Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia

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Cover Title Copyright Contents List of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Conceptualising the City in South Asia Part I: Contested Landscapes 1. The Nuisance of Slums: Environmental Law and the Production of Slum Illegality in India 2. Poverty as Geography: Motility, Stoppage and Circuits of Waste in Delhi 3. Shillong: The (Un) Making of a North-East Indian City? 4. The Divided City? Squatters’ Struggle for Urban Space in Kathmandu 5. Spectacular Events, City Spaces and Citizenship: The Commonwealth Games in Delhi Part II: Infrastuctures and Materialities 6. The Embeddedness of Cost Recovery: Water Reforms and Associationism at Bangalore’s Fringes 7. Ignoring Power: Knowing Leakage in Mumbai’s Water Supply 8. ‘No Horn Please’: Self-Governance and Sociality in a Kathmandu Housing Colony 9. Gated Communities as Packaged Fantasies: A Meeting of the Local and the Global and the Standardisation of Taste in Urban Sri Lanka Part III: Imagining the Urban 10. Sri Lanka: Terror, Anxiety and the Unstable Nation — A Physical Biography of Violence 11. City of Lights: Nostalgia, Violence and Karachi’s Competing Imaginaries 12. Sacrifice and Dystopia: Imagining Karachi through Edhi About the Editors Notes on Contributors Index