The Illegal City: Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement (Gender, Space and Society) - Image 1

£140.32

Routledge The Illegal City: Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement (Gender, Space and Society)

Name: The Illegal City: Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement (Gender, Space and Society)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 140.35 GBP
Availability: InStock

Biography

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£140 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 90 days • 90 data points

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 90 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £140 (90 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £140 - £140

Price levels: 1 different prices over 90 days

Description

The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book argues that in this context, it has become vital to distinguish between illegality and informality since it is those 'illegal' slums which are at the receiving end of a 'force of law', where law is violently encountered within everyday spaces. This book uses a gendered intersectional lens to explore how a 'violence of law' shapes how 'public' subjectivities of gender, class, religion and caste are encountered and negotiated within the 'private' spaces of home, family and neighbourhood. This book suggests that resettlement is not a condition that squatters desire; rather something that is seen as the only way out of the 'illegal' city. The wait for resettlement is a temporal space of anxiety and uncertainty, where particular kinds of politics around law, space and gender takes shape, which transform squatters' relations with the state, urban development, civil society, and with each other. Through their everyday struggles around water, sanitation, social and political organisation and the transformation of their homes and families, this book shows that the desire for the 'legal city' is also the irony and utopia of home, which will remain an incomplete gendered project - both for the state and for squatters.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1409445542
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 20 September 2012
Listed Since: 06 April 2012

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge The Illegal City: Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement (Gender, Space and Society)

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Rebel Streets and the Informal Economy: Street Trade and the Law (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City)

Contentious Cities: Design and the Gendered Production of Space (Gender, Bodies and Transformation)

Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City (Space, Materiality and the Normative)

Migrants, Mobility and Citizenship in India: A Citizenship Perspective

Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows (Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series)

Urban Gardening as Politics (Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series)

Social Justice and the City

Gender and Religion in the City: Women, Urban Planning and Spirituality (Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments)

Geographies of Forced Eviction: Dispossession, Violence, Resistance

Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City (Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers)

Slum Clearance: The Social and Administrative Context in England and Wales (Routledge Library Editions: Urban Studies)

The Politics of Urban Land in South Asia: Current Challenges and New Directions (Cities and the Urban Imperative)

Delhi's Changing Built Environment (Routledge Studies in International Real Estate)

Gender and Gentrification (Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City)

The Chinese City

The Human Rights City: New York, San Francisco, Barcelona (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration: An Examination of Domestic Work and Domestic Workers’ Experiences in Singapore and Hong Kong ... in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship)

The Postcolonial Age of Migration

'Illegal' Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders (Global Ethics)

The Atmospheric City (Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces)

Gender and Digital Culture: Between Irreconcilability and the Datalogical

Settlements and Displacement in Turkey: Struggle and Rejuvenation (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Society)

Urban Geopolitics: Rethinking Planning in Contested Cities (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City)

Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities: Spaces of Depoliticisation (Politics in Asia)