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The Meaning of the Local - Politics of Place in Urban India (Paperback)
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By zooming in on urban localities in India and by unpacking the
'meaning of the local' for those who live in them, the ten papers
in this volume redress a recurrent asymmetry in contemporary
debates about globalisation. In much literature, the global is
associated with transnationalism, dynamism and activity, and the
local with static identities and history. Focusing on a range of
locales in India's metropolitan areas and provincial small towns,
the contributions move beyond the assertion that space is socially
constructed to explore the ways in which social and political
relations are themselves spatially and historically contingent.
Using detailed ethnography, the authors highlight the vitality of
place-making in the lives of urban dwellers and the centrality of a
'politics of place' in the production of power, difference and
inequality. The volume illustrates how urban spaces are
increasingly interconnected through wider social and spatial
processes, while local boundaries and group-based identities are at
the same time reconstructed, and often even consolidated, through
the use of 'traditional' idioms and localised practices. All
contributions relate detailed case studies of everyday activities
to a range of contemporary debates that highlight various spatial
aspects of cultural identities, economic restructuring and
political processes in India. The volume provides an
interdisciplinary perspective on urban life in rapidly changing
political and economic environments. It offers a contribution to
policy-orientated debates on urban livelihoods and urban planning
as well as a wealth of ethnographic material for those interested
in the spatial dimensions of urban life in India.
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