South Asia in the Social Sciences #: In Search of Home

Citizenship, Law and the Politics of the Poor

South Asia in the Social Sciences #: In Search of Home
Kaveri Haritas
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31 May 2021 UK
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9781108834049
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In Search of Home explores new, yet less explored space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing that houses the displaced poor and increasingly dots the peripheries of Indian cities. It examines the politics of the poor focusing on law, citizenship and gender. Contesting the assumption that illegalities emerge due to lack of legal rights to property, this ethnography of the everyday narrates how the rehabilitated poor despite legal residence experience ' citizenship in limbo' , suspended between an illegal past and an imagined future of full citizenship. The book details the flexible governance of such neighbourhoods, studying how the state produces illegalities, and how state institutions and actors stand to gain. By looking at how systemic corruption draws urban poor groups into webs of exchanges with the state, de-radicalising and co-opting the poor, it exposes the gendered underbelly of urban poor struggles, uncovering the role women play in eliciting the paternalism of the state.

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Kaveri Haritas is Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy. Her research focuses on the politics of the poor, the role that gender plays in everyday politics and struggles and the manner in which this shapes citizenship and the role of the state. Her recent research interrogates the future of work in a world of technological unemployment, examining the potential of technology to transform both the structures and meanings of work in the contemporary world. She has been a north-south mobility fellow at the Institute for Research on Development, Paris.
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ISBN-13: 9781108834049
Published: 31 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pages: 270

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