Participolis: Consent and Contention in Neoliberal Urban India

✍ Scribed by Karen Coelho, Lalitha Kamath, M. Vijayabaskar

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 333
Series: Cities and the Urban Imperative
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Part I. Introduction: Politics and Citizenship in India’s New ‘Urban’
1. Opening up or Ushering in? Citizen Participation as Mandate and Practice in Urban Governance
2. Outside Capital, Inside the Urban? Notes and Queries on the Politics of the Present
Commentary 1. Permanence of the Temporary: Elite Utopia and Spatial Exclusion
Part II. Participation, Privatisation and Politics: Case Studies from Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad
3. Financialised and Insurgent: The Dialectics of Participation in Bangalore’s Neoliberal Water Reforms
4. From Watertight to Watered Down: The Case of Public Consultations and People’s Participation in Mumbai’s Water Distribution Improvement Project (WDIP)
5. Community Participation and Political Legitimacy: A Case Study from Hyderabad
Commentary 2. Participation and Consultation in the Context of Municipal Infrastructure Financing
Commentary 3. City Infrastructure Development and the ‘Spectator Sport’ of Citizen Participation
Part III. Class Claims: Civil Society and Split Citizenship in Urban India: Case Studies from Bangalore and Mumbai
6. Urban Reforms and the Middle Classes: Fragmented Collective Action and the Incomplete Project of Stakeholder Participation
7. Leveraging Mumbai: Global Finance, the State and Urban Politics
Commentary 4. Visioning a World-class Slum-free Mumbai: Who Participates?
Commentary 5. Middle-class Mobilisations: What Works?
Part IV. Democratisation, Decentralisation andBhagidari: Case Studies from Delhi
8. Participation as a Support to Neo-populism? The Case of the Bhagidari Scheme
9. RWAs and the Political Process in Delhi
Commentary 6. Middle-class Mobilisations, Urban Reforms, and the Politics of Bhagidari: Observations from New Delhi
Commentary 7. Direct Democracy versus Electoral Democracy: A View from Delhi
Part V. Anatomies of Consultative Processes: Case Studies from Chennai
10. Public Performances: Enacting Citizenship through Public Consultation for Chennai’s Second Master Plan
11. The Messy Practice of Participation: Lessons from the City Development Plan (CDP) Review in Chennai
Commentary 8. Consultations in Revising Chennai’s City Development Plan: Challenges and Insights
Commentary 9. No Public in Public Consultations
Coda. Participolis: Protest and Participation in the City
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Index

✦ Subjects

Sujata Patel

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Metaverse: Concept, Content and Context

📁 Metaverse: Concept, Content and Context

✍ Shenghui Cheng 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Springer 🌐 English

The metaverse, a hybrid society of the real and the virtual is attracting significant attention from academia to industry and is starting to change the world. Composed of ten chapters, this book introduces the metaverse from three aspects – concept, content and context. It starts with numer

Metaverse: Concept, Content and Context

📁 Metaverse: Concept, Content and Context

✍ Shenghui Cheng 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Springer Nature 🌐 English

The metaverse, a hybrid society of the real and the virtual is attracting significant attention from academia to industry and is starting to change the world. Composed of ten chapters, this book introduces the metaverse from three aspects – concept, content and context. It starts with numerous conce

Web 3.0: Concept, Content and Context

📁 Web 3.0: Concept, Content and Context

✍ Shenghui Cheng 📂 Library 📅 2024 🏛 Springer Nature Singapore 🌐 English

As technology continues to advance, the Internet is evolving into what is often referred to as Web 3.0. This book aims to achieve three main objectives, first, it introduces Web 3.0 systematically and comprehensively, providing readers with a foundational understanding of its concepts and characteri

Housing and Politics in Urban India Oppo

📁 Housing and Politics in Urban India Opportunities and Contention

✍ Swetha Rao Dhananka 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Aspirati

📁 Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Aspirations in Contemporary India

✍ Sujata Patel (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 OUP India 🌐 English

This volume brings together scholarship from different disciplines on the theme of neoliberalism. Contemporary neoliberal economic policy, it argues has increased inequalities and exclusions while providing opportunities to the upper sections of the society. In turn it has also cre

Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities an

📁 Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia

✍ Yi-Ling Chen, Hyun Bang Shin 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan US 🌐 English

Considering Asian cities ranging from Taipei, Hong Kong and Bangkok to Hanoi, Nanjing and Seoul, this collection discusses the socio-political processes of how neoliberalization entwines with local political economies and legacies of ‘developmental’ or ‘socialist’ statism to produce urban contest