This paper conducts a review of the main housing policies for informal settlements and the
poor in the so‐called Global South promoted by the main international agencies (such as …

Comparison is now taken as vital to the constitution of knowledge about cities and urbanism.
However, debate on comparative urbanism has been far more attentive to the merits of …

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 …

What is land and how is it made? In this path-breaking study of sites in western, eastern, and
southern India, Nikita Sud argues that land is not simply the solid surface of the earth. It is …

The problem of housing shortage and subsequent growth of informal housing has continued
to adversely affect Indian cities, especially since independence. In Delhi, despite numerous …

Emerging research on the increasing significance of consumption in the global South is
concerned with its links to the globalizing middle classes. Against the backdrop of optimism …

As urbanization assumes planetary scales under variegated market regimes, spaces and
opportunities for collective provisions of care are constrained. Long honed relational skills …

This paper takes an embodied approach to the lived experiences and everyday politics of
liminal neighborhoods and infrastructures in Delhi's unauthorized colonies, which lack …

The practices and instruments of urban governance are rapidly changing in Delhi, a
metropolitan area of 24 million inhabitants characterized by strong socio-economic …

The enactment of the national Right to Information (RTI) Act in 2005 has been produced,
consumed, and celebrated as an important event of democratic deepening in India both in …