Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community, and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon

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While it is difficult to grasp the particular essence of a city, its identity lies in its spaces, temporalities, and transformations – different from each other yet enmeshed in tangible and surreal ways that define both the dynamism and instability of its inhabitants. Entangled Urbanism looks at various sites in Delhi and the National Capital Region, unravelling the politics of settlement, construction, demolition, and exclusion along these locations through a twinned discourse of modernity and development.

What emerges from this combination of fieldwork and historical analysis is an exploration of the ways in which these contrasting spaces connect with each other: What processes link consumerism, the middle classes, and the urban poor? How do the pleasures of the gated residential enclaves encompass the pain of the demolished slum locality? What kind of city is produced by the relationship between illegal settlements such as slums, fake documents that seek to stave off demolition and representatives of the legal city such as Residents Welfare Associations? Covering issues like notions of citizenship, symbolic order of the nation-state; rituals of suburban life; and emergent relations between middle classes, the state, and the market, this work captures the myriad overlapping meanings of the city in all its fragments.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sanjay Srivastava

Sanjay Srivastava is Professor of Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the co-editor of Contributions to Indian Sociology and also associated with the sociology unit of the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.

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Title
Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community, and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
0198099142, 9780198099147
Length
364p., Illustrations; 23cm.
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