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Neighbourhoods in Urban India

by Sadan Jha
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789390252626
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury India
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury India
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 336
  • Original Price: INR 1299.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 350 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / Urban

‘…A brilliant exploration of urbanism between the concept city and the lived city.… The volume focuses on urban life lived between home and the world, institutions and experiences, representations and affects…. its fascinating range of empirically rich and analytically sophisticated excavations of neighborhoods make the volume a must-have in the bookshelf on South Asian urban studies.’ —Gyan Prakash, Princeton University ‘a must-read for those who wish to study the micro aspects of contemporary urbanity.’ —br>Sujata Patel, Savitribai Phule Pune University ‘This book is a powerful addition to the study of Indian urbanism.’ —Ravi Sundaram, centre for the study of developing societies (csds) in the last couple of decades, the global South, in general, and India, in particular, have witnessed a massive growth of cities. In India, more than one-third of its population lives in cities. However, urban development, growth and expansion are not merely about infrastructures and enlargement of cityscapes. This edited volume focuses on neighborhoods, their particularities and their role in shaping our understanding of the urban in India. It locates Indian experiences in the larger context of the global South and seeks to decentre the dominant Euro-American discourse of urban social life. Neighborhoods in urban India: in between home and the City offers an understanding of neighborhoods as changing socio-spatial units in their specific regional settings by underlining the way value regimes (religiosity and subjectivities) give neighborhoods their social meanings and stereotypes. It unpacks discourses and knowledge practices, such as planning, architecture and urban discourses of governance. It further discloses the linkages and disjunctures between the social practices of neighbourhood and the language, logic and experiences of dwelling, housing, urban planning and governance, and focuses on the particularities and heterogeneities of neighbourhood and neighbourliness.

Dr. Sadan Jha is Associate Professor at Centre for Social Studies, Surat. He is trained in the discipline of history (modern Indian history) and his research interests are in two broad areas: history of visuality and contemporary urban experience. In these fields, he has been working on history of symbols and icons, nation and nationalism, literature, history of colours, contemporary Surat and its transformation in recent decades.

Dev Nath Pathak teaches Sociology at South Asian University and is a founding faculty member of the university's Department of Sociology. His current research interests include popular culture (music, cinema and performance) and South Asian studies. He is Reviews Editor of
Society and Culture in South Asia (the journal of Department of Sociology, South Asian University, co-published with SAGE India). Some of his recent publications include Living & Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore (2018), Another South Asia! (2018), Culture and Politics in South Asia: Performative Communication (co-edited, 2017) and Sociology and Social Anthropology in South Asia: Histories and Practices (co-edited, 2018).

Dr. Amiya Kumar Das teaches Sociology at Tezpur University, Assam. His main research is broadly in the areas of sociology of governance, development sociology and sociology of health and illness.

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