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Neighbourhoods in Urban India : In Between Home and the City

Author :  Sadan Jha, Dev Nath Pathak, Amiya Kumar Das

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Country
India
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
ISBN 9789390252626
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2021
Bib. Info xiii,326p.; 23cm. Includes Index
Product Weight 650 gms.
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In the last couple of decades, the global South, in general, and India, in particular, have witnessed a massive growth of cities. In India, more than one-third of its population lives in cities. However, urban development, growth and expansion are not merely about infrastructures and enlargement of cityscapes. This edited volume focuses on neighbourhoods, their particularities and their role in shaping our understanding of the urban in India. It locates Indian experiences in the larger context of the global South and seeks to decentre the dominant Euro-American discourse of urban social life. Neighbourhoods in Urban India: In Between Home and the City offers an understanding of neighbourhoods as changing socio-spatial units in their specific regional settings by underlining the way value regimes (religiosity and subjectivities) give neighbourhoods their social meanings and stereotypes. It unpacks discourses and knowledge practices, such as planning, architecture and urban discourses of governance. It further discloses the linkages and disjunctures between the social practices of neighbourhoods and the language, logic and experiences of dwelling, housing, urban planning and governance, and focuses on the particularities and heterogeneities of neighbourhoods and neighbourliness.

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