Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia

This volume examines urban South Asia through the ideas of neighbourhood and neighbourliness. With a focus on the affective socio-spatial and sensorial experiences of non-metropolitan, small and intermediate cities, it explores urban heterogeneity and contemporary transformations in South Asia.

Auteur

Sadan Jha is Associate Professor at the Centre for Social Studies, Surat, India.

Dev Nath Pathak is a founding faculty member of Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi, India.

Contenu

Chapter 1. Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia: An Introductory Outlook

Sadan Jha and Dev Nath Pathak

Part I: Spatial Subalternity

Chapter 2. Becoming Urban: Subjectivities and Collective Lives in Gurgaon's Urban Villages

Mukta Naik

Chapter 3. Neighbourly Nilphamari: Mediated Relationships in Bangladesh

Ratan Kumar Roy and Dev Nath Pathak

Chapter 4. Reclaiming Neighbourhoods through Informal Temporalities: Pettah, Sri Lanka

Kelum Palipane and Anoma Pieris

Chapter 5. From Growing Up in Durbarthok to Living in Kathmandu and Back: Places and Multiple Belonging in Nepal

Binit Gurung

Part II: Memory, Personal Experiences and Life History

Chapter 6. The Life and Times of Vijaya baji in Panjrapol: A Biography of a Lived Neighbourhood

Gauri Bharat

Chapter 7. In the Neighbourhood of Memory: Sensuous Space of Banglagarh, Darbhanga

Sadan Jha

Chapter 8. Reframing the Para? The 'Muslim' Neighbourhoods of Kolkata

Anasua Chatterjee

Part III: Politics of Othering and Stigma

Chapter 9. The Biharis of Orangi Town, Karachi: Experiences of Belonging and Neighbourliness Maliha Khan

Chapter 10. Invisible Refugee Neighbourhoods of Lucknow: Redefining the Neighbourhood as Gu'ä ha and Gali Môholla

Anjali Gera Roy

Chapter 11. Neighborhood of Resilience and Hope: The Making and Re-making of Wanathamulla Nihal Perera, Nirmani Liyanage and Asanka Senadeera