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Participolis: Consent and Contention in Neoliberal Urban India book cover

1st Edition

Participolis Consent and Contention in Neoliberal Urban India

Edited By Karen Coelho, Lalitha Kamath, M. Vijayabaskar Copyright 2013
332 Pages
by Routledge India

332 Pages
by Routledge India

332 Pages
by Routledge India
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While participatory development has gained significance in urban planning and policy, it has been explored largely from the perspective of its prescriptive implementation. This book breaks new ground in critically examining the intended and unintended effects of the deployment of citizen participation and public consultation in neoliberal urban governance by the Indian state. The book... Read more

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 Karen Coelho, Lalitha Kamath and M. Vijayabaskar 2. Outside Capital, Inside the Urban? Notes and Queries on the Politics of the Present Satish Deshpande. Commentary 1. Permanence of the Temporary: Elite Utopia and Spatial Exclusion D. Ravikumar. 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 Malini Ranganathan 4. From Watertight to Watered Down: The Case of Public Consultations and People’s Participation in Mumbai’s Water Distribution Improvement Project (WDIP) Zainab Bawa 5. Community Participation and Political Legitimacy: A Case Study from Hyderabad Anant Maringanti. Commentary 2. Participation and Consultation in the Context of Municipal Infrastructure Financing K. Rajivan. Commentary 3. City Infrastructure Development and the ‘Spectator Sport’ of Citizen Participation Vinay Baindur. 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 Lalitha Kamath and M. Vijayabaskar 7. Leveraging Mumbai: Global Finance, the State and Urban Politics Stephen J. Young. Commentary 4. Visioning a World-class Slum-free Mumbai: Who Participates? Simpreet Singh. Commentary 5. Middle-class Mobilisations: What Works? Sebastian Devaraj. Part IV. Democratisation, Decentralisation and Bhagidari: Case Studies from Delhi

Biography

Karen Coelho is Assistant Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai.





Lalitha Kamath is Assistant Professor, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.





M. Vijayabaskar is Assistant Professor, MIDS, Chennai.

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