In the public's interest : evictions, citizenship, and inequality in contemporary Delhi /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bhan, Gautam, author.
Imprint:	Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 30 Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 30.
Subject:	Internally displaced persons -- India -- Delhi -- Social conditions. Forced migration -- India -- Delhi. Urban poor -- India -- Delhi. Equality -- India -- Delhi. City planning and redevelopment law -- India -- Delhi. Urban poor -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- India -- Delhi. City planning and redevelopment law. Equality. Forced migration. Urban poor. India -- Delhi. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11383942

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	9780820350080 0820350087 9780820350097 0820350095 9780820350103 0820350109
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-272) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This book studies the recent legacy of basti "evictions" in Delhi--mass clearings of some of the city's poorest neighborhoods--as a way to understand how the urban poor are disenfranchised in the name of "public interest" and, in the case of Delhi, by the very courts meant to empower and protect them. Studying bastes, says Gautam Bhan, provokes six clear lines of inquiry applicable to studies of urbanism across the global south. The first is the long-standing debate over urban informality and illegality: the debate's impact on conceptions and practices of urban planning, the production of space, and the regulation of value. The second is a set of debates on "good governance," read through their intersections with ideas of "planned development" within rapidly transforming cities. The third is the political field of urban citizenship and the possibilities of substantive rights and belonging in the city. The fourth is resistance and the ability of a city's subaltern residents to struggle against exclusion. The two remaining inquiries both cut across and unify the first four. One of these is the role of the judiciary and the relationships between law and urbanism in cities of the global south. The other is the relationship between democracy and inequality in the city. What emerges about Delhi in particular are a set of new modes for the reproduction of inequality. When rights are lost, citizenship is unequal and differentiated, the promise of development is refused, and poverty and inequality are reproduced and deepened. The task at hand, says Bhan, is not just to explain evictions but also to listen to what they are telling us about "the city that is as well as the city that can be."
Other form:	Print version: Bhan, Gautam. In the public's interest. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2016 9780820350097

Table of Contents:

Introduction: "how did we get here?"
Planned illegalities : the production of housing in Delhi 1947-2010
Planned development and/as crisis : evictions and the politics of governance in contemporary Delhi
Unmaking citizens : spatial illegality, urban citizenship and the challenges for inclusive politics
"You can't just walk into a court" : notes on the judicialisation of resistance
Concluding provocations : inquiries from the South
Notes
References
Index.

In the public's interest : evictions, citizenship, and inequality in contemporary Delhi /

Similar Items