Providing adequate housing in an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge of current times. This book puts together a compelling story based on fine-grained analysis of housing processes, as lived by slum-dwellers and their voice-bearers. It situates the lived experience of claiming adequate housing within informal transactions and negotiations of patronage networks vis-a-vis the formal institutional opportunities and closures of Indian democracy. In doing so, this research extends an innovative array of conceptual and methodological tools to grasp the context in which housing claims succeed and fail. This book contributes by responding to critical areas of social movement scholarship and by displaying community engagements and tactical strategies to bring about transformative change to claim adequate housing and resist co-opting forces for socially sustainable housing futures.

A study that maps India's political opportunities and closures for claim making in general and housing grievances in particular.

About the Author
Swetha Rao Dhananka is associate professor at the University of Applied sciences and arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO), School of Social Work Fribourg. Her research was awarded the faculty (social and political sciences) prize at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her interests articulate around communities and space, governance practices, postcolonial theory and green social work.


Book Information
ISBN 9781108484268
Author Swetha Rao Dhananka
Format Hardback
Page Count 248
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 460g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 160mm * 20mm