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The durable slum- Dharavi and the right to stay in globalizing Mumbai - Liza Weinstein

The durable slum- Dharavi and the right to stay in globalizing Mumbai - Liza Weinstein

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"The Durable Slum is a sound analysis of urbanism and urban processes in Indian cities.

Mumbai, especially, often the topic of popular writing, is finally the subject of an academic study that provides insights into the workings of the city. Liza Weinstein presents sociological research that transforms the megaslum from a horizon of popular imagination into a field of inquiry."

-Ananya Roy, University of California, Berkeley

The Dharavi district of Mumbai is one of Asia's largest slums, where nearly one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. In recent years, cities from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro have demolished similar slums, at times violently evicting their residents, to make way for development. But Dharavi and its residents have endured for a century, holding on to what is now some of Mumbai's most valuable land.

 

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In The Durable Slum, Liza Weinstein draws on a decade of work, including more than a year of firsthand research in Dharavi, to explain how, despite innumerable threats, the slum has persisted for so long, achieving a precarious stability. She describes how economic globalization and rapid urban development are pressuring Indian authorities to eradicate and redevelop Dharavi-and how political conflict, bureaucratic fragmentation, and community resistance have kept the bulldozers at bay. Dharavi's remarkable story presents important lessons for a world in which most population growth happens in urban slums even as brutal removals increase.

From Nairobi's Kibera to Manila's Tondo, megaslums may be more durable than they appear, their residents retaining a fragile but hard-won right to stay put.

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