Overview
- Examines the issues of land, livelihoods and health in Delhi in conjunction to understand its current developmental situation
- Focuses on equity in developmental processes in urban India
- Provides important directions for urban policy in developing nations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book analyses how developmental projects in a globalizing Delhi have brought about neglect, exclusion and alienation of certain sections of population, while benefiting others. It discusses the physical, economic and social displacement of people in the city in recent times, which has deprived them of their lands, livelihoods and access to health care. In Delhi and the National Capital Region, beyond the obvious and apparent image of wide roads, flyovers, the metro rail network, high-rises and glittering malls, globalization has brought about skewed and uneven development. A growing middle class and a significant group of an extremely rich section of population steer the ways in which development strategies are planned and implemented. Furthermore, with government control reducing as is inevitable and consistent with a neoliberal policy framework, private players have entered not only the consumer goods sector, but also basic goods and services such as agriculture, health and education. This book explores the effects of such processes, with a specific focus on equity, on the marginalized sections of population in a globalizing megacity. It addresses the themes of land, livelihoods and health as overarching, drawing upon their interlinkages. It traces the changes in the growth of the city in context of these themes and draws inferences from their interconnectedness to examine the current situation of development in Delhi.
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Keywords
- Gender violence
- Globalization
- Health care dynamics
- Labour geographies
- Land acquisition policy
- Marginalization
- Morbidity and health care
- New urban peripheries
- Public health
- Regional development
- Social infrastructure
- Social vulnerabilities
- Solid waste management
- Transportation
- Urban expansion
- Urban planning
Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Land and Changing Landscape
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Livelihoods and Vulnerability
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Health and Public Amenities
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sucharita Sen is a Professor in the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was a Nehru-Fulbright Fellow in 2009-10 and was associated with Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA during this period. She is an economic geographer and has published in areas of land resources, its acquisition and effect of dispossession on rural livelihoods, rural employment, the impact of watershed development programmes as a means for sustaining rural livelihoods. She is currently working on one major project other than the ‘Gender Atlas’ funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), which is the Inter University Consortium on Cryosphere and Climate Change (IUCCCC) project of 'Himalayan Cryosphere: Science and Society', also funded by the DST. She also regularly contributes to the geography curriculum in school (Central Board of Higher Secondary Education) through her association with the National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi.<
Milap Punia is professor of geography in the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Schoolof Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He did his Post Doctoral research work on urban studies from School of Forestry and Environment Studies, Yale University, USA. Served as scientist in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Division, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing-ISRO, Dehradun from 2002 to 2006, and adjunct faculty of Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (Affiliated to the UN). His areas of research include urban studies, spatial data analysis for urban planning and regional development; sustainability, land use change, disaster management, spatial aspects of governance and to bridge research gap between social sciences and remote sensing discipline. He is involved in various research projects of international (Subaltern Urbanization-ANR, remapping of global South-DAAD and of national repute (Snow Spectral Properties and Regional Climate -Hyperspectral Mapping, Geovisualisation of Landscape-DST-GOI) and Spatial aspects of Governance for Decentralised Local Bodies-Indian Council of Social Science and Research (ICSSR).
Sunita Reddy is an Associate Professor at the Center of Social Medicine and Community Health, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She is an anthropologist, specialized in medical anthropology. She has researched on various issues of women and child health; breast- feeding practices, tribal women’s health, childbirth and child rearing practices among the tribes. She has researched on disaster issues from social science perspectives and published a book ‘Clash of Waves: Post tsunami Relief and Rehabilitation in Andaman and Nicobar Islands’ (2013) Indos publishers, New Delhi. This book is a based longitudinal study using anthropological research techniques. Her current area of research is ‘Medical Tourism and Reproductive Tourism’, ‘Surrogacy’ issues. She has published articles in peer reviewed journals,contributed papers for edited volumes and disseminated her research work in various universities abroad. She is a founder member of ‘Anthropos India Foundation’ a trust which promotes visual and action anthropology and has a dynamic website www.anthroposindiafoundation.com . She is also an honorary president of an organization called ‘SATAT’ which works for empowering women and children.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marginalization in Globalizing Delhi: Issues of Land, Livelihoods and Health
Editors: Sanghmitra S. Acharya, Sucharita Sen, Milap Punia, Sunita Reddy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3583-5
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3581-1Published: 01 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3857-7Published: 04 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-3583-5Published: 21 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIX, 465
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 73 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Public Health, Regional and Cultural Studies