Mumbai / Bombay : majoritarian neoliberalism, informality, resistance, and wellbeing /

Mumbai / Bombay : majoritarian neoliberalism, informality, resistance, and wellbeing /

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Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xxii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cities and the urban imperative Cities and the urban imperative.
Subject:	City and town life -- India -- Mumbai. Neoliberalism -- India -- Mumbai. City and town life. Economic history. Neoliberalism. Politics and government. Social conditions. Mumbai (India) -- Social conditions. Mumbai (India) -- Economic conditions. Mumbai (India) -- Politics and government. India -- Mumbai.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12775056

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Other authors / contributors:	Patel, Sujata, editor. Parthasarathy, D., editor. Jose, George, editor.
ISBN:	9781032276694 103227669X 9781032276724 103227672X 9781000595000 9781000594973 9781003293651
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Mumbai / Bombay is a quintessential urban expression which represents the questions and puzzles related to Indian urbanity. This book traces the various ways through which majoritarianism and neoliberal capitalist accumulation has reorganised Bombay or Mumbai in India. The book assesses Mumbai's present trajectories and processes as being embedded in its recent past. It looks at these changes by exploring work and labour; health and education; spatial planning and infrastructural development; politics and identity; and shows how financialisation, land speculation, deregulation, and informality have impacted the city's culture and everyday living. The contributors to this volume analyse the consequences of these changes for women and men across ages, as they live their material and cultural lives; evaluate the role of the changing nature of work, urban infrastructure, and planning; determine its outcome for public health and education; and take a measure of its manifestation in the field of arts and culture. The volume explores the processes that reorient these changes, the socio-spatial and political implications of these on the inhabitants of the city, and the resistance and response to marginalisation. This interdisciplinary volume will interest students and researchers of economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, public policy, development studies, and urban studies. It will also be useful to urban practitioners, planners, bureaucrats, activists, and general readers.
Other form:	ebook version : 9781000595000

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Summary:	1. Bombay is an old colonial and mercantile city. This book brings into conversation social scientists and critical commentators that have been researching the city for decades to produce papers that are empirically grounded and integrated with contemporary urban theory. 2. Its canvass is wide, covering economy, politics and culture and it combines a mix of methods to comprehend this dynamic - locating the contemporary history of Bombay in terms of the intersecting local, regional and national processes and analysing the impact of neoliberalism in terms of spatial geographies, wellbeing of its population and emerging cultures of urbanity. 3. Given the global interest in Bombay, this book will be of interest to departments of economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, urban studies across the UK and USA.
Physical Description:	xxii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781032276694 103227669X 9781032276724 103227672X 9781000595000 9781000594973 9781003293651