The politics of the evicted: Redevelopment, subjectivity, and difference in Mumbai's slum frontier

Antipode

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 844-865

  Doshi, Sapana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Difference; Mumbai; Redevelopment; Slum evictions; Subaltern subjectivity; Urban social movements

Indexed keywords

INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; LAND MARKET; REDEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN SOCIETY;

INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; MUMBAI;

EID: 84881552059     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01023.x     Document Type: Article

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