Urban Renewal in India - Accommodating People, Ideas Lifeworlds in Mumbai s Redeveloping

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. The monumental everyday
3. The promise and the burden of the law
4. Living in a climate of suspicion
5. Stacking classes I
6. Stacking classes II
7. Strange food, strange smells, strange people?
8. Epilogue

About the author

Pablo Holwitt acts as Resident Representative of the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, Germany at its New Delhi Branch Office, India. His research interests include urban politics, sensory ethnography and changing class formations in Indian society.

Summary

This book interrogates contemporary processes of neoliberal urban renewal in the Global South by studying the model of chawl-redevelopment in Mumbai, India.

Product details

• Authors: Pablo Holwitt
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781032400303
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240030-3
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Series on Urban South Asia
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, EDUCATION / Urban, India, Urban communities, Regional Geography, Urban communities / city life