be of interest to scholars and students working on postcolonial cities, Southern urbanisms, infrastructure studies, and urban planning in the global South.

The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India

Author : Ritanjan Das
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000864340
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India written by Ritanjan Das and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between the production of new urban spaces and illiberal community-making in contemporary India. It is based on an ethnographic study in Noida, a city at the eastern fringe of the state of Uttar Pradesh, bordering national capital Delhi. The book demonstrates a flexible planning approach being central to the entrepreneurial turn in India’s post-liberalisation urbanisation, whereby a small-scale industrial township is transformed into a real-estate driven modern city. Its real point of departure, however, is in the argument that this turn can enable a form of illiberal community-making in new cities that are quite different from older metropolises. Exclusivist forms of solidarity and symbolic boundary construction - stemming from the differences across communities as well as their internal heterogeneities - form the crux of this process, which is examined in three distinct but often interspersed socio-spatial forms: planned middle-class residential quarters, ‘urban villages’ and migrant squatter colonies. The book combines radical geographical conceptualisations of social production of space and neoliberal urbanism with sociological and anthropological approaches to urban community-making. It will be of interest to researchers in development studies, sociology, urban studies, as well as readers interested in society and politics of contemporary India/South Asia.

Religion and Politics in South Asia

Author : Ali Riaz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000317994
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Politics in South Asia written by Ali Riaz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of Religion and Politics in South Asia presents a comprehensive analysis of the interaction of religion and politics in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The book highlights that in recent decades, religion, religio-political parties, and religious rhetoric have become dominant features of the political scenes in all seven countries. By presenting each country's political system and the socio-economic environment within which the interactions of religion and politics are taking place, chapters explore various factors that affect both the lives of people in the region and global politics. Designed in an easy-to-follow structure, the book includes sections on the history and politics, major religions and religious composition of the population, legal and constitutional provisions regarding religion, religious freedom and the treatment of minorities, the political landscape, and religio-political parties and groups within the countries. In doing so, the book addresses concerns including the effects of religio-political interactions on political stability, human rights, and the implications for internal and external security situations. A timely contribution written by experts in their field, this book is a useful guide to religion and politics and will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students in South Asian politics, Asian politics, religion and politics, history, and international studies.

Postcolonial Urban Outcasts

Author : Madhurima Chakraborty
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317195884
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Urban Outcasts written by Madhurima Chakraborty and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents of the South Asian city. The collection investigates how South Asian literature and literature about South Asia attends to urban margins, regardless of whether the definition of margin is spatial, psychological, gendered, or sociopolitical. That cities are a site of profound paradoxes is nowhere clearer than in South Asia, where urban areas simultaneously represent both the frontiers of globalization as well as the deeply troubling social and political inequalities of the global south. Additionally, because South Asian cities are defined by the palimpsestic confluence of, among other things, colonial oppression, anticolonial nationalism, postcolonial governance, and twenty-first century transnational capital, they are sites where the many faces of empowerment and disempowerment are elaborated. The volume brings together essays that emphasize myriad critical approaches—geospatial, urban-theoretical, diasporic, subaltern, and others. United in their critical empathy for urban outcasts, the chapters respond to central questions such as: What is the relationship between the politico-economic narratives of globally emerging South Asian cities and the dispossessed? How do South Asian cities stand in relationship to the nation and, conversely, how might South Asians in diaspora construct these cities within larger narratives of development, globalization, or as sources of authentic ethnic identities? How is the very skeleton—the space, the territory—of South Asian cities marked with and by exclusionary politics? How do the aesthetic and formal choices undertaken by writers determine the potential for and limit to emancipation of urban outcasts from their oppressive circumstances? Considering fiction, nonfiction, comics, and genre fiction from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka; literature from the twentieth and the twenty-first century; and works that are Anglophone and those that are in translation, this book will be valuable to a range of disciplines.

Toilet as Business for the Hygiene of the Chinese Community in Colonial Hong Kong

Author : Yuk-sik Chong
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981191396X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Toilet as Business for the Hygiene of the Chinese Community in Colonial Hong Kong written by Yuk-sik Chong and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how public toilets were provided by the government and local business in Hong Kong between the 1860s and 1930s through a process that was embedded in class and racial politics. Addressing public toilet provision from a political economy perspective, it focuses on the interplay of the cross-border night soil business between Hong Kong and China’s silk producing area; the silk market between China and Colonial powers; the Hong Kong land market between the colonial government and Chinese business; and how these factors jointly produced a network of toilets in the colony. As the book shows, the commercial viability of toilets created multiple logics and a new moral geography; further, exploring the topic can help us gain a better understanding of how urban governance functioned in colonies and how it intertwined with economic contingencies within a global economic system. The intended readership includes academics and members of the general public with an interest in colonialism, public infrastructures, public health, government–business relations, and urban governance.

The Indian Economy @ 75

Author : Chatterjee Biswajit
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040039669
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Indian Economy @ 75 written by Chatterjee Biswajit and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the economic challenges India has been facing since its independence in 1947. It traces the country’s journey of economic transition and critically analyzes themes such as the political economy of development, agriculture, macroeconomy, industry and labor, money and finance, trade liberalization, gender, welfare, energy, and the environment. The volume also addresses the issues of increasing income inequality, mass unemployment, and environmental degradation and suggests policies for efficient and desirable outcomes in socio-economic development. This is an important and timely contribution that it will be of interest to scholars and researchers in economics, development studies, political economy, management studies, public policy, and political studies. It will also be useful to policymakers.

Understanding India’s New Political Economy

Author : Sanjay Ruparelia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136816496
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Understanding India’s New Political Economy written by Sanjay Ruparelia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook addresses the three most important large-scale transformations that have reshaped India since 1989: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and the empowerment of historically subordinate classes through popular democratic mobilizations.€Filling a gap in the literature, €it describes, explains and assesses the nexus between these central transformations in a rigorous and integrated manner.

Invisible Labour

Author : Indranil Chakraborty
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000180336
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Invisible Labour written by Indranil Chakraborty and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the life, working conditions, and urban experiences of support service workers, such as janitors, security guards, culinary workers and carpool drivers, in the information technology (IT) sector of India. Largely omitted from academic discourse, support service workers are crucial to the Indian IT industry. Drawing on interviews with such workers in seven Indian cities with a large concentration of software service companies, this volume: Uses quantitative and qualitative analyses to map and assess workers' responses to migration from rural occupations to a modern urban employment setting; Explores the everyday grind of migrant workers in the context of the homogenizing effects of globalization in an alienating urban environment and discusses how their dislodgment from the structures of rural life – gender and caste roles – has placed them in a space of contestation between traditions and the opportunities and challenges offered by digital society in the form of freedom, individualism, flexibility and innovation; Traces the evolution of new areas of class, and identity formations, as well as the hegemonic relations within that ethos imposed by contractors and corporations. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of sociology and social anthropology, urban studies, development studies, labour studies, social exclusion and South Asian studies.

Religious Activism in the Global Economy

Author : Sabine Dreher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783486988
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Religious Activism in the Global Economy written by Sabine Dreher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protests of neoliberal globalization have proliferated in recent years, not least in response to the financial crisis, austerity and increasing inequality. But how do religious groups organize themselves in response to these issues? This book systematically studies the relationship of religious activism towards neoliberal globalization. It considers how religious organizations often play a central role in the resistance against global capitalism, endeavouring to offer alternatives and developments for reform. But it also examines the other side of the coin, showing how many religious groups help to diffuse neoliberal values, promote and reinforce practices of capitalism. Drawing on a unique set of case studies from around the world, the chapters examine a range of groups and their practices in order to provide a thorough examination of the relationship between religion and the global political economy.

Indian Capitalism in Development

Author : Barbara Harriss-White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317673964
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Indian Capitalism in Development written by Barbara Harriss-White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognising the different ways that capitalism is theorised, this book explores various aspects of contemporary capitalism in India. Using field research at a local level to engage with larger issues, it raises questions about the varieties and processes of capitalism, and about the different roles played by the state. With its focus on India, the book demonstrates the continuing relevance of the comparative political economy of development for the analysis of contemporary capitalism. Beginning with an exploration of capitalism in agriculture and rural development, it goes on to discuss rural labour, small town entrepreneurs, and technical change and competition in rural and urban manufacturing, highlighting the relationships between agricultural and non-agricultural firms and employment. An analysis of processes of commodification and their interaction with uncommodified areas of the economy makes use of the ‘knowledge economy’ as a case study. Other chapters look at the political economy of energy as a driver of accumulation in contradiction with both capital and labour, and at how the political economy of policy processes regulating energy highlights the fragmentary nature of the Indian state. Finally, a chapter on the processes and agencies involved in the export of wealth argues that this plays a crucial role in concealing the exploitation of labour in India. Bringing together scholars who have engaged with classical political economy to advance the understanding of contemporary capitalism in South Asia, and distinctive in its use of an interdisciplinary political economy approach, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Politics, Political Economy and Development Studies.

Mapping India’s Capitalism

Author : Barbara Harriss-White
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137536334
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Mapping India’s Capitalism written by Barbara Harriss-White and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India's capitalist transformation has been spatially uneven. Combining several analytical approaches, the contributors identify socio-spatial regularities some contiguous with state boundaries, some transcending states and some contained within them - while providing evidence about the spatial unevenness of India's capitalist development. The volume has 9 chapters, each with a unique focus: Introduction: Space and Capitalist Change in Contemporary India; Elisabetta Basile, Barbara Harriss-White and Christine Lutringer 1. Mapping Regions of Agrarian Capitalism in India; Deepak K Mishra and Barbara Harriss-White 2. Mapping Agro-Ecological Zones in India; Kunal Sen and Richard Palmer-Jones 3. Uneven Capitalist Development and Peasant Mobilisations: Perspectives from Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh; Christine Lutringer 4 Regions and Capitalist Transition in India: Arunachal Pradesh in a Comparative Perspective; Deepak K Mishra 5 Mapping the World of Women's Work in India; Saraswati Raju 6. A Spatial Analysis of the Incorporation of Dalits into the Indian Business Economy; Kaushal Kishore Vidyarthee 7. Constructing Spatialised Knowledge on Urban Poverty: (Multiple) Dimensions, Mapping Spaces and Claim-Making in Urban Governance; ISA Baud 8. Reciprocity as Regulation. Exploring Methodologies in Urban Design for the Informal Economy of the Historic Pete, Bengaluru, India; Champaka Rajagopal 9. Mapping the Territories of Luxury: Spatial and Symbolic Reassertions of Inequality in Indian Cities; Isabelle Milbert

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.

City, Space and Politics in the Global South

Author : Bikramaditya K. Choudhary
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000072622
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City, Space and Politics in the Global South written by Bikramaditya K. Choudhary and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are centres of exciting events, flows, movements and contradictions that produce both opportunities and challenges. Evolved through the centuries, they display layers of spatial, cultural and socio-economic diversity and contestations, which are articulated in multiple ways. It is in this backdrop that the present volume addresses some of the myriad issues visible in the contemporary cities of the Global South. The volume is divided into three parts, each of them focusing on different dimension of contemporary urban challenges. Part I entitled ‘The Concept of a City’ contains five papers dealing with conceptual complexities of the urban. This part analyses as to what extent development intrudes on urban space and space in turn influences development. Part II ‘City and Urban Space’ contains six papers. These focus on the existing patterns, processes, and perspectives of urbanization and its consequent everyday manifestations across different cities. Part III ‘Urban Policy, Planning and Governance’ has six papers dealing with policy and planning. In the wake of rapid urbanization and economic growth, the urban sector is swiftly changing towards being economic engines. Cities and towns being the centres of economic activities play a catalytic role in contributing to economic development and poverty reduction. However, there are layers of challenges that these cities face. This timely volume brings out these challenges and also analyses plausible solutions which can be brought about by the efficient and effective provision of essential urban services and infrastructure. Please note: This title is co-published with Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Second International Handbook of Urban Education

Author : William T. Pink
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319403176
Total Pages : 1349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Second International Handbook of Urban Education written by William T. Pink and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 1349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second handbook offers all new content in which readers will find a thoughtful and measured interrogation of significant contemporary thinking and practice in urban education. Each chapter reflects contemporary cutting-edge issues in urban education as defined by their local context. One important theme that runs throughout this handbook is how urban is defined, and under what conditions the marginalized are served by the schools they attend. Schooling continues to hold a special place both as a means to achieve social mobility and as a mechanism for supporting the economy of nations. This second handbook focuses on factors such as social stratification, segmentation, segregation, racialization, urbanization, class formation and maintenance, and patriarchy. The central concern is to explore how equity plays out for those traditionally marginalized in urban schools in different locations around the globe. Researchers will find an analysis framework that will make the current practice and outcomes of urban education, and their alternatives, more transparent, and in turn this will lead to solutions that can help improve the life-options for students historically underserved by urban schools.

Restructuring the Chinese City

Author : Laurence J.C. Ma
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134316097
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Restructuring the Chinese City written by Laurence J.C. Ma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sea of change has occurred in China since the 1978 economic reforms. Bringing together the work of leading scholars specializing in urban China, this book examines what has happened to the Chinese city undergoing multiple transformations during the reform era, with an emphasis on new processes of urban formation and the consequent reconstituted urban spaces. With arguments against the convergence thesis that sees cities everywhere becoming more Western in form and suggestions that the Chinese city is best seen as a multiplex city, Restructuring the Chinese City is an indispensable text for Chinese specialists, urban scholars and advanced students in urban geography, urban planning and China studies.

ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS

Author : VEENA KESHAV PAILWAR
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 8120344928
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS written by VEENA KESHAV PAILWAR and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since liberalization, Indian economy is going through some dynamic changes. From a primarily closed agrarian economy, India has become service-oriented open economy, becoming more and more susceptible to economic fluctuations. This comprehensive book, in its third edition, continues to equip the readers with the necessary skills to assess and analyze the evolving economic scenario in India and world over. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate the recent changes taking place in Indian and global economic environment. Every chapter is incorporated with a section on Understanding Economic Environment (UEE), in which the Indian economic environment is compared with the economic environment of its neighbouring countries, emerging markets and major players in the world economy. All chapters are well-supported with illustrative examples and cases to provide an analytical insight to the topics. The chapters also include the topic Implications for Managers, in which implications of a particular aspect of an economy are summarized for the managers. Besides, for an easy assessment of the data, most of the quantitative information is presented in a graphical form rather than in the conventional tabular format. Designed primarily as a textbook for the postgraduate students of management and commerce, this book is useful for the practising managers and policy makers as well. KEY FEATURES : Includes illustrations using latest data (upto 2011) Provides several numerical problems to strengthen the quantitative aspect of the subject Each chapter concludes with a Case Analysis to support the chapters with the applicative tools Companion website www.phindia.com/veenapailwar provides useful resources for the teachers as well as for the students and has been updated as per the current edition.