Participolis: Consent and Contention in Neoliberal Urban India

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Part I. Introduction: Politics and Citizenship in India’s New ‘Urban’
	1. Opening up or Ushering in? Citizen Participation as Mandate and Practice in Urban Governance
	2. Outside Capital, Inside the Urban? Notes and Queries on the Politics of the Present
	Commentary 1. Permanence of the Temporary: Elite Utopia and Spatial Exclusion
Part II. Participation, Privatisation and Politics: Case Studies from Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad
	3. Financialised and Insurgent: The Dialectics of Participation in Bangalore’s Neoliberal Water Reforms
	4. From Watertight to Watered Down: The Case of Public Consultations and People’s Participation in Mumbai’s Water Distribution Improvement Project (WDIP)
	5. Community Participation and Political Legitimacy: A Case Study from Hyderabad
	Commentary 2. Participation and Consultation in the Context of Municipal Infrastructure Financing
	Commentary 3. City Infrastructure Development and the ‘Spectator Sport’ of Citizen Participation
Part III. Class Claims: Civil Society and Split Citizenship in Urban India: Case Studies from Bangalore and Mumbai
	6. Urban Reforms and the Middle Classes: Fragmented Collective Action and the Incomplete Project of Stakeholder Participation
	7. Leveraging Mumbai: Global Finance, the State and Urban Politics
	Commentary 4. Visioning a World-class Slum-free Mumbai: Who Participates?
	Commentary 5. Middle-class Mobilisations: What Works?
Part IV. Democratisation, Decentralisation andBhagidari: Case Studies from Delhi
	8. Participation as a Support to Neo-populism? The Case of the Bhagidari Scheme
	9. RWAs and the Political Process in Delhi
	Commentary 6. Middle-class Mobilisations, Urban Reforms, and the Politics of Bhagidari: Observations from New Delhi
	Commentary 7. Direct Democracy versus Electoral Democracy: A View from Delhi
Part V. Anatomies of Consultative Processes: Case Studies from Chennai
	10. Public Performances: Enacting Citizenship through Public Consultation for Chennai’s Second Master Plan
	11. The Messy Practice of Participation: Lessons from the City Development Plan (CDP) Review in Chennai
	Commentary 8. Consultations in Revising Chennai’s City Development Plan: Challenges and Insights
	Commentary 9. No Public in Public Consultations
	Coda. Participolis: Protest and Participation in the City
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Index