Discourses of Citizenship and Criminality in Clean, Green Delhi

A Companion to the Anthropology of India

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 407-425

  Truelove, Yaffa ^a   Mawdsley, Emma ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Newnham College   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

April 8, 2005, Draft 2021 Master Plan for Delhi transformation of Delhi into "World Class City"; Batra's insights, reminding us of a collusion, "the state" and "the middle classes"; Contemporary times, "unplanned" city informal spaces and practices; Delhi's middle class residents in illegal and informal practices, around water procurement; Dialectic between "planned" and "unplanned" city of Delhi coevolution; Discourses of citizenship and criminality in clean, green Delhi; Discourses of sustainability visible criminals, (in)visible citizens in Delhi; History of Delhi, colonial and postcolonial divisions and dualisms, reshaping cityscape; Targeted criminalization of the poor strong legal and material impacts; The Draft Plan, city's ambition to expel squatters through relocation and resettlement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881657799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390599.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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