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No One Will Let Her Live: Women's Struggle for Well-Being in a Delhi Slum The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 246–249.
Published: 01 February 2017
... form in spite of myriad pressures to remove or reform it, while Claire Snell-Rood considers individual women who employ very personal strategies of social, moral, and physical resilience as they reside in, and experience the demolition of, a Delhi slum. Weinstein's study is centrally concerned...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 498–502.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Sai Balakrishnan Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums . By Adam Michael Auerbach . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . xvii, 304 pp. ISBN: 9781108491938 (cloth). Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Slums</span>: Of Labor and Democracy in Indian Cities - Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban <span class="search-highlight">Slums</span> and Making the Modern <span class="search-highlight">Slum</span>: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay
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To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1046–1048.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., as feminists have theorized, women's “personal became political” to shape the moral community that was not defined by confessional faith or pitting one community against the other. This, in turn, fashioned Dalit humanism or “slum humanism” (p. 242), as Roberts argues. Nevertheless, women improved their own...
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Governing the Urban in India and China: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Pollution
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1161–1163.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Liza Weinstein Governing the Urban in India and China: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Pollution . By Xuefei Ren . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2020 . 208 pp. ISBN: 9780691203393 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022...
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Social Life in an Indian Slum
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (2): 373–374.
Published: 01 February 1977
...Karen L. Michaelson Social Life in an Indian Slum . By Paul D. Wiebe . Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press , 1975 . vii, 179 pp. Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $6.75 (cloth); $4.75 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 373...
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Slum as a Way of Life: A Study of Coping Behavior in an Urban Environment Political Regime and Public Policy in the Philippines: A Comparison of Bacolod and Iloilo Cities
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (2): 388–390.
Published: 01 February 1977
... Report 11, 1975 . vii, 165 pp. Tables, Figures, Maps, Bibliography. $7.00 (Dist. by Cellar Book Shop) Slum as a Way of Life: A Study of Coping Behavior in an Urban Environment . By F. Landa Jocano . Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press , 1975 . xviii, 203 pp. Tables, Index...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Slum</span> as a Way of Life: A Study of Coping Behavior in an Urban Environment Political Regime and Public Policy in the Philippines: A Comparison of Bacolod and Iloilo Cities
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Gender and Slum Culture in Urban Asia
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 521–523.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Neville S. Arachchige Don Gender and Slum Culture in Urban Asia . By Susanne Thorbek . London and New Jersey : Zed Books Ltd. , 1994 . 223 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 521 most...
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Shiv Sena Women: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 324–325.
Published: 01 February 2009
...William Harman Shiv Sena Women: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum . By Atreyee Sen . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2007 . ix , 220 pp. $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 The Mahila Agadi (Women's Front...
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Revisiting Korean Slums in Postwar Japan: Tongne and Hakkyo in the Zainichi Memoryscape
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 587–610.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of underclass ethnic minorities. But zainichi Koreans who grew up in such slums, which they called tongne , offer inspirational stories and fond memories of living there. This article sheds light on Koreans’ postwar experiences by discussing the important sociopolitical functions of the tongne...
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Slums are for People: The Barrio Magsaysay Pilot Project in Philippine Urban Community Development
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (3): 748–749.
Published: 01 May 1972
...Wilfredo F. Arce Slums are for People: The Barrio Magsaysay Pilot Project in Philippine Urban Community Development . By Aprodicio A. Laquian . Honolulu : The East-West Center Press , 1971 . xvi, 245 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Glossary, Index. $9.00. Copyright © The Association...
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Bangkok Slums: Review and Recommendations
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 645–646.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Richard A. O'Connor Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 Bangkok Slums: Review and Recommendations . By Sopon Pornchokchai . Bangkok : School of Urban Community Research Actions . 1993 . xiii, 184 pp. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 645 drawing mostly...
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Slums along the Ishidō River, 1961. Courtesy of Nishiyama Uzō Photography A...
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Published: 01 August 2021
Figures 1 and 2. Slums along the Ishidō River, 1961. Courtesy of Nishiyama Uzō Photography Archives.
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Slums along the Ishidō River, 1961. Courtesy of Nishiyama Uzō Photography A...
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in Revisiting Korean Slums in Postwar Japan: Tongne and Hakkyo in the Zainichi Memoryscape
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Published: 01 August 2021
Figures 3 and 4. Slums along the Ishidō River, 1961. Courtesy of Nishiyama Uzō Photography Archives.
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Factory Workers and the Non-Factory Population in Poona
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 18 (1): 21–42.
Published: 01 November 1958
...; they have confounded the effects of rapid, slum-producing urbanization with the factory situation itself; they have dealt with relatively new factories that have not as yet had time to become imbedded in the local institutional framework; and finally, they have selected situations in which the area...
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Contemporary Marathi Fiction: Obscenity or Realism?
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 29 (1): 55–66.
Published: 01 November 1969
... unconventional themes, such as slum life, deviant behavior, and physical love. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 1 Marathi is one of the major Indo-Aryan languages of India and is spoken by approximately thirty-three million persons. It is the official language...
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Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok's Margins
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 195–196.
Published: 01 February 2024
... and humanities, childhood is understood as a concept whose definitions are heterogeneous and always changing. Through this analytical lens, Giuseppe Bolotta's book offers a unique outlook on the politics of everyday life in Bangkok. The book focuses on dek salam , translated as “slum children,” who reside...
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Vidroh (Revolution) to Dhanda (Deal/Business): Mumbai of Many Faces, ca. 1896–2016
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 606–609.
Published: 01 August 2022
... inhabited by the mill city's working classes as the causes of the epidemic, and the Bombay City Improvement Trust was founded, inaugurating an era of deliberate remaking of city spaces. Over the next century, the city underwent several phases of planning alongside the continuous expansion of slums...
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Bengali Women
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (2): 374–375.
Published: 01 February 1977
..., Professor Wiebe has set as his purpose the task of giving a comprehensive picture of the ways in which the members of a slum in Madras organize their lives and relate themselves to their various environments. He breaks this task into two separate areas: (i) providing a view of the social life of an Indian...
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Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 646–648.
Published: 01 May 1994
..., once perhaps a quarter of all dwellings, is down to 11 percent. Such relative improvements aside, Bangkok still has at least 981 slums that house perhaps 16 percent of its population. Not all slum-dwellers are poor. Some who sublet become " 'big' houselords," dominating their neighborhoods, while...
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BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 272–274.
Published: 01 February 2018
... with donor agencies and urban-poor representatives, outreach meetings between Water Board representatives and slum dwellers, and other conversations with residents and IT employees. We learn about citizens’ pride for IT, about the shame and scourge of corruption, and about the potential of a neoliberal logic...
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