Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi

1. Introduction: Contested Urbanism in Delhi’s Interstitial Spaces
Surajit Chakravarty, Rohit Negi

Part I. Dis/Locating Bodies

2. Seeing and Governing Street Hawkers Like a Fragmented Metropolitan State
Seth Schindler

3. Understanding Participation in a Heterogeneous Community: The Resettlement of Kathputli Colony
Shruti Dubey

Part II. Claims at the Urban Frontier

4. “Propertied Ambiguity”: Negotiating the State in a Delhi Resettlement Colony
Kavita Ramakrishnan

5. Urban Negotiations and Small-Scale Gentrification in a Delhi Resettlement Colony
Ursula Rao

6. Incipient Informality in Delhi’s “Formalized” Suburban Space
Rolee Aranya, Vilde Ulset

Part III. Informalization and Investment

7. Between Informalities: Mahipalpur Village as an Entrepreneurial Space
Surajit Chakravarty

8. Unpacking the “Unauthorized Colony”: Policy, Planning and Everyday Lives
Shahana Sheikh, Subhadra Banda

9. The Shape/ing of Industrial Landscapes: Life, Work and Occupations in and Around Industrial Areas in Delhi
Sumangala Damodaran

10. Megaproject, Rules and Relationships with the Law: The Metro Rail in East Delhi
Bérénice Bon

Part IV. Gendered Mobility

11. Housing, Spatial-Mobility and Paid Domestic Work in Millennial Delhi: Narratives of Women Domestic Workers
Sonal Sharma

12. Bus/Bas/बस: The 2012 Delhi Gang Rape Case, City Space and Public Transportation
Tara Atluri

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Social Policy