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Author Rao Dhananka, Swetha, author

Title Housing and politics in urban India : opportunities and contention / Swetha Rao Dhananka
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 232 pages)
Summary "Providing adequate housing in an increasingly urbanized world is a major challenge in current times. Housing and Politics in Urban India 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, it 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. The book attempts to map India's political opportunities and closures for claim making in general and housing grievances in particular. It offers a comprehensive insight into community processes and the imbricated worlds of formal policy prescription, implementation, and informal practices of negotiation and political loyalties that affect housing provisions for the urban poor"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2020)
Subject Low-income housing -- India
Housing policy -- India
Urban poor -- India
Urban policy -- India
Housing policy.
Low-income housing.
Urban policy.
Urban poor.
India.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020013854
ISBN 9781108594677
1108594670
9781108633819
1108633811