Full Description
Mumbai / Bombay is a quintessential urban expression which represents the questions and puzzles related to Indian urbanity. This book traces the various ways through which majoritarianism and neoliberal capitalist accumulation has reorganised Bombay or Mumbai in India.
The book assesses Mumbai's present trajectories and processes as being embedded in its recent past. It looks at these changes by exploring work and labour; health and education; spatial planning and infrastructural development; politics and identity; and shows how financialisation, land speculation, deregulation, and informality have impacted the city's culture and everyday living. The contributors to this volume analyse the consequences of these changes for women and men across ages, as they live their material and cultural lives; evaluate the role of the changing nature of work, urban infrastructure, and planning; determine its outcome for public health and education; and take a measure of its manifestation in the field of arts and culture. The volume explores the processes that reorient these changes, the socio-spatial and political implications of these on the inhabitants of the city, and the resistance and response to marginalisation.
This interdisciplinary volume will interest students and researchers of economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, public policy, development studies, and urban studies. It will also be useful to urban practitioners, planners, bureaucrats, activists, and general readers.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Pathways towards Majoritarian Neoliberalism in Mumbai
Sujata Patel, D. Parthasarathy, and George Jose
PART I
Work and Labour: Deregulation and Restructuring
1 Informality, Missing Markets, and Political Organisation: Case Study of the Shiv Sena
Neeraj Hatekar
2 Gendered Peripheralisation of Work, Workers, and Workplace
Ritu Dewan
3 Living with Precariousness: Survival in Small Manufacturing Enterprises
Raghav Mehrotra and Maansi Parpiani
4 Neoliberalism and Majoritarian Politics: Hindutva and Restructuring the Meat Business
Shireen Mirza
PART II
Infrastructure and Politics: Negotiation and Resistance
5 Infrastructure Projects and Sustainable Development
Sripad Motiram
6 Legislating the Urban in Vasai-Virar: Planning (in) the Periphery
George Jose
7 Socio-Spatial Embedding of Platform Mobilities: A Study on Taxi Driving
Tobias Kuttler
8 The Difficult Quest for Solidarity and Citizenship: Civility, Politics, and Neoliberalism
D. Parthasarathy
PART III
Well-being and Reproduction of Life: Corporatisation and Privatisation
9 Health and Healthcare in the City: A Social History Perspective
Padma Prakash and Sangeeta Rege
10 Right Place, Right Time: Ambulances, Injury, and Trauma in Motion
Harris Solomon
11 The Good Muslim Student: Neoliberal Education and Islamic-English Schools 210
Sameera Khan
12 Neoliberalism and Sustainability in the Art Ecosystem
Olga Kanzaki Sooudi
Glossary
Index
