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Majoritarian neoliberalism, informality, resistance, and wellbeing
Introduction:Pathways towards Majoritarian Neoliberalism in MumbaiSujata Patel, D. Parthasarathy and George JosePart I. Work and Labour: Deregulation and Restructuring 1. Informality, Missing Markets and Political Organisation: Case Study of the Shiv Sena Neeraj Hatekar2. Gendered Peripheralisation of Work, Workers and WorkplaceRitu Dewan3. Living with Precariousness: Survival in Small Manufacturing EnterprisesRaghav Mehrotra and Maansi Parpiani4. Neoliberalism and Majoritarian Politics: Hindutva and Restructuring the Meat BusinessShireen MirzaPart II. Infrastructure and Politics: Negotiation and Resistance5. Infrastructure Projects and Sustainable DevelopmentSripad Motiram6. Legislating the Urban in Vasai-Virar: Planning (in) the PeripheryGeorge Jose7. Socio-Spatial Embedding of Platform Mobilities: A Study on Taxi DrivingTobias Kuttler8. The Difficult Quest for Solidarity and Citizenship: Civility, Politics, and NeoliberalismD. ParthasarathyPart III. Wellbeing and Reproduction of Life: Corporatisation and Privatisation 9.Health and Health Care in the City: A Social History PerspectivePadma Prakash and Sangeeta Rege10. Right Place, Right Time: Ambulances, Injury, and Trauma in MotionHarris Solomon11. The Good Muslim Student: Neoliberal Education and Islamic-English SchoolsSameera Khan12. Neoliberalism and Sustainability in the Art EcosystemOlga Sooudi
edited by Sujata Patel, D. Parthasarathy, and George Jose.
Sujata Patel is Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Umea University, Sweden (2021-2022). She has been Distinguished Professor, Savitribai Phule Pune University; National Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and a teacher of sociology at the Universities of Hyderabad, Pune, and SNDT Women⁰́₉s University. Her interests include modernity and social theory, history of sociology/social sciences, urbanisation and city-formation, social movements, gender construction, and caste and class formation in India with a historical sensibility based on perspectives from Marxism, feminism, spatial studies, and post-structuralism. She has authored, edited, and co-edited 14 books and 70 papers/ book chapters, and has served as editor of several series. She has been associated in various capacities with the International Sociological Association and has been its first Vice President for National Associations. She was also the President of Indian Sociological Society. D. Parthasarathy is Professor of Sociology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. He is also Associate Faculty at IIT Bombay's Centre for Urban Science and Engineering, the Centre for Policy Studies, and the Inter-disciplinary Program in Climate Studies. He has earlier worked or held visiting positions at the Australian National University, National University of Singapore, and Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. He held the India Value Fund Chair Professorship at IIT Bombay and has been Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Bombay and Convener for the IDP in Climate Studies. He is the author of Collective Violence in a Provincial City (1997), and has co-edited ⁰́₋Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia⁰́₊ (2013). His research and teaching interests are in urban studies, law and governance, gender and development, climate studies, and disaster risk andvulnerability. He has worked with civil society organisations, NGOs, environmental activists, government agencies, and international organisations on issues related to urban disasters and risks, climate vulnerability and adaptation, environmental justice, and coastal transformation. He has carried out collaborative national and international research projects sponsored by ICSSR, UGC, Belmont Forum, International Science Council, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, UNDP, Belmont Forum, and the European Union. George Jose is Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE. He researches metropolitan transformation in and of contemporary South Asia. His work explores the urban periphery as a site of culture and politics, urbanism in the global south, processes of work and consumption, and citizenship, rights, and marginalisation in the city. He has held research, teaching, and leadership positions in the academia and not-for-profit sectors. He was Dean of Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, NMIMS University, Mumbai; the inaugural Program Director for Asia Society India; Programme Executive with India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), Bengaluru; a Research Fellow at Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, and taught Sociology in Kishinchand Chellaram College, Mumbai, for several years.