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In the Public’s Interest
Evictions, Citizenship, and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi
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Artikel-Nr:
9780820350103
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.11.2016
Seiten:
308
Autor:
Gautam Bhan
Gewicht:
310 g
Format:
226x154x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
GAUTAM BHAN is a senior consultant for academics and research at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. He is the coeditor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South; coauthor (with Kalyani Menon-Sen) of Swept off the Map: Surviving Eviction and Resettlement in Delhi; and coeditor (with Arvind Narrain) of Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India.
Studies the recent legacy of basti "evictions” in Delhi - mass clearings of some of the city's poorest neighbourhoods as a way to understand how the urban poor are disenfranchised in the name of "public interest” and, in the case of Delhi, by the very courts meant to empower and protect them.