Overview
- Provides a broad critique of "entrepreneurial" urban governance with particular emphasis on Indian cities from an interdisciplinary perspective
- Offers a substantive analysis on shifts in urban governance and local responses in South Asian cities, particularly in India
- Examines how neoliberalization is articulated through political and economic projects, spatial imagery and emerging local contestations in Indian cities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Urban Governance and Institutions
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Political Economy of Urbanisation
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Urban Inclusion and Exclusion
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About this book
Through the analysis of Indian metropolises, this volume critiques the reality of “entrepreneurial governance” that has emerged as a major urban development practice in cities of the global south. In neoliberal India, the use of management rhetoric in urban development has rapidly led to the growth of urban/peri-urban structures and spaces that are supposedly “smart” and “entrepreneurial”, which are networked within global systems of production, finance, technology/ telecommunication, culture and politics.
Through diverse empirical evidence from India, particularly from the metropolises of New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai, this volume focuses on the fallout of the deployment of “entrepreneurial governance” practices at national, state and local levels. Foremost, it explores the impact of specific institutional and organizational reorientations and changing urban spatial landscapes at the local level; secondly, it discusses the socio-economic implications of rollback ofthe state and involvement of non-state organizations in governance as part of urban entrepreneurialism; further, it discusses the regulation of urban development projects by local governments and the impact of "entrepreneurial governance" for citizens, often resulting in social exclusion and inequality. Finally, it explores the inherent contradictions within political and institutional landscapes that can be described as “entrepreneurial”.
Written by scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, and focusing on different facets of entrepreneurial governance in Indian metropolises, this book is of interest to researchers of urban politics, public policy, urban sociology, anthropology, urban geography, planning and architecture.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Smitha Kanekanti Chandrashekar is Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Urban Affairs (CRUA), Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, India. Her research focuses mainly on urban governance, service delivery, urban poverty, urban informality, urban political economy and urban political ecology. She has a PhD in Political Science & Public Administration from the Institute for Social and Economic Change (through the University of Mysore). Her doctoral research examined urban governance and service delivery of water supply and sanitation in Bengaluru, assessing the impact of neoliberal urban sector reforms on service delivery and equity. Over the past several years, she has been actively engaged in varied urban research projects such as structure of Indian metropolises, rural-urban migration, urban deprivation, urban infrastructure, urban poor and urban land governance from interdisciplinary perspective. She has published several book chaptersand articles in peer reviewed journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India
Book Subtitle: The Politics of Spatial Restructuring and Local Contestation
Editors: Kanekanti Chandrashekar Smitha
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2236-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2235-7Published: 15 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9569-6Published: 05 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2236-4Published: 05 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 220
Number of Illustrations: 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Economics