Migrants and Machine Politics - How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness [1 ed.] 9780691236100, 9780691236094, 9780691236087

Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness 9780691236100, 9780691236087, 9780691236094, 0691236100

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people h

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Teaching Hospitals and the Urban Poor 9780300133011

Academic health centers (AHCs) have played a key role in propelling the United States to world leadership in technologic

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How media and conflicts make migrants 9781526138125

Based on interviews and workshops with refugees in both countries, the book develops the concept of “migrantification” –

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The Politics of Crime in Turkey: Neoliberalism, Police and the Urban Poor 9781784535438, 9781350989115, 9781786730541

This book focuses on urban crime and policing in Turkey since the steady economic decline of the 1990s. Concentrating on

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Access to Power: Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Nations 9781400885978

Joan Nelson elucidates the implications of this rapid growth and concomitant poverty for politics. Unlike many scholars

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The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi 9781503632141

An ethnographic account of how marginalized poor people in Delhi, India assert their numerical strength to lay claim to

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An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America 9780801461552

Although many observers have assumed that pluralism prevailed in American political life from the start, inherited ideal

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Urban Space And Representation 0745313493, 9780745313498, 9780585433660, 0745313442

Theories of urban space have become the focus of a great deal of work by scholars in cultural geography, urban studies a

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Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin 9780674246515

Since the 1960s the South Bronx has been reduced to an archetype of the “inner city,” the exemplar of urban decay and of

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Urban Space And Representation 0745313493, 9780745313498, 9780585433660, 0745313442

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