"Mongrel City": Cosmopolitan Neighbourliness in a Delhi Squatter Settlement

Antipode

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 745-763

  Datta, Ayona ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmopolitanism; Delhi; Difference; Public sphere; Squatter

Indexed keywords

INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; NEIGHBORHOOD; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL INCLUSION; URBAN AREA; URBAN SOCIETY; VIOLENCE;

DELHI; INDIA;

EID: 84860667439     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00928.x     Document Type: Article

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