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Urban Renewal in India - Accommodating People, Ideas and Lifeworlds in Mumbai's Redeveloping Chawls (Paperback)
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Urban Renewal in India - Accommodating People, Ideas and Lifeworlds in Mumbai's Redeveloping Chawls (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Series on Urban South Asia
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This book interrogates contemporary processes of neoliberal urban
renewal in the Global South by studying the model of chawl
redevelopment in Mumbai, India. The model of chawl redevelopment is
used to address questions surrounding contemporary urban renewal.
Focusing on attempts to redevelop Mumbais central middle-class
neighbourhoods, popularly known as Girgaum, into a modern downtown
of a global metropolis, the author sheds light on the impact this
development model has on the everyday lives of people inhabiting
transformed urban environments. He examines, from an ethnographic
perspective, apparently contradictory intentions of planners,
investors, residents, activists and politicians. A combination of
detailed and vivid ethnographic accounts and incisive theoretical
arguments, the book shows that the highly contested and
controversial approach of chawl redevelopment serves as an example
of the manifold ideological tendencies in India today, and how they
combine, clash and continuously shape each other in surprising and
unpredictable ways. Offering new insights in the topics of class
dynamics in the era of globalization and neoliberalism, urban
gating, sense studies, and urban politics in South Asia, this book
will be of interest to academics working on South Asian Studies,
Anthropology, Sociology, as well as Urban and Global Studies.
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