Entangled Urbanism

Slum, Gated Community, and Shopping Mall In Delhi and Gurgaon

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9780198099147

Publication date:

15/12/2014

Hardback

364 pages

216.0x140.0mm

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ISBN:

9780198099147

Publication date:

15/12/2014

Hardback

364 pages

216.0x140.0mm

First Edition

Sanjay Srivastava

While it is difficult to grasp the particular essence of a city, its identity lies in its spaces, temporalities, and transformations—different from each other yet enmeshed in tangible and surreal ways that define both the dynamism and instability of its inhabitants. Entangled Urbanism looks at various sites in Delhi and the National Capital Region, unravelling the politics of settlement, construction, demolition, and exclusion along these locations through a twinned discourse of modernity and development. 

Suitable for: The primary market for this book will be the departments of sociology, urban studies, demography, population, culture studies and geography. Apart from institutions, this book will be of interest to  students, teachers, and scholars of political science, policymakers, and media professionals.   

Rights:  World Rights

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Description

While it is difficult to grasp the particular essence of a city, its identity lies in its spaces, temporalities, and transformations—different from each other yet enmeshed in tangible and surreal ways that define both the dynamism and instability of its inhabitants. Entangled Urbanism looks at various sites in Delhi and the National Capital Region, unravelling the politics of settlement, construction, demolition, and exclusion along these locations through a twinned discourse of modernity and development. What emerges from this combination of fieldwork and historical analysis is an exploration of the ways in which these contrasting spaces connect with each other: What processes link consumerism, the middle classes, and the urban poor?  How do the pleasures of the gated residential enclaves encompass the pain of the demolished slum locality? What kind of city is produced by the relationship between illegal settlements such as slums, fake documents that seek to stave off demolition and representatives of the legal city such as Residents Welfare Associations? Covering issues like notions of citizenship; symbolic order of the nation-state; rituals of suburban life; and emergent relations between middle classes, the state, and the market, this work captures the myriad overlapping meanings of the city in all its fragments. 

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Table of contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
LIST OF FIGURES 
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 
 
Introduction: Slums, Criminal Suburbs, Urban Bodies, and
'Superb Housing Schemes' for People
with 'Modern Outlook' 
 
I Spaces of the Periphery, Subjects of the Centre
 
1. A Hijra, a Female Pradhan, and a Real Estate Dealer:
'Slum' Lives between the Market, the State, and 'Community'
 
2. Duplicity, Intimacy, Community: An Ethnography
of ID Cards, Permits, and other Fake Documents
 
3. At First Remove: Rumours of a Demolition 
 
 
II Post-Nationalism, Bhagidars, Consumer-Citizens,
the Mohalla, Bedrooms, and Kitchens
 
4. Post-Nationalism: Urban Spaces, Consumerism,
and Middle-Class Activism in Delhi 
 
5. National Identity, Bedrooms, and Kitchens 
 
 
6. Plenitude, Decrepitude, and Unruly Villagers:
People Want a Community, But Not Like a Mohalla
 
7. 'Lifestyle Choices in Harmony': Gated Biographies 
 
 
III Consuming Cultures and Urban Spaces: Between
the Basti and the Mall
 
8. Classifying Spaces, Specifying Classes: Citizens,
the State, and Disney-Divinity in Delhi
 
9. High Streets, Low Places, and Indian Roots: Shopping
Malls and the Narratives of Space
 
10. Shop Talk: Shopping Mall Publics
 
11. 'Revolution Forever': Consumerism and Object
Lessons for the Urban Poor
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR  

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Features

  • A timely study of the urbanization process of Delhi
  • Analyses a wide range of issues
  • Discusses all aspects of the process of urbanization - from gated communities, to malls, to consumerism

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First Edition

Sanjay Srivastava

Entangled Urbanism View larger

First Edition

Sanjay Srivastava

Description

While it is difficult to grasp the particular essence of a city, its identity lies in its spaces, temporalities, and transformations—different from each other yet enmeshed in tangible and surreal ways that define both the dynamism and instability of its inhabitants. Entangled Urbanism looks at various sites in Delhi and the National Capital Region, unravelling the politics of settlement, construction, demolition, and exclusion along these locations through a twinned discourse of modernity and development. What emerges from this combination of fieldwork and historical analysis is an exploration of the ways in which these contrasting spaces connect with each other: What processes link consumerism, the middle classes, and the urban poor?  How do the pleasures of the gated residential enclaves encompass the pain of the demolished slum locality? What kind of city is produced by the relationship between illegal settlements such as slums, fake documents that seek to stave off demolition and representatives of the legal city such as Residents Welfare Associations? Covering issues like notions of citizenship; symbolic order of the nation-state; rituals of suburban life; and emergent relations between middle classes, the state, and the market, this work captures the myriad overlapping meanings of the city in all its fragments. 

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Table of contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
LIST OF FIGURES 
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 
 
Introduction: Slums, Criminal Suburbs, Urban Bodies, and
'Superb Housing Schemes' for People
with 'Modern Outlook' 
 
I Spaces of the Periphery, Subjects of the Centre
 
1. A Hijra, a Female Pradhan, and a Real Estate Dealer:
'Slum' Lives between the Market, the State, and 'Community'
 
2. Duplicity, Intimacy, Community: An Ethnography
of ID Cards, Permits, and other Fake Documents
 
3. At First Remove: Rumours of a Demolition 
 
 
II Post-Nationalism, Bhagidars, Consumer-Citizens,
the Mohalla, Bedrooms, and Kitchens
 
4. Post-Nationalism: Urban Spaces, Consumerism,
and Middle-Class Activism in Delhi 
 
5. National Identity, Bedrooms, and Kitchens 
 
 
6. Plenitude, Decrepitude, and Unruly Villagers:
People Want a Community, But Not Like a Mohalla
 
7. 'Lifestyle Choices in Harmony': Gated Biographies 
 
 
III Consuming Cultures and Urban Spaces: Between
the Basti and the Mall
 
8. Classifying Spaces, Specifying Classes: Citizens,
the State, and Disney-Divinity in Delhi
 
9. High Streets, Low Places, and Indian Roots: Shopping
Malls and the Narratives of Space
 
10. Shop Talk: Shopping Mall Publics
 
11. 'Revolution Forever': Consumerism and Object
Lessons for the Urban Poor
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR  

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