In Search of Home - Citizenship, Law and the Politics of the Poor

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. In-limbo; 3. The informal market in rehabilitation housing; 4. Gender and performative politics; 5. Paper visibility and proof making; 6. Conclusion.

About the author

Kaveri Haritas is Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, at the OP Jindal Global University, Haryana. Her research focuses on urban poverty; housing, land and property rights; gender; and law and citizenship in India. She is an anthropologist and draws inspiration from legal and political anthropology. Her past research has included solidarity economy practices of women in India and technology and its impacts on employment in India. She has been a north–south mobility fellow at the Institute for Research on Development, Paris.

Summary

Explores new, yet less explored space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing that houses the displaced poor and increasingly dots the peripheries of Indian cities and examines the politics of the poor focusing on law, citizenship and gender. It studies how the state produces illegalities, and how state institutions and actors stand to gain.

Product details

• Authors: Kaveri Haritas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108834049
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83404-9
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: South Asia in the Social Sciences; South Asia in the Social Scien
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, India, Poverty & unemployment, Civil rights & citizenship, Urban communities, Civics and citizenship, Housing & homelessness, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness