Gautam Bhan

Broschiertes Buch

In the Public's Interest

Evictions, Citizenship, and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9780820350103
• ISBN-10: 0820350109
• Artikelnr.: 44636664