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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 July 2021
      07 October 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108991612
      9781108834049
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108991612
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 270 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Asian Studies, Political Sociology, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
      Series:
      South Asia in the Social Sciences (15)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Asian Studies, Political Sociology, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
    Series:
    South Asia in the Social Sciences (15)
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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.

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