Urban studies
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Urban studies
(Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology)(Oxford India paperbacks)
Oxford University Press, c2009
- : pbk.
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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  United States of America
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Summary: Contributed articles
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is part of the Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology series that brings together scholarly writings on important themes in sociology and social anthropology. Urban Studies deals with the sociological study of the Indian city and Urbanism. It draws from some of the most influential studies conducted on Indian cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata. It includes conceptual pieces on the making of the urban in
India. Aspects of city life-planning, building, industry, trading, migration and health - are treated thematically, along with aspects of mass culture including films and the arts. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of urban sociology as well as policy planners, economic
sociologists, culture studies scholars and activists.
Table of Contents
- SECTION I - THE CONTEMPORARY URBAN PROCESS
- 1. THE COLONIAL BUNGALOW-COMPOUND COMPLEX IN INDIA: A STUDY IN THE CULTURAL USE OF SPACE (ANTHONY D. KING)
- 2. URBANIZATION IN INDIA: PATTERNS AND EMERGING POLICY ISSUES (RAKESH MOHAN)
- 3. DUALISTIC LABOUR SYSTEM? A CRITIQUE OF THE 'INFORMAL SECTOR' CONCEPT (JAN BREMAN)
- 4. REFORMS, RESTRUCTURING AND THE THIRD WORLD CITY (ATIYA HABEEB KIDWAI)
- 5. TIME FOR WORK AND LABOUR (JIM MASSELOS)
- SECTION II - THE INDIAN METROPOLIS
- 6. STRUCTURED INEQUALITIES IN A NORTH INDIAN CITY (ADRIAN PEACE)
- 7. CAPITAL, THE STATE, AND PETTY TRADING IN CALCUTTA (NANDINI DASGUPTA)
- 8. THE WORKING POOR AND THE LABOUR ARISTOCRACY IN A SOUTH INDIAN CITY: A DESCRIPTIVE AND ANALYTICAL ACCOUNT (JOHN HARISS)
- 9. DILAPIDATION AND SLUM FORMATION (RATNA NAIDU)
- 10. TOWN PLANNING, PUBLIC HEALTH AND DELHI'S URBAN POOR: A HISTORICAL VIEW (RITU PRIYA)
- SECTION III - URBAN SPACE, THE STATE, POLITICS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION
- 11. BOMBAY AND MUMBAI: IDENTITIES, POLITICS, AND POPULISM (SUJATA PATEL)
- 12. ECONOMY AND CIVIC AUTHORITY IN SURAT (GHANSHYAM SHAH)
- 13. URBAN CONQUEST OF OUTER DELHI: BENEFICIARIES, INTERMEDIARIES AND VICTIMS: THE CASE OF THE MEHRAULI COUNTRYSIDE (ANITA SONI)
- 14. CITY CONFLICTS AND COMMUNAL POLITICS: AHMEDABAD 1985-86 (SUJATA PATEL)
- 15. THE CASE OF HYDERABAD CITY (KUSHAL DEB)
- SECTION IV - URBAN CULTURE
- 16. NINETEENTH CENTURY CALCUTTA: FOLK CULTURE (SUMANTO BANERJEE)
- 17. DINING OUT IN BOMBAY/MUMBAI: AN EXPLORATION OF AN INDIAN CITY'S PUBLIC CULTURE (FRANK F. CONLON)
- 18. CONSUMING UTOPIA (FILM WATCHING IN TAMIL NADU (SARA DICKEY)
- 19. THE FIGURE OF THE BOMBAY TAPORI: LANGUAGE, GESTURE AND THE CINEMATIC CITY (RANJANI MAZUMDAR)
- 20. 'YOU CAN BE LONELY IN A CROWD': THE PRODUCTION OF SAFETY IN MUMBAI (SHILPA PHADKE)
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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