About the Book

Through the analysis of Indian metropolises, this volume critiques the reality of “entrepreneurial governance” that has emerged as a major urban development practice in cities of the global south. In neoliberal India, the use of management rhetoric in urban development has rapidly led to the growth of urban/peri-urban structures and spaces that are supposedly “smart” and “entrepreneurial”, which are networked within global systems of production, finance, technology/ telecommunication, culture and politics.

Through diverse empirical evidence from India, particularly from the metropolises of New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai, this volume focuses on the fallout of the deployment of “entrepreneurial governance” practices at national, state and local levels. Foremost, it explores the impact of specific institutional and organizational reorientations and changing urban spatial landscapes at the local level; secondly, it discusses the socio-economic implications of rollback ofthe state and involvement of non-state organizations in governance as part of urban entrepreneurialism; further, it discusses the regulation of urban development projects by local governments and the impact of "entrepreneurial governance" for citizens, often resulting in social exclusion and inequality. Finally, it explores the inherent contradictions within political and institutional landscapes that can be described as “entrepreneurial”.

Contents

1        Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India: A Framework K.C. Smitha

Part I: Urban Governance and Institutions

2        Introducing Urban Entrepreneurialism in India: An Analysis of Programmatic Interventions

          Debolina Kundu and Sudhir Krishna

3        Entrepreneurial Governance in a Resilient City: Bengaluru, India

          H.S. Sudhira

Part II: Political Economy of Urbanisation

4       From Hierarchy to Heterarchy: Moving Beyond Entrepreneurial Governance. Municipal Reforms Programme in Karnataka

          Anjali Karol Mohan

5        'Speculative Spaces': The Material Practices of Urban Entrepreneurialism

          Raman Bhuvaneswari

6       The Politics of Entrepreneurial Vision Group Plans and their Impact at the Local (Government) Level, Bengaluru

          Vinay Baindur

Part III: Urban Inclusion and Exclusion

7        Remaking the 'mohalla': Muslim basti-dwellers and Entrepreneurial Urbanism in Mumbai

          Qudsiya Contractor

8       Fragile Entrepreneurialism: The Mumbai Airport Slum Redevelopment Project

          Xuefei Ren

9       Planning their Homes in Entrepreneurial City: The Capacities of Urban Poor and the Constraints of Public Policy

          Swetha Rao Dhananka

10     Spatial Reproduction of Urban Poverty in Entrepreneurial City: Bengaluru, India

          K.C. Smitha

About the Author / Editor

Smitha Kanekanti Chandrashekar is Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Urban Affairs (CRUA), Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, India.  Her research focuses mainly on urban governance, service delivery, urban poverty, urban informality, urban political economy and urban political ecology. She has a PhD in Political Science & Public Administration from the Institute for Social and Economic Change (through the University of Mysore). Her doctoral research examined urban governance and service delivery of water supply and sanitation in Bengaluru, assessing the impact of neoliberal urban sector reforms on service delivery and equity. Over the past several years, she has been actively engaged in varied urban research projects such as structure of Indian metropolises, rural-urban migration, urban deprivation, urban infrastructure, urban poor and urban land governance from interdisciplinary perspective. She has published several book chaptersand articles in peer reviewed journals.