The Politics of Housing in Urban India

Opportunites and Contention

• Author(s): Swetha Rao Dhananka,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 248
• ISBN_10: 1108484263
  ISBN_13: 9781108484268
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Economics / General , Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development , Political Science / World / General , Social Science / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Sociology / Urban ,

Description:... Providing adequate housing in an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge of current times. This book 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-...-vis the formal institutional opportunities and closures of Indian democracy. In doing so, this research 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.