Download or read book Neighbourhood and Social Networks in Urban India written by Andréa Menefee Singh and published by New Delhi : Marwah Publications. This book was released on 1976 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of south Indian migrants in Delhi, with special reference to their voluntary associations, 1966-70.
Download or read book Social Structure in Urban India written by P. Gihar and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Urbanisation and Urban Growth in India: A Socio-Historical Analysis, Research Methodology, Research Profile and Procedure of the Study, Spatial Structure in Urban India, Social Structure in Urban India, Urbanisation and Spatio-Social Structure: A Synchronic Relationship, Conclusion.
Download or read book Neighbourhoods in Urban India written by Sadan Jha and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...a brilliant exploration of urbanism between the concept city and the lived city.... The volume focuses on urban life lived between home and the world, institutions and experiences, representations and affects.... Its fascinating range of empirically rich and analytically sophisticated excavations of neighbourhoods make the volume a must-have in the bookshelf on South Asian urban studies.' -Gyan Prakash, Princeton University 'A must-read for those who wish to study the micro aspects of contemporary urbanity.' -Sujata Patel, Savitribai Phule Pune University 'This book is a powerful addition to the study of Indian urbanism.' -Ravi Sundaram, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) In the last couple of decades, the global South, in general, and India, in particular, have witnessed a massive growth of cities. In India, more than one-third of its population lives in cities. However, urban development, growth and expansion are not merely about infrastructures and enlargement of cityscapes. This edited volume focuses on neighbourhoods, their particularities and their role in shaping our understanding of the urban in India. It locates Indian experiences in the larger context of the global South and seeks to decentre the dominant Euro-American discourse of urban social life. Neighbourhoods in Urban India: In Between Home and the City offers an understanding of neighbourhoods as changing socio-spatial units in their specific regional settings by underlining the way value regimes (religiosity and subjectivities) give neighbourhoods their social meanings and stereotypes. It unpacks discourses and knowledge practices, such as planning, architecture and urban discourses of governance. It further discloses the linkages and disjunctures between the social practices of neighbourhoods and the language, logic and experiences of dwelling, housing, urban planning and governance, and focuses on the particularities and heterogeneities of neighbourhoods and neighbourliness.
Download or read book The Politics of Community making in New Urban India written by Ritanjan Das and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between the production of new urban spaces and illiberal community-making in contemporary India. It is based on an ethnographic study in Noida, a city at the eastern fringe of the state of Uttar Pradesh, bordering national capital Delhi. The book demonstrates a flexible planning approach being central to the entrepreneurial turn in India’s post-liberalisation urbanisation, whereby a small-scale industrial township is transformed into a real-estate driven modern city. Its real point of departure, however, is in the argument that this turn can enable a form of illiberal community-making in new cities that are quite different from older metropolises. Exclusivist forms of solidarity and symbolic boundary construction - stemming from the differences across communities as well as their internal heterogeneities - form the crux of this process, which is examined in three distinct but often interspersed socio-spatial forms: planned middle-class residential quarters, ‘urban villages’ and migrant squatter colonies. The book combines radical geographical conceptualisations of social production of space and neoliberal urbanism with sociological and anthropological approaches to urban community-making. It will be of interest to researchers in development studies, sociology, urban studies, as well as readers interested in society and politics of contemporary India/South Asia.
Download or read book Urban Sociology written by Rajendra Kumar Sharma and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1997 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Covers Syllabi Of Various Universities In Urban Sociology. With Analytical Method Of Presentation And Holistic Outlook, Coupled With A Language Free From Technical Jargon, Along With Statistical Data From Indian Urban Scene, The Book Seeks To Serve The Needs Of Students As An Ideal Textbook And A Reference Book For Teachers, Planners, Politicians, Researchers And Social Workers.
Download or read book Reader In Urban Sociology written by Others and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1991 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unbounded Community written by Kenneth A. Scherzer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stick ball, stoop sitting, pickle barrel colloquys: The neighborhood occupies a warm place in our cultural memory—a place that Kenneth A. Scherzer contends may have more to do with ideology and nostalgia than with historical accuracy. In this remarkably detailed analysis of neighborhood life in New York City between 1830 and 1875, Scherzer gives the neighborhood its due as a complex, richly textured social phenomenon and helps to clarify its role in the evolution of cities. After a critical examination of recent historical renderings of neighborhood life, Scherzer focuses on the ecological, symbolic, and social aspects of nineteenth-century community life in New York City. Employing a wide array of sources, from census reports and church records to police blotters and brothel guides, he documents the complex composition of neighborhoods that defy simple categorization by class or ethnicity. From his account, the New York City neighborhood emerges as a community in flux, born out of the chaos of May Day, the traditional moving day. The fluid geography and heterogeneity of these neighborhoods kept most city residents from developing strong local attachments. Scherzer shows how such weak spatial consciousness, along with the fast pace of residential change, diminished the community function of the neighborhood. New Yorkers, he suggests, relied instead upon the "unbounded community," a collection of friends and social relations that extended throughout the city. With pointed argument and weighty evidence, The Unbounded Community replaces the neighborhood of nostalgia with a broader, multifaceted conception of community life. Depicting the neighborhood in its full scope and diversity, the book will enhance future forays into urban history.
Download or read book Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia written by Sadan Jha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines urban South Asia through the ideas of neighbourhood and neighbourliness. With a focus on the affective socio-spatial and sensorial experiences of non-metropolitan, small and intermediate cities, the chapters in the volume look at neighbourhoods as a key to exploring the textures of urban life. Bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, urban studies, planning, and social history, the book highlights urban heterogeneity and contemporary transformations in South Asia. It discusses the linkages between urban lived spaces and social life; memory, migration, and exile; and the city and its society through practices of everyday life in neighbourhoods. With studies from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and India, the volume addresses a wide range of issues pertaining to urban experiences in their regional specificities and in a broader context of the Global South. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of urban sociology, anthropology, urban studies, planning and development, social history, political studies, cultural studies, geography, and South Asian studies. It will also interest practitioners and policymakers, architects, planners, civil society organisations, and thinktanks.
Download or read book No One Will Let Her Live written by Claire Snell-Rood and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inequalities that structure relationships in Delhi’s urban slums have left the health of women living there chronically vulnerable. Yet for women living in slums, there is no other option than to depend on someone. Based on fourteen months of intensive fieldwork with ten families in a Delhi slum, No One Will Let Her Live argues that women rely on moral strategies to confront the poverty and unstable relationships that threaten their well-being. Claire Snell-Rood breaks new ground by delineating the complex ways in which women set boundaries, maintain their independence, and develop a nuanced sense of selfhood that draws on endurance, asceticism, mobility, and citizenship.
Download or read book A Spatial Analysis of Urban Community Development Policy in India written by Derek R. Hall and published by Research Studies Press Limited. This book was released on 1980 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cities as Spatial and Social Networks written by Xinyue Ye and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports on the latest, cutting-edge scholarship on integrating social network and spatial analyses in the built environment. It sheds light on conceptualization and Implementation of such integration, integration for intra-city level analysis, as well as integration for inter-city level analysis. It explores the use of new data sources concerning human and urban dynamics and provides a discussion of how social network and spatial analyses could be synthesized for a more nuanced understanding of the built environment. As such this book will be a valuable resource for scholars focusing on city-related networks in a number of ‘urban’ disciplines, including but not limited to urban geography, urban informatics, urban planning, urban sociology, and urban studies.
Download or read book INDIA S INTERNAL SECURITY written by Dr. Virendra Singh Baghel and published by The Readers Paradise . This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges to our internal security, in addition to those mentioned above, include VIP security, border management, the problem of refugees, drug trafficking, disaster management, food security, economic security, energy security etc. These challenges have the potential to severely threaten our security fabric. Overcoming these innumerable challenges to internal security in India requires clear, tough and swift policy responses. Key Points: 1. Internal security is emerging as key for economic and political stability of a nation to ensure uninterrupted development and growth. 2. It is vital to ensure that democratic process and institutions of governance remain functional and resilient. 3. Conflict resolution in J&K and North East require a timeline for resolution because both conflicts have the potential to spill over to other regions. 4. LWE is one of the most potent threats that India is facing in the 21st Century. Urban Naxalism is a reality and cannot be brushed aside. 5. Indian Muslim youth is a target for Jihadi ideologues to give impetus to instability in the heartland India. 6. Cyber frontiers are required to be secured to prevent cyber-terrorism. 7. Youth bulge if not managed can become a cause of instability. Thus economic empowerment and engagement of youth is imperative.
Download or read book Self Organization and Mobility Deprivation of Poor Workers in Hong Kong and Singapore written by Joseph Cho-Yam Lau and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the influence of socio-economic and land-use policies on the commuting problems and quality of life of the poor in Singapore and Hong Kong. It considers the influence of self-organisation: how the mobility of an individual is constituted by structures such as transport systems or socio-economic structural factors, as well as influenced by individual decisions. Where most transport studies focus on the influence of factors such as income inequality, the gender gap, and the built environment, this book fills a gap in paying particular attention to the influence of individual decisions on commuting. Given the prevalence of the former in research, government decision-makers are often constrained by these approaches and fail to understand the commuting problems of the poor. This book argues that the self-organisation approach provides some ideas that are outside the common conceptual framework in conventional transport planning and looks to improve mobility of lower-income commuters. Relevant to social science researchers working in areas such as urban planning and transport, mobility deprivation, and poverty, this book breaks new ground in quality of life studies in the Singapore and Hong Kong contexts.
Download or read book The Big Connect written by Shaili Chopra and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are digital means of communication better than traditional bhaashans and processions? Will a social media revolution coerce armchair opinion makers to head to poll booths? Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are changing the way the denizens of the world, and more specifically youth of this country, communicate and connect. In The Big Connect, Shaili Chopra traces the advent of social media in India and how politics and lobbying has now shifted to the virtual floor. She argues that though a post, a pin, or a tweet may not translate into a vote, it can definitely influence it. With comparisons to the Obama campaign of 2008 and 2012 and analysis of the social media campaigns of political bigwigs like Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi, and Arvind Kejriwal—the book discusses the role of a digital community in Indian politics.
Download or read book Urban Geography written by Michael Pacione and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive and readable book on urban geography in the array of contemporary literature on the subject.
Download or read book Margins of Citizenship written by Anasua Chatterjee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the ‘Religion and Citizenship’ series, this book is an ethnographic study of marginality of Muslims in urban India. It explores the realities and consequences of socio-spatial segregation faced by Muslim communities and the various ways in which they negotiate it in the course of their everyday lives. By narrating lived experiences of ordinary Muslims, the author attempts to construct their identities as citizens and subjects. What emerges is a highly variegated picture of a group (otherwise viewed as monolithic) that resides in very close quarters, more as a result of compulsion than choice, despite wide differences across language, ethnicity, sect and social class. The book also looks into the potential outcomes that socio-spatial segregation spelt on communal lines hold for the future of the urban landscape in South Asia. Rich in ethnographic data and accessible in its approach, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of sociology, social anthropology, human geography, political sociology, urban studies, and political science.
Download or read book Smart Cities written by Rajendra Joshi and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Saath ensured communities understood not just their rights when it came to basic services but also their responsibilities. With three decades of experience in partnerships for equitable and rights-based urban development, Saath is well positioned not just to be a player, important as that is, but to also be a resource agency, a teacher and a guru, sharing its successes and failures to other institutions who are treading a similar path.” Mr Shankar Venkateswaran, Former Chief, TATA Sustainibilty Group and former Country Head, American India Foundation “This book not only highlights the good work done by Saath, but also provides food for thought in terms of what needs to be done to make our cities a much better place to live than what they are today. This book will certainly help inspire people to join NGOs in their own ways and help create an atmosphere for social change that will lead to a more inclusive growth.” Mr Dilip Chenoy, Secretary General, Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries “Urban India needs a large number of initiatives like those taken by SAATH to solve its large and diversified problems.” Prof Chetan Vaidya, former Director of the National Institute of Urban Affairs and School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, Trustee of Saath
