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Author Coelho, Karen

Title Participolis Consent and Contention in Neoliberal Urban India
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (333 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 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 -- 2. Outside Capital, Inside the Urban? Notes and Queries on the Politics of the Present -- Commentary 1. Permanence of the Temporary: Elite Utopia and Spatial Exclusion -- 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 -- 4. From Watertight to Watered Down: The Case of Public Consultations and People's Participation in Mumbai's Water Distribution Improvement Project (WDIP) -- 5. Community Participation and Political Legitimacy: A Case Study from Hyderabad -- Commentary 2. Participation and Consultation in the Context of Municipal Infrastructure Financing -- Commentary 3. City Infrastructure Development and the 'Spectator Sport' of Citizen Participation
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 -- 7. Leveraging Mumbai: Global Finance, the State and Urban Politics -- Commentary 4. Visioning a World-class Slum-free Mumbai: Who Participates? -- Commentary 5. Middle-class Mobilisations: What Works? -- Part IV. Democratisation, Decentralisation andBhagidari: Case Studies from Delhi
8. Participation as a Support to Neo-populism? The Case of the Bhagidari Scheme -- 9. RWAs and the Political Process in Delhi -- Commentary 6. Middle-class Mobilisations, Urban Reforms, and the Politics of Bhagidari: Observations from New Delhi -- Commentary 7. Direct Democracy versus Electoral Democracy: A View from Delhi -- Part V. Anatomies of Consultative Processes: Case Studies from Chennai -- 10. Public Performances: Enacting Citizenship through Public Consultation for Chennai's Second Master Plan
11. The Messy Practice of Participation: Lessons from the City Development Plan (CDP) Review in Chennai -- Commentary 8. Consultations in Revising Chennai's City Development Plan: Challenges and Insights -- Commentary 9. No Public in Public Consultations -- Coda. Participolis: Protest and Participation in the City -- About the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Kamath, Lalitha
Vijayabaskar, M
ISBN 9781000084368
1000084361