Civic sense and cleanliness: Pedagogy and aesthetics in middle-class Mumbai activism

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 89-101

  Taguchi, Yoko ^a  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

aesthetics; civil society; filth; Mumbai; public space

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; CLASS; ESTHETICS; LIBERALIZATION; PUBLIC SPACE; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN SOCIETY;

INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; MUMBAI;

EID: 84879525679     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: 1469364X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2013.773288     Document Type: Article

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