This book studies the recent legacy of basti" evictions" in Delhi--mass clearings of some of
the city's poorest neighborhoods--as a way to understand how the urban poor are …

Economists studying environmental collective action and green governance have paid little
attention to gender. Research on gender and green governance in other disciplines has …

Recent scholarship has highlighted the central role of India's 'new middle class' in
gentrifying and 'cleaning up'its cities. According to this literature, this class experienced a …

This paper examines the narratives through which associations of private property owners in
Delhi depict slums as zones of incivility and “nuisance.” In tracing how this “nuisance talk” …

Informality, understood either as an economic sector or as a form of shelter and service
provision, dominates Southern cities, even as disciplinary divides dominate the study of …

The promotion of an enterprise culture and entrepreneurship in India in recent decades has
had far-reaching implications beyond the economy, and transformed social and cultural …

Urban political ecology (UPE) has mainly evolved within the discipline of geography to
examine the power relations that produce uneven urban spaces (infrastructures and …

Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are
enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While …

This article examines the new phenomenon of “citizens' groups” in contemporary Mumbai,
India, whose activities are directed at making the city's public spaces more orderly. Recent …

How do slum dwellers organize and demand development from the state? The politics of
urban slums has primarily been examined through the lens of clientelism. In contrast …