Agents of Change and Obstruction
Municipal Councilors and Urban D/Development in the Mumbai Metropolitan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12979017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Toos Van Dijk (0000-0003-4118-5403, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 31-47 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1942-7786 • E-ISSN: 2633-674X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/194277861100400203 |
| OpenAlex | W2484890112 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 23 |
Municipal Councilors are important agents of change and obstruction in processes of urban D/ development. This is presented by first discussing both the capitalist creative destruction side and targeted social program side of development in Urban India before moving on to Municipal Councilors’ working environment and daily governance activities. Using an analytical framework which combines Lipsky's concept of street-level-bureaucrats, Chatterjee's political society and Burt's structural holes, I argue that Municipal Councilors are friend and foe both to the urban poor and to the middle-classes and capitalists trying to world-class the region. Those interested in empowering the poor should endeavor to make common cause with these actors
Archaeology · Chatterjee · Civil engineering · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Management · Metropolitan area · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urban planning · Engineering · Law · Public Administration · Social and Economic Development in India · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance
Homo Sacer
Local Processes of National Corruption
Guardians of the Bourgeois City
Private and public spheres in India
Negotiated spaces” for representation in Mumbai
Governance, economic settings and poverty in Bangalore
The Politics of Forgetting
Urban land transformation for pro-poor economies
The condition of postmodernity
Seeing the State
Neo-liberalism as creative destruction
D/developments after the Meltdown
Staying Secure, Staying Poor
Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities
Mumbai's Development Mafias
Progressive Patronage? Municipalities, NGOs, CBOs and the Limits to Slum Dwellers' Empowerment
Perverse Accountability
Occupancy Urbanism
Neoliberalism as Doxa
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2020 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |