This book emphasises the need to empower marginalised communities to
contribute to decision-making processes within policy realms. It
contributes to ongoing debates in the social sciences about
infrastructure rights and citizenship, and it throws insight on
human–infrastructure interactions in the informal neighbourhoods of
the global South. The book delves into the complexities of caste,
gender, class, and political identities and affiliations associated
with the multiple factors of inclusion and exclusion particularly in
the case of access to infrastructure in informal settlements in urban
areas with an added productive function. This book is about how this
historic inner-city, situated, religious idol-crafting community is
transforming due to factors including access to physical and social
infrastructure, local governance policies, sociopolitical hierarchies,
and complexities of informal tenure. Drawing on sociocultural norms,
and values of idol-crafting practices, it documents, analyses, and
presents the networks and relations of the neighbourhood through a
spatial and material lens. Findings contribute to understanding how
traditional practices of a crafting community are adapting,
appropriating, producing, and reshaping informal spaces in Kumartuli.
The book is aimed at academic audiences across the world researching
creative industries, Kolkata’s regeneration agenda, and cultural
tourism. It will be of interest to the wide disciplines of Urban
Studies, Development Studies, Architecture and Planning, and Culture
and Tourism Studies.
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Durga Puja Festival, Kolkata
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000983807
Publisert
2023
Utgave
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Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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