Le città sostenibili sono "sostenibili" per i poveri? Uno studio a Calcutta in India orientale,

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Author/s Sana Huque, Sarmistha Pattanaik, Devanathan Parthasarathy
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/109
Language English Pages 13 P. 9-21 File size 377 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2016-109002
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

L’obiettivo principale di questo articolo è rivedere criticamente alcuni approcci associati all’ambientalismo urbano e alle città sostenibili, attraverso l’analisi del caso di alcune tra le principali città indiane. Calcutta viene presa in considerazione per via dei suoi tentativi di raggiungere lo status di world-class city. Attraverso lo studio di caso, l’articolo tenta di esaminare se questa città stia riuscendo o meno ad abbinare giustizia sociale e giustizia ecologica nell’ambito del suo attuale approccio allo sviluppo.

Keywords: Development, Displacement, Environmentalism, Livelihood, Sustainability, Wetlands

  1. Bakshi I. (2014). The India of 2025: 49 city clusters to drive growth. Business Standard: text available: http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/the-india-of-2025-49-city-clusters-to-drive-growth-114103001651_1.html (consultation August 5, 2015)
  2. Banerjee S. (2012). The March of the Mega-city: Governance in West Bengal and the Wetlands to the East of Kolkata. South Asia Chronicle, 2: 93-118.
  3. Banerjee-Guha S. (2012). Nonadanga Eviction Questioning the Right to the City. Economic & Political Weekly, XLVII (17): 13-15.
  4. Baviskar A. (2003). Between violence and desire: Space, power, and identity in the making of metropolitan Delhi. International Social Science Journal: 55 (175), 89-98. DOI: 10.1111/1468-2451.5501009
  5. Baviskar A. (2011). Cows, Cars and Cycle-rickshaws: Bourgeois Environmentalists and the Battle for Delhi’s Streets. In Baviskar A., Ray R. (eds.). Elite and Everyman. New Delhi: Routledge.
  6. Baviskar A. (2012). Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The Indian Experience. In Saleth R.M. (ed.). From Individual to Community: Issues in Development Studies. SAGE Publications India and Madras Institute of Development Studies.
  7. Bhan G. (2009). This is no longer the city I once knew. Evictions, the urban poor and the right to the city in millennial Delhi. Environment and Urbanization, 21(1): 127-142.
  8. Blassingame L. (1998). Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron, Utopia, or Inevitability. The Social Science Journal, 35(1): 1-13. DOI: 10.1016/S0362-3319(98)90055-
  9. Bose P.S. (2013). Bourgeois environmentalism, leftist development and neoliberal urbanism in the City of Joy. In Samara T.R., He S., Chen G. (eds.). Locating Right to the City in the Global South. New York: Routledge.
  10. Brand P., Thomas M.J. (2005). Urban Environmentalism. Oxon: Routledge.
  11. Brar J., Gupta S., Madgavkar A., Maitra B.C., Rohra S., Sundar M. (2014, October). India's Economic Geography in 2025: States, cluters and cities (Rep.): available at http://mckinseyinsightsindia.com/Documents/India’s economic geography in 2025 - states, clusters and cities.pdf (consultation August 8, 2015)
  12. Census of India (2001). Census of India 2001, Series 1 India, Part II-B (i) Volume I, Primary Census Abstract, General Population, Government of India Publications, New Delhi.
  13. Census of India (2011). Primary Census Abstract Data: available at http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=352803 (September 12, 2015)
  14. Campbell S. (1996). Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning the Contradictions of Sustainable Development. Journal of the American Planning Association, 3: 296-312.
  15. De P. (2012). Rajarhat: When the Government Loots: text available at the website http://sanhati.com/articles/5354/ (consultation October 14, 2014)
  16. Fernandes L. (2004). The politics of forgetting: class politics, state power and the restructuring of urban space in India. Urban Studies, 41(12): 2415-2430. DOI: 10.1080/0042098041233129760
  17. Gidwani V., Baviskar A. (2011). Urban Commons. Economic & Political Weekly, 50: 42-43.
  18. Goldman M. (2011). Speculating on the Next World City. In Roy A., Ong A. (eds.). Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
  19. Hall P., Pfeiffer U. (2000). Urban Future 21: A global agenda for twenty-first century cities. London: Spon.
  20. Harvey D. (2005). A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  21. Heynen N.C., Kaika M., Swyngedouw E. (2006). Urban political ecology: politicizing of urban natures. In Heynen N.C., Kaika M., Swyngedouw E. (eds.). In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism. Oxon: Taylor & Francis
  22. Kundu N., Kumar R. (2010, November). East Kolkata Wetlands: text available at the website http://www.wetlands.org/Portals/0/publications/BSO publications/East Kolkata Wetland Newsletter Volume 1.pdf (consultation September 5, 2015)
  23. Kumar Pukuria Population - South Twenty Four Parganas, West Bengal. (n.d.): text available at the website http://www.census2011.co.in/data/village/333556-kumar-pukuria-west-bengal.html (consultation September 5, 2015)
  24. Mitra S. (2002). Planned Urbanisation through Public Participation. Economic & Political Weekly, XXXVII (11): 1048-1054.
  25. Parthasarathy D. (2009). Social and environmental insecurities in Mumbai: Towards a sociological perspective on vulnerability. South African Review of Sociology, 40(1): 109-126. DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2009.1042510
  26. RIS (2002). Information Sheet on Ramsar wetlands (RIS). Ramsar Sites Information Service: available at https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/1208 (consultation September 12, 2015)
  27. Ray S., Niyogi S. (2014, January 5). Heart of East Kokata wetlands under siege? Times of India. available at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Heart-of-East-Kokata-wetlands-under-siege/articleshow/28418032.cms (consultation August 5, 2015)
  28. Sassen S. (2005). The Global City: Introducing a Concept. The Brown Journal of World Affairs, XI (2).
  29. Seabrook J. (1996). In the Cities of the South: Scenes from a Developing World. New York: Verso.
  30. Sharma A. (1998, October 1). Clean and beautiful, that’s Chowpatty. Bombay Times.
  31. Tabaijuka A. (2006). The importance of urban planning in urban poverty reduction and sustainable development. World Planners Congress. Vancouver.
  32. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2015). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 Revision, (ST/ESA/SER.A/366).
  33. Watson V. (2009). The planned city sweeps the poor away: Urban planning and 21st century urbanisation. Progress in Planning, 72(3): 151-193. DOI: 10.1016/j.progress.2009.06.00

Sana Huque, Sarmistha Pattanaik, Devanathan Parthasarathy, Are sustainable cities "sustainable" for the poor? a study of kolkata in eastern india in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 109/2016, pp 9-21, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2016-109002