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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

1. Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia: An Introductory Outlook Part I: Spatial Subalternity 2. Becoming Urban: Subjectivities and Collective Lives in Gurgaon's Urban Villages 3. Neighbourly Nilphamari: Mediated Relationships in Bangladesh 4. Reclaiming Neighbourhoods through Informal Temporalities: Pettah, Sri Lanka 5. From Growing Up in Durbarthok to Living in Kathmandu and Back: Places and Multiple Belonging in Nepal Part II: Memory, Personal Experiences and Life History 6. The Life and Times of Vijaya baji in Panjrapol: A Biography of a Lived Neighbourhood 7. In the Neighbourhood of Memory: Sensuous Space of Banglagarh, Darbhanga 8. Reframing the Para? The 'Muslim' Neighbourhoods of Kolkata Part III: Politics of Othering and Stigma 9. The Biharis of Orangi Town, Karachi: Experiences of Belonging and Neighbourliness 10. Invisible Refugee Neighbourhoods of Lucknow: Redefining the Neighbourhood as Gu'ha and Gali Môholl 11. Neighborhood of Resilience and Hope: The Making and Re-making of Wanathamulla