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Governing the urban poor: Riverfront development, slum resettlement and the politics of inclusion in Ahmedabad [1]

The politics of inclusion in the Sabarmati Riverfront Development project, an urban mega-project in Ahmedabad, has been predicated on a “flexible governing” of the residents of the riverfront informal settlements. Such flexible governing has allowed state authorities to negotiate grass-roots opposition and mobilisation, modify the project to gentrify the riverfront further, and even officially represent the project as inclusive although questions of social justice have been profoundly disregarded over the past decade and continue to be insufficiently addressed.

Publication Date: 
14/01/2012
Renu Desai [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
47
2
49-56
Tags:
Slums [4], Poverty [5], Ahmedabad (T) [6], Slum Upgrading [7], Relocation [8], Urban Housing [9], Urban Development [10], Sabarmati [11], Rehabilitation [12], Urban Land Use [13]
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