Urbanizing Citizenship : Contested Spaces in

Urbanizing Citizenship provokes a critical discussion on urbanism(s) in India using urban citizenship as a lens of interrogation. Bringing together an interdisciplinary and emerging group of scholars working on India, this book looks at six cities-Ahmedabad, peri-urban Bangalore, Calcutta, Delhi, Mumbai and Varanasi-and examines a range of processes: urban renewal, participatory slum resettlement, municipal reforms, city imagineering, urban environmentalism, squatting policies, urban protest and civil violence. Through ethnographies and histories of the urban, this book unsettles theories generated in the Euro-American context to show how urban citizenship might be differently practiced, understood and reconfigured within the Indian context.

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction: Urbanizing Citizenship: Contested Spaces in Indian Cities	p. 1
Governance and Citizenship in the Neoliberal City
Entrepreneurial Urbanism in the Time of Hindutva: City Imagineering, Place Marketing, and Citizenship in Ahmedabad	p. 31
Democratic Urban Citizenship and Mega-project Development in Globalizing Mumbai	p. 58
The Politics of Persuasion: Gendered Slum Citizenship in Neoliberal Mumbai	p. 82
Reengineering Citizenship: Municipal Reforms and the Politics of 'e-Grievance Redressal' in Karnataka's Cities	p. 109
Protest and Claims-making in the Indian City
Clean Air, Dirty Logic? Environmental Activism, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere in Delhi	p. 135
Who Operates and Who Agitates? A Class-wise Investigation of Contentious Action and Citizenship in Varanasi, India	p. 161
Linking Urban Vulnerability, Extralegal Security, and Civil Violence: The Case of the Urban Dispossessed in Mumbai	p. 190
Displaced Borders: Shifting Politics of Squatting in Calcutta	p. 212
Afterword: In Other Words: The Indian City and the Promise of Citizenship	p. 229
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 237
Index	p. 240
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Urbanizing Citizenship : Contested Spaces in Indian Cities

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