TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weinstein,Liza
TI  - The durable slum: Dharavi and the right to stay put in globalizing Mumbai 
T2  - Globalization and community
SN  - 9780816683093 (hardback)
AV  - HN690.D454 W45 2014
U1  - 307.364/WEI 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Orient Blackswan 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
KW  - Slums
KW  - India
KW  - Mumbai
KW  - Dharavi (Mumbai, India)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Mansion in the Slum -- 1. Becoming Asia's Largest Slum -- 2. State Interventions and Fragmented Sovereignties -- 3. From Labor to Land: An Emerging Political Economy -- 4. Political Entrepreneurship and Enduring Fragmentations -- 5. The Right to Stay Put -- Conclusion: Precarious Stability -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - " In the center of Mumbai, next to the city's newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia's largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In recent years, cities from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro have demolished similar slums, at times violently evicting their residents, to make way for development. But Dharavi and its residents have endured for a century, holding on to what is now some of Mumbai's most valuable land. In The Durable Slum, Liza Weinstein draws on a decade of work, including more than a year of firsthand research in Dharavi, to explain how, despite innumerable threats, the slum has persisted for so long, achieving a precarious stability. She describes how economic globalization and rapid urban development are pressuring Indian authorities to eradicate and redevelop Dharavi--and how political conflict, bureaucratic fragmentation, and community resistance have kept the bulldozers at bay. Today the latest ambitious plan for Dharavi's transformation has been stalled, yet the threat of eviction remains, and most residents and observers are simply waiting for the project to be revived or replaced by an even grander scheme. Dharavi's remarkable story presents important lessons for a world in which most population growth happens in urban slums even as brutal removals increase. From Nairobi's Kibera to Manila's Tondo, megaslums may be more durable than they appear, their residents retaining a fragile but hard-won right to stay put.  "--
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