Urban navigations : Politics, space and the city in South Asia
, politique de la ville, espace urbain, urbanité, néolibéralisme, mutation urbaine, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Lahore, Islamabad, Kathmandu, Colombo, Dhaka, Katmandou, Dacca, Bombay, Anjaria Jonathan Shapiro, McFarlane Colin
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> This book provides an important account of how the city in South Asia is produced, lived and contested. It examines the diverse lived experiences of urban South Asia through a focus on contestations over urban space, resources and habitation, bringing together accounts from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. In contrast to accounts that attribute urban transformation mainly to neoliberal globalisation, this book vividly demonstrates how neoliberalism functions as one of the many drivers of urban change.<br /> <br /> This edited volume brings together an interdisciplinary and international range of established and emerging scholars working on the city in South Asia. To date, South Asian urban studies privilege a handful of cities, particularly in India, overlooking the great diversity, as well as commonalities, of urban experiences spanning the region. Thus, in addition to chapters on New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, this volume contains critical urban chapters on less-studied cities such as Lahore, Islamabad, Kathmandu, Colombo and Dhaka. The volume insists that a fresh look at contemporary changes in cities in South Asia requires careful consideration of the specificity of the city, as well as a comparative perspective. It provides a sense not only of the new forms of urbanism emerging in contemporary South Asia, but also sheds light on new theoretical possibilities and directions to make sense of transnational processes and urban change.</div> </div> <b>Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria </b>is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard College, New York.</div> <b>Colin McFarlane </b>is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Durham University.</div> </div>
NC
Routledge
April 2011
360
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Social formation in Dhaka, 1985 - 2005 : A longitudinal study of society in a Third World megacity
Dhaka, Dacca, urbanisation, société urbaine, pays en développement, developing countries, pauvreté, mégapole, Siddiqui Kamal
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> By the middle of the twenty-first century, more than fifty per cent of the world's population will live in an urban environment. Most of this new urban growth will take place in Asia and Africa, yet most governments in these two continents seem woefully unprepared for the challenges they will face in providing their urban citizens with the basic services and security from poverty, environmental degradation and crime. It is in this context that in-depth studies which lay bare the contours and characteristics of society and institutions in the urban setting of Third World countries assume importance and urgency.</div> <br /> Most studies on urbanisation in developing countries concentrate on slums and shanty towns in isolation from the rest of the society. By contrast, Social Formation in Dhaka, 1985-2005 analyses urbanisation and urban society in a holistic manner, connecting the poor with the non-poor and delineating the change agents of the city. As the first longitudinal study of the social structure of any Third World Megacity, this book will be of interest to urban sociologists, policy-makers, NGOs, and researchers engaged in understanding the development in cities in the global south.</div> </div> <b>Kamal Siddiqui </b>is Associate Professor and Director of the Governance Programme at the University of South Pacific, Fiji.</div> </div>
Kamal Siddiqui et al
Ashgate
November 2010
420
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