Social city urban experience and belonging in Surat / Sadan Jha.

Author/creator Jha, Sadan
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
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Abstract "This book examines urban experience from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing upon narratives coming from three key axes - communities, neighbourhoods, and market-places - it lays bare the specificities of urban experience coming from a non-megacity landscape of South Asia. It discusses a host of issues including ambiguity of urban experience, its uncomfortable ties with frames of the capital, and the politics of urban belonging that operate at multiple levels shaping the contours of urban society. Musing on the subjectivities pertaining to the social and the spatial in a milieu of a fast-transforming urban landscape of Surat, Gujarat, the book is an exploration of how people perceive and associate with their surroundings, how do they aspire, how do they stigmatise others, the relation between city and its migrants, between city and its castes, and at a broader level between the capital and the city from a location in the global South. An important contribution to the study of cities, the volume sheds light on how urban experience can be approached as a socially and spatially embedded concept. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social history, urban sociology, political theory, Global South studies and South Asian studies"-- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Jha, Sadan. Social city London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 9781032158310
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