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  • In the Public's Interest

    Evictions, Citizenship, and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi

    by Gautam Bhan ...
    Series Book 30 - Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
    This book studies the recent legacy of basti “evictions” in Delhi—mass clearings of some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods—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. Studying bastes, says Gautam Bhan, provokes six clear lines of inquiry applicable to studies of ... Read more

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  • Cities Rethought

    A New Urban Disposition

    In a world of disruptions and seemingly endless complexity, cities have become central to thinking about the future of humanity. Yet the study of cities is fragmented among different silos of expertise, diverse genres of scholarship, and widening chasms between theory and practice. How can we do better?Cities Rethought suggests that we need to remake the way we see and know cities in order to ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts. In doing so, its intention is not to fill a ‘gap’ that leaves this ‘mainstream’ unquestioned but to re-theorise planning from a deep understanding of ‘place’ as well as a commitment to recognise ... Read more

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  • The Long Year

    A 2020 Reader

    Series series Public Books Series
    Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the ... Read more

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    Economy, Politics and Society

    Series series Politics Today
    Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now India is being feted as an economic power-house which might well become the second largest economy in the world before the middle of this century. ... Read more

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  • Empty Planet

    The Shock of Global Population Decline

    From the authors of the bestselling The Big Shift, a provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape.For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning population will soon overwhelm the earth’s resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different ... Read more

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  • Red Tape

    Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

    by Akhil Gupta ...
    Series series A John Hope Franklin Center book
    Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and ... Read more

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  • Understanding India's New Political Economy

    A Great Transformation?

    A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century. This book provides a detailed account of three that are of particular importance: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and the empowerment of historically subordinate classes through popular democratic mobilizations.Filling a ... Read more

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  • Citizenship and Its Discontents

    An Indian History

    Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern ... Read more

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  • Spin Doctors

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    As Canada was in the grips of the worst pandemic in a century, Canadian media struggled to tell the story. Newsrooms, already run on threadbare budgets, struggled to make broader connections that could allow their audience to better understand what was really happening, and why. Politicians and public health officials were mostly given the benefit of the doubt that what they said was true and that ... Read more

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  • Survival of the City

    The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation

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  • The Indian Parliament

    A Critical Appraisal

    by Sudha Pai ...
    • This volume examines the credibility and legitimacy of the Indian Parliament, scrutinising various aspects of its functioning. • The introduction provides a broad-ranging analysis of the relationship between the functioning of parliamentary institutions and the rapid changes witnessed in Indian society, particularly the onset of coalition politics and the initiation of economic reforms. • The ... Read more

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