Housing and Politics in Urban India

Housing and Politics in Urban India
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9781108633819
ISBN-13 : 1108633811
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Book Synopsis Housing and Politics in Urban India by : Swetha Rao Dhananka

Download or read book Housing and Politics in Urban India written by Swetha Rao Dhananka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing adequate housing in an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge of current times. This book puts together a compelling story based on fine-grained analysis of housing processes, as lived by slum-dwellers and their voice-bearers. It situates the lived experience of claiming adequate housing within informal transactions and negotiations of patronage networks vis-à-vis the formal institutional opportunities and closures of Indian democracy. In doing so, this research extends an innovative array of conceptual and methodological tools to grasp the context in which housing claims succeed and fail. This book contributes by responding to critical areas of social movement scholarship and by displaying community engagements and tactical strategies to bring about transformative change to claim adequate housing and resist co-opting forces for socially sustainable housing futures.


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