In Search of Home
Citizenship, Law and the Politics of the Poor
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Part of South Asia in the Social Sciences
- Author: Kaveri Haritas, OP Jindal Global University
- Date Published: October 2021
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108834049
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In Search of Home explores a new yet less explored space of urban poverty – rehabilitation housing for the displaced poor, which increasingly dots the peripheries of Indian cities. This longitudinal ethnography examines these new liminal zones suspended between a slum and the legal city, producing 'citizenship in-limbo' and relegating the poor to perpetual dependence on the state albeit legal residence. It examines how the flexible governance of such housing produces illegalities, and how state institutions and actors stand to gain through systemic corruption that co-opts urban poor groups, pre-empting radical resistance. This book makes central the gendered nature of such politics, detailing the everyday political work of women, vital to the development of poor neighbourhoods and political struggles for housing. This analysis of rehabilitation housing policies and their implementation, chronicles the myriad strategies employed by the urban poor, from documenting to political performances, in their struggles for a home.
Read more- A nuanced and granular understanding of life in rehabilitation housing, in the peripheries, margins of the city
- Provides different lens used in the disciplines of sociology, anthropology and development studies, to examine citizenship, law and politics of the poor
- Provides rich theoretical insights that contribute to existing theoretical frameworks and proposes new concepts
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- Date Published: October 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108834049
- length: 270 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 159 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.41kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. In-limbo
3. The informal market in rehabilitation housing
4. Gender and performative politics
5. Paper visibility and proof making
6. Conclusion.
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