City of Shadows

Slums and Informal Work in Bangalore

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ID19940535
AuthorsSupriya Roychowdhury (0000-0002-6003-2202, Institute for Social and Economic Change, corresponding author)
Year2021
Publication date2021-09-30
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueCity of Shadows (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108989930
OpenAlexW4210739324
Open LibraryOL35577826M
ISBN9781108989930
LanguageEN
Citations received13

Alongside debates over rising inequalities, the stubbornness of urban poverty, globally, has emerged as a major academic and policy concern. Urban poverty policy positions are typically framed by paradigms of basic services and welfare. In the backdrop of Bangalore's evolution into India's silicon valley, the book presents research spanning old, inner city slums, new migrant settlements in urban peripheries, slum development projects, and garment export and construction workers, highlighting that intergenerationally, the urban poor remain tied to traditional low paying occupations, or, get incorporated into new urban growth channels (export industries, low end services) under highly unfavourable terms and conditions. Using the concepts of the old and the new poor, to explore channels of inclusion and exclusion, the book underscores that the poor's vulnerabilities are defined by different regimes of informality. Debates on the urban poor's political agency are used to problematize informality's complex relationship to contemporary theories of class

Agency (philosophy) · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Human settlement · Inclusion (mineral) · Inequality · Political science · Politics · Population · Poverty · Slum · Social science · Sociology · Urban poverty · Welfare · Gender Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Social and Economic Development in India · Urban and Rural Development Challenges

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