Description
| Product ID: | 9781108834049 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | South Asia in the Social Sciences |
| Title: | In Search of Home |
| Subtitle: | Citizenship, Law and the Politics of the Poor |
| Authors: | Author: Kaveri Haritas |
| Page Count: | 270 |
| Subjects: | Poverty and precarity, Poverty & unemployment, Housing and homelessness, Urban communities, Civics and citizenship, Housing & homelessness, Urban communities, Civil rights & citizenship, India |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Explores new, yet less explored space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing that houses the displaced poor and increasingly dots the peripheries of Indian cities and examines the politics of the poor focusing on law, citizenship and gender. It studies how the state produces illegalities, and how state institutions and actors stand to gain. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-10-07 |
