Urbanizing citizenship: contested spaces in Indian cities/ edited by Renu Desai, Romola Sanyal. - SAGE, 2011.

List of tables and figures --
Foreword / James holston --
Acknowledgements --
Introduction: urbanizing citizenship : contested spaces in Indian cities / Renu Desai and Romola Sanyal --
Governance and citizenship in the neoliberal city --
Entrepreneurial urbanism in the time of Hindutva : city imagineering, place marketing, and citizenship in Ahmedabad / Renu Desai --
Democratic urban citizenship and mega-project development in globalizing Mumbai / Liza Weinstein --
The politics of persuasion : gendered slum citizenship in neoliberal Mumbai / Sapana Doshi --
Reengineering citizenship : municipal reforms and the politics of "e-grievance redressal" in Karnataka's cities / Malini Ranganathan --
Protest and claims-making in the Indian city --
Clean air, dirty logic : environmental activism, citizenship, and the public sphere in Delhi / Sunalini Kumar --
Who operates and who agitate? : a class-wise investigation of contentious action and citizenship in Varanasi, India / Jolie M.F. Wood --
Linking urban vulnerability, extralegal security, and civil violence : the case of the urban dispossessed in Mumbai / Jaideep Gupte --
Displaced borders : shifting politics of squatting in Calcutta / Romola Sanyal --
Afterword: in other words : the Indian city and the promise of citizenship / Janaki Nair --
About the editors and contributors --
Index.

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