Urban poverty, local governance and everyday politics in Mumbai
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Urban poverty, local governance and everyday politics in Mumbai
（Cities and the urban imperative）（A Routledge India original）
Routledge, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-311) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores the informal (political) patronage relations between the urban poor and service delivery organisations in Mumbai, India. It examines the conditions of people in the slums and traces the extent to which they are subject to social and political exclusion. Delving into the roles of the slum-based mediators and municipal councillors, it brings out the problems in the functioning of democracy at the ground level, as election candidates target vote banks with freebies and private-sector funding to manage their campaigns. Starting from social justice concerns, this book combines theory and insights from disciplines as diverse as political science, anthropology and policy studies. It provides a comprehensive, multi-level overview of the various actors within local municipal governance and democracy as also consequences for citizenship, urban poverty, gender relations, public services, and neoliberal politics.
Lucid and rich in ethnographic data, this book will be useful to scholars, researchers and students of social anthropology, urban studies, urban sociology, political science, public policy and governance, as well as practitioners and policymakers.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 Locating Mumbai's poor in urban governance, politics and informality
2 Mumbai megacity: city, people and governance changes
3 Included and excluded: Mumbai's poor and slum dynamics
4 Political entrepreneurs: the Mumbai corporators in their political and financial context
5 Politics or poli-tricks? Local democracy and slumvoting in the 2012 Mumbai municipal elections
Conclusions: 'the poor pray for miracles, the rich think they have a right to them'
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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