Urban Poverty, Local Governance and Everyday Politics in Mumbai

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-20749-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Cities and the Urban Imperative

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Wit, Joop

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Joop de Wit is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Development Management, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS), The Hague, The Netherlands. An anthropologist, his research interests are political science, governance, policy issues, urban poverty and decentralization. He has published the books Poverty, Policy and Politics in Madras Slums: Dynamics of Survival, Gender and Leadership (1996) and New Forms of Urban Governance in India: Shifts, Models, Networks and Contestations (co-edited with I.S.A. Baud, 2008) as well as numerous articles.