Any city is a product of politics and economics, organizations and people. Yet, the life experiences of women uprooted from its poorest quarters seldom inform urban resettlement plans.? In this ethnographic field study, Ramya Ramanath, Associate Professor at DePaul University, e…
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The hinge of this book is 15 August 1947, the day India became independent. The new leaders of the nation formulated many goals for India's speedy development. Among these was the promise to provide all urban citizens with decent housing, and thus to clear all slums. This promis…
In Search of Home explores a new yet less explored space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing for the displaced poor, which increasingly dots the peripheries of Indian cities. This longitudinal ethnography examines these new liminal zones suspended between a slum and the le…
"This book examines the politics of the poor focusing on law, citizenship and gender in a new space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing. Challenging the assumption that illegalities emerge due to lack of legal rights to property, this study reveals how the rehabilitated po…
"This book examines the politics of the poor focusing on law, citizenship and gender in a new space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing. Challenging the assumption that illegalities emerge due to lack of legal rights to property, this study reveals how the rehabilitated po…
Social housing in transition countries
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This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about the past two decades of developments in selected countries' social housing sectors…
