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Middle-Class and Slum-Based Collective Action in Bangalore

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  • Lalitha Kamath
  • M. Vijayabaskar

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This article contributes to further our understanding of factors shaping collective action in urban India. Based primarily on fieldwork conducted in slums and middle-class neighbourhoods in Bangalore, the article strengthens the case against a dualistic reading of collective action by identifying some important convergences between actions of middle-class and slum-based associations. It argues that new urban governance initiatives have been worked by slum-based associations to make claims in ways that are reminiscent of the ‘insurgent citizenship’ observed among middle-class associations. The article also highlights how slum-based mobilizations are driven not merely by patron–client political networks or the politics of stealth, but also inspired from larger identity-based movements. Middle-class associations, on the other hand, reveal increasingly deeper engagement with formal politics, a realm that the ‘new politics’ had not earlier engaged with.

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  • Lalitha Kamath & M. Vijayabaskar, 2014. "Middle-Class and Slum-Based Collective Action in Bangalore," Journal of South Asian Development, , vol. 9(2), pages 147-171, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:soudev:v:9:y:2014:i:2:p:147-171
    DOI: 10.1177/0973174114536098
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    1. Auerbach, Adam Michael, 2017. "Neighborhood Associations and the Urban Poor: India’s Slum Development Committees," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 119-135.

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