Heritage, crafting communities and urban transformation: Durga Puja Festival, Kolkata
"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...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London New York
Routledge
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Edition: | First published |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge studies in urbanism and the city
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Calcutta
/ Navaratri
/ Arts and crafts
/ Potter
/ Custom
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| Further subjects: | B
Heritage Tourism
Economic aspects
B Durgā-pūjā (Hindu festival) (India) B City planning and redevelopment (India) B Marginality, Social Political aspects (India) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 978-1-003-34122-2 |
| Summary: | "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, socio-political 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 cultural tourism, the city'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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1032376473 |