Contesting the Indian City

Contesting the Indian City
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 9781118295847
ISBN-13 : 1118295846
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Contesting the Indian City by : Gavin Shatkin

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 experiencing Examines how urban redevelopment policy and planning, and reforms of urban politics and real estate markets, are shaping urban spatial change in India The first volume to bring themes of urban political reform, municipal finance, land markets, and real estate industry together in an international publication

Contesting Citizenship

Contesting Citizenship
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9780231522243
ISBN-13 : 023152224X
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Contesting Citizenship by : Anne McNevin

Irregular migrants complicate the boundaries of citizenship and stretch the parameters of political belonging. Comprised of refugees, asylum seekers, "illegal" labor migrants, and stateless persons, this group of migrants occupies new sovereign spaces that generate new subjectivities. Investigating the role of irregular migrants in the transformation of citizenship, Anne McNevin argues that irregular status is an immanent (rather than aberrant) condition of global capitalism, formed by the fast-tracked processes of globalization. McNevin casts irregular migrants as more than mere victims of sovereign power, shuttled from one location to the next. Incorporating examples from the United States, Australia, and France, she shows how migrants reject their position as "illegal" outsiders and make claims on the communities in which they live and work. For these migrants, outsider status operates as both a mode of subjectification and as a site of active resistance, forcing observers to rethink the enactment of citizenship. McNevin connects irregular migrant activism to the complex rescaling of the neoliberal state. States increasingly prioritize transnational market relations that disrupt the spatial context for citizenship. At the same time, states police their borders in ways that reinvigorate territorial identities. Mapping the broad dynamics of political belonging in a neoliberal era, McNevin provides invaluable insight into the social and spatial transformation of citizenship, sovereignty, and power.

History, Culture and the Indian City

History, Culture and the Indian City
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9780521768719
ISBN-13 : 0521768713
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis History, Culture and the Indian City by : Rajnayaran Chandavarkar

A substantial collection of unpublished articles, lectures and papers from one of the finest Indian historians of the twentieth century.

Protracted Contest

Protracted Contest
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 462
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ISBN-10 : 9780295801209
ISBN-13 : 0295801204
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Protracted Contest by : John W. Garver

Ever since the two ancient nations of India and China established modern states in the mid-20th century, they have been locked in a complex rivalry ranging across the South Asian region. Garver offers a scrupulous examination of the two countries’ actions and policy decisions over the past fifty years. He has interviewed many of the key figures who have shaped their diplomatic history and has combed through the public and private statements made by officials, as well as the extensive record of government documents and media reports. He presents a thorough and compelling account of the rivalry between these powerful neighbors and its influence on the region and the larger world.

Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local

Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local
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Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 1299804349
ISBN-13 : 9781299804340
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

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

"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

Contesting Knowledge

Contesting Knowledge
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 375
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ISBN-10 : 9780803219489
ISBN-13 : 0803219482
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Contesting Knowledge by : Susan Sleeper-Smith

The essays in section 1 consider ethnography's influence on how Europeans represent colonized peoples. Section 2 essays analyze curatorial practices, emphasizing how exhibitions must serve diverse masters rather than solely the curator's own creativity and judgment, a dramatic departure from past museum culture and practice. Section 3 essays consider tribal museums that focus on contesting and critiquing colonial views of American and Canadian history while serving the varied needs of the indigenous communities.

The New Clash of Civilizations

The New Clash of Civilizations
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Publisher : Rainlight
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 8129129906
ISBN-13 : 9788129129901
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis The New Clash of Civilizations by : Minhaz Merchant

A compelling amalgam of new writing and published essays by Minhaz Merchant, The New Clash of Civilizations offers deep and stimulating insights into how the contest between four major civilizational forces-the United States, China, India and Islam-will shape our century. The historic shift in the economic and geopolitical balance of power from the West to the East, Merchant writes, will determine the ideas and principles that govern this unfolding century. Divided into six distinct sections-History, Nation, World, Leaders, Science & Society, and Vintage-the book provides an original perspective on a dynamic nation coming to terms with itself and the world. In politics and science, history and economics, India's place in an increasingly competitive global order-and its interaction with the other three major civilizational strands-forms a cornerstone of the book's narrative. Broad in sweep and range, The New Clash of Civilizations is a lucid and brilliant account of the ebb and flow of power in the twenty-first century.

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 606
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ISBN-10 : 9781317403579
ISBN-13 : 1317403576
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India by : Knut A. Jacobsen

India is the second largest country in the world with regard to population, the world’s largest democracy and by far the largest country in South Asia, and one of the most diverse and pluralistic nations in the world in terms of official languages, cultures, religions and social identities. Indians have for centuries exchanged ideas with other cultures globally and some traditions have been transformed in those transnational and transcultural encounters and become successful innovations with an extraordinary global popularity. India is an emerging global power in terms of economy, but in spite of India’s impressive economic growth over the last decades, some of the most serious problems of Indian society such as poverty, repression of women, inequality both in terms of living conditions and of opportunities such as access to education, employment, and the economic resources of the state persist and do not seem to go away. This Handbook contains chapters by the field’s foremost scholars dealing with fundamental issues in India’s current cultural and social transformation and concentrates on India as it emerged after the economic reforms and the new economic policy of the 1980s and 1990s and as it develops in the twenty-first century. Following an introduction by the editor, the book is divided into five parts: Part I: Foundation Part II: India and the world Part III: Society, class, caste and gender Part IV: Religion and diversity Part V: Cultural change and innovations Exploring the cultural changes and innovations relating a number of contexts in contemporary India, this Handbook is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Indian and South Asian culture, politics and society. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Contesting the Nation

Contesting the Nation
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 0812215850
ISBN-13 : 9780812215854
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Contesting the Nation by : David Ludden

Animated by a sense of urgency that was heightened by the massive violence following the destruction of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, Contesting the Nation explores Hindu majoritarian politics over the last century and its dramatic reformulation during the decline of the Congress Party in the 1980s.

The Urbanism of Exception

The Urbanism of Exception
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 421
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ISBN-10 : 9781316763902
ISBN-13 : 1316763900
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The Urbanism of Exception by : Martin J. Murray

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its origins in the grand Western experience of city-building. At the start of the twenty-first century, the familiar idea of the 'city' - or 'urbanism' as we know it - has experienced such profound mutations in both structure and form that the customary epistemological categories and prevailing conceptual frameworks that predominate in conventional urban theory are no longer capable of explaining the evolving patterns of city-making. Global urbanism has increasingly taken shape as vast, distended city-regions, where urbanizing landscapes are increasingly fragmented into discontinuous assemblages of enclosed enclaves characterized by global connectivity and concentrated wealth, on the one side, and distressed zones of neglect and impoverishment, on the other. These emergent patterns of what might be called enclave urbanism have gone hand-in-hand with the new modes of urban governance, where the crystallization of privatized regulatory regimes has effectively shielded wealthy enclaves from public oversight and interference.