Urban Poverty, Local Governance and Everyday Politics in Mumbai

ISBN-13: 9780367177416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str.

Joop de Wit

Opis

This book explores the informal (political) patronage relations between theurban 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 council

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.