Housing and Politics in Urban India: Opportunities and Contention (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108484268)

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-à-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.

Author: Swetha Rao Dhananka
ISBN-10: 1108484263
ISBN-13: 9781108484268
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2021
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.70w x 0.80d