Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia: Subjectivities and Spatiality

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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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations Contributors Chapter 1 Neighbourhoods and neighbourliness in urban South Asia: An introductory outlook Part I Spatial subalternity Chapter 2 Becoming urban: Subjectivities and collective lives in Gurgaon’s urban villages Chapter 3 Neighbourly Nilphamari: Mediated relationships in Bangladesh Chapter 4 Reclaiming neighbourhoods through informal temporalities: Pettah, Sri Lanka Chapter 5 From growing up in Durbarthok to living in Kathmandu and back: Places and multiple belonging in Nepal Part II Memory, personal experiences, and life history Chapter 6 The life and times of Vijaya baji in Panjrapol: A biography of a lived neighbourhood Chapter 7 In the neighbourhood of memory: Sensuous space of Banglagarh, Darbhanga Chapter 8 Reframing the para?: The “Muslim” neighbourhoods of Kolkata Part III Politics of othering and stigma Chapter 9 The Biharis of Orangi Town, Karachi: Experiences of belonging and neighbourliness Chapter 10 Invisible refugee neighbourhoods of Lucknow: Redefining the neighbourhood as gu’āṇḍha and gali môhollā Chapter 11 Neighbourhood of resilience and hope: The making and re-making of Wanathamulla Index