A Place to Call Home: Women as Agents of Change in Mumbai

ISBN-13: 9781138667341 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 170 str.

Ramya Ramanath

Opis

A city, any city, can be understood as a product of politics and economics, and organizations and people yet accounts of the post-displacement experiences of marginalized communities are scarce, particularly for a gendered understanding of resettlement activities. In this book, Ramya Ramanath explores the pre- to post-resettlement experiences of women in one of the largest urban slum resettlement sites in Mumbai. Using a narrative approach and combining a wealth of data from women of different ages, caste, ethnicity, religion, education, marital, residential, and employment status found at the resettlement site, Ramanath shows how women are mediating change by communicating to each other their sense of belonging. More specifically, she analyzes in great detail each phase from pre- to post-resettlement to demonstrate the strategies and tactics that women use to initiate change and disseminate a vision that urban planners on the ground can comprehend, accept, and act upon to institute desired transformations. Ramanath calls for the full, continual, and differentiated engagement of affected women in the planning, design, monitoring, and evaluation of place-making processes in cities in general (without) and in their own resettlement colonies (within) in particular.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Vibrant Matter of The Past: A Woman’s Theory of Place  3. Deliberation Over Legitimate Benefactors in A Neoliberal Bazaar  4. Hazards of A New Fortune  5. Buildings and Business, Love and Forgiveness  6. The Depth of Place