1st Edition
Urban Renewal in India Accommodating People, Ideas and Lifeworlds in Mumbai's Redeveloping Chawls
By Pablo Holwitt
Copyright 2020
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book interrogates contemporary processes of neoliberal urban renewal in the Global South by studying the model of chawl redevelopment in Mumbai, India. The model of chawl redevelopment is used to address questions surrounding contemporary urban renewal. Focusing on attempts to redevelop Mumbai´s central middle-class neighbourhoods, popularly known as Girgaum, into a modern downtown of a... Read more
1. Introduction
2. The monumental everyday
3. The promise and the burden of the law
4. Living in a climate of suspicion
5. Stacking classes I
6. Stacking classes II
7. Strange food, strange smells, strange people?
8. Epilogue
Biography
Pablo Holwitt acts as Resident Representative of the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, Germany at its New Delhi Branch Office, India. His research interests include urban politics, sensory ethnography and changing class formations in Indian society.
