In Search of Home by Kaveri Haritas - 9781108834049

Cambridge University Press

In Search of HomeCitizenship, Law and the Politics of the Poor\nAuthor(s): Kaveri Haritas\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108834049, 978-1108834049\nSynopsis\nIn Search of Home explores a new yet less explored space of urban poverty rehabilitation housing for the displaced poor, which increasingly dots the peripheries of Indian cities. This longitudinal ethnography examines these new liminal zones suspended between a slum and the legal city, producing 'citizenship in-limbo' and relegating the poor to perpetual dependence on the state albeit legal residence. It examines how the flexible governance of such housing produces illegalities, and how state institutions and actors stand to gain through systemic corruption that co-opts urban poor groups, pre-empting radical resistance. This book makes central the gendered nature of such politics, detailing the everyday political work of women, vital to.