In the center of Mumbai, next to the city's newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia's largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In recent years, cities from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro have demolished similar slums, at times violently evicting their residents, to make way for development. But Dharavi and its residents have endured for a century, holding on to what is now some of Mumbai's most valuable land.
In The Durable Slum, Liza Weinstein draws on a decade of work, including more than a year of firsthand research in Dharavi, to explain how, despite innumerable threats, the slum has persisted for so long, achieving a precarious stability. She describes how economic globalization and rapid urban development are pressuring Indian authorities to eradicate and redevelop Dharavi--and how political conflict, bureaucratic fragmentation, and community resistance have kept the bulldozers at bay. Today the latest ambitious plan for Dharavi's transformation has been stalled, yet the threat of eviction remains, and most residents and observers are simply waiting for the project to be revived or replaced by an even grander scheme.
Dharavi's remarkable story presents important lessons for a world in which most population growth happens in urban slums even as brutal removals increase. From Nairobi's Kibera to Manila's Tondo, megaslums may be more durable than they appear, their residents retaining a fragile but hard-won right to stay put.
Описание: The inequalities that structure relationships in Delhi`s urban slums have left the health of women living there chronically vulnerable. The author argues that women rely on moral strategies to confront the poverty and unstable relationships that threaten their well-being. She breaks new ground by delineating the ways in which women set boundaries.
Описание: The inequalities that structure relationships in Delhi`s urban slums have left the health of women living there chronically vulnerable. The author argues that women rely on moral strategies to confront the poverty and unstable relationships that threaten their well-being. She breaks new ground by delineating the ways in which women set boundaries.
Автор: Corburn Jason, Riley Lee Название: Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street ISBN: 0520281063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520281066 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 12672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Urban slum dwellers - especially in emerging-economy countries - are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. This book exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy and reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents.
Автор: Tzanelli, Rodanthi Название: Mobility, modernity and the slum ISBN: 1138909351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138909359 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 20671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines Slumdog Millionaire as an articulation of multiple mobilities of globalization, tourism, cinematic representation, transnational artistic collaboration and activism.
Автор: Kiyu, George M. Название: Politics and slum upgrading in kenya ISBN: 3631649525 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631649527 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 8957.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Why was the slum upgrading project in Kibera, Kenya, facing resistance? This study uses both qualitative and quantitative methods in data collection to reveal that politics revolving around the interests of local politicians, slum dwellers and business operators as well as external players such as NGOs hamper successful implementation of the slum upgrading project Kenya Slum Upgrading Program in Kibera. The key obstacles include poverty, corruption, tribalism, political interpretation of the project aims, bureaucracy, slum oriented businesses (kadogo economy) as well as NGO activity and youth unemployment.
Автор: Yelling Название: Slums and Slum Clearance in Victorian London ISBN: 1138874027 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138874022 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book was first published in 1986.
Автор: Shekhar Sulochana Название: Slum Development in India: A Study of Slums in Kalaburagi ISBN: 3030722910 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030722913 Издательство: Springer Цена: 22359.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The participatory slum mapping, cellular automata slum model, housing demand analysis, and the spatial decision support system demonstrated in the book help in monitoring and managing the slums and thus lead towards a slum-free India.
Автор: Das Veena Название: Slum Acts ISBN: 1509537856 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509537853 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 7128.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The most punitive era in American history reached its apex in the 1990s, but the trend has reversed in recent years. Smart on Crime: The Struggle to Build a Better American Penal System examines the factors causing this turnaround. It relates and echoes the increasing need and desire on the part of the American government to construct a penal system that is more rational and humane.
Описание: The single-room occupancy (SRO) tenements and welfare hotels located throughout New York City, but concentrated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, provided housing for many of society`s troubled, marginal members in the late 1970s, when this book was originally published
Автор: Dolling Robert Название: Ten Years in a Portsmouth Slum ISBN: 0957241348 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780957241343 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3311.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This new edition of this excellent book has been carefully edited and the type reset to modern standards. It is not a facsimile reprint, many of which also reproduce marks and flaws in the text from the pages they are copied from, but has been completely freshly set and presented. The book contains the photographs that were included in the first edition, and has a foreword by Portsmouth historian Matt Wingett, putting Father Dolling's work in the context not only of its time, but also reflecting the modern state of the city. It is thus a unique work, faithful to the original, but presented to make it easy to use for the modern reader and scholar.
Father Robert Dolling was an extraordinary figure who had a profound influence on the society, morals, education and health of the people of Landport, Portsmouth between 1885 and 1895. Sent to the town to start a mission and revive the influence of the Church, he entered a wild, untamed corner of the kingdom where drinking, violence, prostitution and vice of all sorts proliferated in its dark, tight and stinking streets. Over a period of ten years, Dolling fought to help families who wanted a better life, building friendships, spreading hope - and raising Saint Agatha's - a large basilica-style church at the very heart of the quarter. Filled with wonderful Portsmouth characters and vivid descriptions of Landport life told in Dolling's unique voice, Ten Years In A Portsmouth Slum gives a rare insight into the lives of some of the poorest of the poor in this sometimes violent, always vibrant naval town. With a brand new foreword by Portsmouth historian and writer, Matt Wingett.
Автор: Brown Lisa Beljuli Название: Body Parts on Planet Slum: Women and Telenovelas in Brazil ISBN: 0857287974 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857287977 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 25117.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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There is growing interest in urbanization as currently a third of the world's urban population live in slums, and by 2030 there may be two billion slum dwellers across the globe (Davies 2004, 17). During economic crises, slum dwellers are involved in increasing feats of self-exploitation. The literature on slums and informal settlements tends to focus on economic survival strategies, particularly those of men. But how do women, as the most marginalized and excluded slum-dwellers, survive in the face of poverty and gender oppression? What are the emotional rather than material costs of poverty? This book conveys the rich fabric of life in the slum.
'Body Parts on Planet Slum' discusses the importance of Christianity and telenovelas, and explores what it is about women's lives in particular that makes these stories so central. Yet it is also increasingly clear that for the poorest women, church attendance has become a rare luxury - whereas telenovelas are piped into their homes on a daily basis. The unemployed women watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but invest in a masochistic glorification of suffering. It is this glorification of suffering that links the women's lives to the telenovelas in crucial ways. It reveals disturbing valuations of women's bodies that traverse reality and fiction, and connect to a central feminist question, 'What is a woman?'
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