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McFarlane, Colin. "Travelling knowledges : urban poverty and slum/shack dwellers international." Thesis, Durham University, 2004. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3126/.
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The relationship between knowledge and development is of growing importance in development theory and practice. Despite the growth in interest, there are significant issues that have not been explored in detail. I will focus on some of these issues, including: the ways in which knowledge and learning are conceived and created in development; the ways in which knowledge travels; the opportunities for learning between 'North' and 'South'; and the political spaces that are created through different kinds of knowledge. To explore these issues, I examine a network of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community-based organisations (CBOs) called Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI). This network seeks to reconfigure the governance of urban poverty reduction strategies and encourage poor' people to re-think their own capacities and potentials. In particular, I draw on interview-based fieldwork conducted on one key member of this group, the Indian Alliance based in Mumbai. I critically examine some of the possibilities and challenges of various forms of 'travelling knowledges'. These are strategies that have travelled through exchanges, wherein groups of poor people travel from one settlement to another to share stories and experiences with other poor people in what amounts to an informal 'training' process. By examining exchanges between SDI and groups in the UK, I critically discuss the broader potential in development to move beyond barriers of North and South that limit learning. I adopt a broadly post-rationalist approach to the concerns in the thesis. Through this, I argue the importance of considering knowledge and learning as produced through relations of near and far, social and material, and as driven by routines and practices. A post-rationalist approach helps us to understand and appreciate the importance of geography for knowledge and learning in the SDI network. This approach draws attention to power. It encourages a critical consciousness that is alert to the kinds of knowledge conceived for development, and that recognizes the various ways in which different knowledges help create different types of politics. A post-rationalist approach also cautions against conceptions of knowledge and learning that risk marginalizing geography and power in development more generally. The thesis demonstrates the need to give further consideration of how knowledge is conceived as a development strategy, and what the potential possibilities and pitfalls of travelling knowledges are.
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Tsujita, Yuko. "Education, poverty and schooling : a study of Delhi slum dwellers." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/49668/.
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Poverty reduction and Education for All (EFA) are important policy issues in many developing countries as they are both Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). As the existing literature suggests, education positively influences poverty reduction, while poverty, or low income, adversely affects the quality and quantity of education. Accordingly, if education fails to facilitate poverty reduction, the following generation's schooling is likely to be adversely affected, thus perpetuating a vicious education–poverty circle. It was against such a background, and employing a mixed methods approach to data collection and analysis, that this study investigated the relationship between education and multidimensional poverty at an individual as well as household level, and the influence of deprivation on children's education, in the context of the slum in Delhi, India. The thesis reveals that education – particularly primary and middle schooling – enhances the earnings of male slum dwellers in particular, the overwhelming majority of whom suffer from informality and instability of employment. It also emerges that education plays an important role in the ability to participate with confidence in the public sphere. At the household level, education proves to have a positive association with monetary poverty, but a higher level of education per se does not necessarily facilitate escape from non-monetary poverty. In such a nexus of poverty and education, the thesis found that household wealth in association with social group and migration status tends to be positively correlated with child schooling, education expenditure, and basic learning. There may be a chance of escaping poverty through education, but such a likelihood is limited for those households that are underprivileged in terms of caste and religion owing to slow progress in basic learning, as well as migrant households due to lack of access to schooling. The thesis concludes by proposing some education policies drawn from the major findings of the study that may be implemented in the Indian slum context.
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Mukhija, Vinit. "Squatters as developers? : Mumbai's slum dwellers as equity partners in redevelopment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8959.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-201).
This dissertation analyzes the slum redevelopment strategy introduced by the state government of Maharashtra (India) in its capital city, Mumbai (Bombay). The strategy involves demolishing the existing slums and building on the same sites at a higher density, new, medium rise apartment-blocks including entirely cross-subsidized housing for the original slum dwellers. Slum redevelopment is distinctly different from the two prevalent conventional strategies with respect to slums in developing countries - slum clearance and slum upgrading. Interestingly, the strategy appears to enjoy considerable support of slum dwellers, NGOs, private developers and politicians. The study focuses on a single slum redevelopment case - the Markandeya Cooperative Housing Society (MCHS) - to show how the state government amended the land development regulations to enhance the potential land values and allowed the slum dwellers to share in the high development values. This analysis of the role of the State in promoting a new housing strategy and providing crucial support in implementation contributes to our understanding of housing provision policy in three ways. First, it provides insights into slum redevelopment as an alternative housing strategy. It analyzes the problems faced and the solutions innovated in the implementation of this strategy. It argues that despite slum redevelopment's shortcomings, the strategy may be superior to other alternatives, especially if the State can provide implementation support. Second, it identifies nontraditional issues, often overlooked in housing improvement that may help make slum upgrading programs more successful. Contrary to the conventional focus only on private property rights, the dissertation argues for policy to be based on a differentiated view of property rights (including common property rights) that also considers the property values, the physical structure of the property-holdings and the interplay among these issues. Third, the study reveals the complexities involved in housing production for low-income groups and demonstrates that enabling housing provision, even with the participation of private sector agents, requires an active government role. Paradoxically, enabling may require four levels of seeming contradictions - both decentralization and centralization; both demand-driven and supply driven development; both private as well as public investment; and both deregulation and new regulations.
by Vinit Mukhija.
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Manandhar, Mary Catherine. "Undernutrition and impaired functional ability amongst elderly slum dwellers in Mumbai, India." Thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367911.
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Desai, Vandana. "Aspects of community participation among slum dwellers in achieving housing in Bombay." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d4839cdd-effd-4ff2-975a-9a73c7b31d75.
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This thesis is concerned with the housing and service needs of the poor (slum dwellers) in Bombay and how they are articulated and satisfied. It discusses how the poor perceive the constraints on slum servicing and improvement, their involvement in community organizations, and the role the community and its leaders play in influencing state action. Since housing and servicing issues directly impinge on the interests of politicians and bureaucrats as well as on those of the poor, patterns of provision mirror closely the nature of the relationship between the poor and how political and administrative power operates at various levels. Chapter 1 provides the research aims and objectives while Chapter 2 reviews the literature on community participation. Chapter 3 on Bombay places housing development in context and also serves as background study to the thesis. This research studies three different slum settlements housing migrants to Bombay. Two surveys of these three slum settlements were carried out, involving interviews with 135 households. Chapter 4 describes the characteristics of these households, while chapters 5, 6, and 7 give the arguments of the thesis. It is shown that, despite an established system of representative community organisations and a pro-participation rhetoric in bureaucratic discourse, most slum dwellers are excluded from participating in decision-making. A patron-client relationship exists between politicians, bureaucrats and community leaders, both in determining the community leaders' power as well as the level of services and physical benefits that he/she could win for the slum community. Leaders are generally better educated, better employed, more prosperous and highly motivated than most of their community. The NGO in this study has acted mainly as intermediary between the government and the slum-dwellers.
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Woiwode, Christoph. "Urban risk communication in Ahmedabad, India : between slum dwellers and the municipal corporation." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445152/.
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Since rapid urban growth forces poor households to settle in highly congested urban areas, slum dwellers are increasingly vulnerable due to a multiplicity of hazards rooted in the environment, nature, health, society and the urban economy. Hitherto, the understanding of urban risks and the vulnerability of inhabitants has been an underrepresented subject in urban planning. The different reasoning and rationales of slum dwellers, municipal authorities and other actors provide each with different perceptions of risks. This study focuses on the communication of urban risks between two slum communities and the Municipal Corporation of Ahmedabad by examining endeavours in slum improvement and more responsive urban governance. In using a conceptual framework that synthesises socio-cultural approaches to risk, communication theories and collaborative planning theory, the thesis points out the deficiencies and potentials of risk communication in long-term urban development planning. Currently urban risk management is not recognised as an integrated, cross-sectoral topic by the Municipal Corporation. Due to the structural fabric of the administration and the lack of capacity and guidance, the notion of risk is based on conventional approaches to disaster risk management with responsibilities spread across various departments. By contrast, slum dwellers have a much more integrated understanding of the micro-level risk conditions in which they live and work. The findings of this study suggest that a meaningful two-way communication process can only take place if the interaction of stakeholders is understood in terms of human relationships that go beyond techno-bureaucratic co-ordination and the prevalent notion of mono-directional communication. This concept of communication is underpinned by values such as trust, fairness, credibility and justice in interaction in the context of urban governance. The research approach and the findings suggest areas for improved policy making and further research. The outcome of the research especially contributes to a better understanding of urban risk situations in the social and cultural contexts of poor communities in India. Hence this investigation may be viewed as a potential basis for generating practical guidelines for mitigation policies and their links to urban governance.
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Tesot, Longinus. "Managing Urban Sprawls in Cities of the Developing South : The Case of Slum Dwellers International." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-201388.
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This thesis seeks to review Urban Sustainability in cities of the Developing South within the broader spectrum of Sustainable Development. Notably, the Developing South has for many years struggled to embrace Sustainability in its general terms: in part, because of the fragile institutions that cannot be counted on to uphold sustainability in the truest sense of the word; and in part because of the numerous challenges that often distract any attempt to prioritize Sustainable Development. Sustainability then becomes an option in the midst of other options, rather than an option that should affect all other options. Narrowing it down further to matters urban makes it even stranger in a host of cities across the Developing South. It is against this backdrop that this study seeks to examine in depth the contextual challenges that have invariably stood in the way of Sustainable Development across the Developing South. While it may not be practically possible in a four-month study to offer outright solutions or recommendations that could address these challenges in entirety, this study nevertheless has endeavoured to stay true to the realities that are often ignored whenever challenges of Sustainable Development are mentioned on global platforms. Among these realities is the reality of slum presence in most cities of the Developing South that existentially complicates any equation for urban sustainability ever formulated to provide a way out or forward for these cities. State governments understand this too well, and so do Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and international organizations alike involved in the crusade for improved living conditions for city resident, and in particular slum residents. Yet the State governments have never been as resolute in their quest for slum free cities. The question then remains: exactly what are the sustainable approaches for this noble cause? While the State governments have over the years insisted on enforcing conventional approaches (that include forced evictions, relocations and/ or redevelopment); one international network, however, thinks and responds differently to slum situations. The network is Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI). It is considerably this network of slum dwellers and their undeniably innovative approach to urban sustainability and inclusivity that largely frames the direction and general content of this study. Specifically, the methodology adopted in the study is one of a Case study - which in this case is SDI; and two separate Cases, namely Railway Relocation Action Plan (RAP) in Nairobi, Kenya and slum Re-blocking project in Joe Slovo, Cape Town, South Africa, respectively - as typical cases that captures in large part the enormous contribution that SDI is making towards inclusive and sustainable cities in the Developing South. In the discussion part, however, the study introduces Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) as a comparative methodology to SDI’s approach. SSM particularly benefits from LUMAS model and Social Learning – both key components that potentially reserve a dynamic capacity to enriching SDI’s approach as a future reference methodology for urban sustainability and inclusivity.
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Roy, Sarkar Ranjita. "Study on socio-economic conditions of slum dwellers of siliguri municipal corporation: geographical analysis." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2018. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/2795.
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Bisiaux, R. "Making a living in a slum settlement : the relative influence of norms, cognition and group practices on slum dwellers' choices related to earning a living." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1470166/.
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This doctoral thesis explores slum dwellers’ decisions regarding their ways of making a living. The different aspects of earning one’s life in a poverty situation have been mostly studied from the perspective of livelihood assets, the circulation of information about opportunities, the management of skills and relationships, and the affirmation of personal significance in carrying out one’s livelihood strategy. By contrast, this research investigates the decisions behind making a living, by looking at the relative influence of 1) the norms shaping the slum dwellers’ environment, 2) slum dwellers’ individual intentions, 3) slum dwellers’ motivation to comply with others’ behaviours, and 4) the narratives slum dwellers build around the rationality of their choices. In an attempt to address the knowledge gap concerning the interactions between decision-making and poverty, the research documents and analyses the interplay of individual and social factors affecting decision-making processes in the Thapathali slum settlement of Kathmandu, Nepal. The research shows that through their discourse, slum dwellers relay normative beliefs, that is, beliefs which are influenced by norms or definitions of what is acceptable. It is found that these normative beliefs have a partially prescriptive role in determining how slum dwellers make decisions. Most unexpectedly, while slum dwellers’ interpretations of norms produce normative beliefs that are difficult to revise such as valuation neglect – the dispositions of slum dwellers to strive for further opportunities being limited by the collective interpretation of their constrained situation –, the research demonstrates that particular norms such as religious and caste-related norms create a room for manoeuvre as slum dwellers interpret these norms while serving their individual interests, therefore shifting the boundaries of the collectively accepted norms. Driven by one’s will to ‘opt out’ from caste discrimination, some slum dwellers instrumentalise their religious affiliation and convert to Christianity to overcome discrimination and access further benefits within the community, while others make use of their caste-related skills to enhance their array of opportunities. The research concludes that decisions related to making a living in situations of poverty are primarily characterised by the volatility of the normative beliefs behind these decisions: slum dwellers recurrently interpret and re-interpret norms in an attempt to best align their behaviours with their individual intentions and the collective reasons given for certain behaviours within the community. As such, it is the study of the production of normative beliefs that best achieves the unpacking of decision processes and decision practices related to making a living in the Thapathali slum settlement.
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Andavarapu, Deepika. "Victims or Survivors: A View of Resilience from Slum-Dwellers Perspective (A Case Of Pedda-Jalaripeta, India)." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468511965.
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Mondal, Pankaj Kumar. "RESPONSE OF SLUM DWELLERS TO INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: A CASE STUDY OF BARTALA PROJECT IN KOLKATA." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1455.
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Odeny, Millicent Akinyi. "The relation between access to water poverty and patriarchy : the case of women slum dwellers in Kibera Kenya." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76755.
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Das, Madhumita. "Enquiry into the living conditions of slum dwellers in Siliguri Municipal Corporation Area with special reference to health and education." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2022. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4786.
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Erik, Rosshagen. "Counterspaces : On power in slum upgrading from a Thirdspace perspective. A case study from Kambi Moto." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-183383.
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The study takes its point of departure in the urgent problem of slums that follow on the rapid urbanisation worldwide. Focusing on the small informal settlement of Kambi Moto in Nairobi, Kenya, the study tries to answer the question of how power can be worked out in slum upgrading – a way to change the physical environment of a slum without demolishing and rebuilding the whole settlement. The theoretical tool to answer this question is taken from Edward Soja’s reading of Henry Lefebvre in the concept Thirdspace – an extended and politicised way to look at space, where space is not only seen as a stage for historical and social processes, but as something that is shaping our thoughts and actions; a social space that includes and goes beyond the material Firstspace and the mental Secondspace. From a spatialized reading of history today’s situation – where 60 % of the population of Nairobi live in informal settlements – is traced back to the ideological structuring of space in the colonial cityplans. The informal settlements are established as a Thirdspace: both a negative outcome of the dominating Secondspace of the colonial administration and as a counterspace, where traditional ways of life could live on and where revolutionary movements could grow. The study then focus on how the two scales to view the city, the macro and the micro, are resolved in the Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), a global network of local federations that organizes slum dwellers. The network empowers the individual slum dweller in making him/her an actor in a peer to peer exchange, and also creates a social space for political struggle. This is manifested in Muungano wa Wanavijiji, a citywide movement for a collective struggle for spatial rights, empowering the slum dwellers in taking charge of the social production of human spatiality. In a case study of a slum upgrading effort in Kambi Moto the shifting of power from the government, international organisations and professionals to the lived Thirdspace of the habitants, as well as the internal power relations within the community, are looked at in a concrete situation.
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Jacob, Filho Jorge Rodrigues. "The price of threat: the role of identity-safe marketplaces in predicting intergroup price sensitivity." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/16579.
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In field experiments with subjects living either inside or outside Brazilian slums (n=955), we show that consumers living in slums are less price sensitive, in opposition with recent price sensitivity research. Comparing slum and non-slum dwellers, we found that negatively stereotyped consumers (e.g. slum dwellers) were more likely to pay higher amounts for friendlier customer service when facing social identity threats (SITs) in marketplaces such as banks. The mechanism which makes them less price sensitive is related to the perception of how other people evaluate their social groups, and we argue that they pay more because they are seeking identity-safe commercial relationships. This work, besides extending the literature in SITs, presents a perspective for the exchange between economics and psychology on price sensitivity, showing that consumers living in slums are willing to pay more to avoid possibly social identity threating experiences.
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Campbell, Patricia F. "'The shack becomes the house, the slum becomes the suburb and the slum dweller becomes the citizen' : experiencing abandon and seeking legitimacy in Dar es Salaam." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5612/.
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This thesis considers the (over)promotion of formal home ownership, and the parallel neglect of rental housing, in international development policy and practice. Using a qualitative methodology, which incorporates policy analysis, as well as interviews and focus groups with key informants and informal residents, this research has moved beyond broad, singular conceptualisations of the ‘slum’. Instead, this study offers an insight into the multiple lived experiences of informal urban housing, in the context of a tenure-biased policy landscape. Research with informal residents was carried out exclusively with members of community-led groups who are in the process of resettling to formal plots on the margins of Dar es Salaam city. Drawing upon Foucaultian governmentality scholarship, the findings of this study highlight the centrality of housing tenure in notions of being counted, recognition and urban citizenship. The research findings highlight the complexities of informal urban housing, drawing particular attention to the everyday realities of renting shelter in the urban private rental market. In exploring the lived realities of informal housing in Dar es Salaam, this thesis uncovers the everyday realities of a wholesale neglect of the private rental sector in policy and the lack of recognition of private renters by the Tanzanian state. Using two distinct case-studies of forced eviction in Dar es Salaam, this thesis interrogates the process and management of eviction, demonstrating the centrality of tenure in determining the validity of claims for state support and recognition and in shaping state-citizen relations. In engaging with members of community-led groups that are resettling, and have resettled, to formal plots on the urban fringe, this thesis further scrutinises the positioning of individual, formal home ownership as a universal normative ideal. This research considers resettlement as a considered strategy by informal residents to achieve a sense of belonging in Dar es Salaam, a performance of citizenship. Yet, this thesis questions ‘resettlement’ as an optimum strategy for securing an officially recognised place in the city. This thesis will consider the complex hopes, dreams and trade-offs made in decisions to resettle and consider the implications of resettlement for notions of a right to the city.
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Sandhu, Ranvinder Singh. "The urban poor in Amritsar city : A sociological study of the slum dwellers." Thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/4589.
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Devadas, Charles J. "A sociological study of the Christian organizations in the rehabilitation of slum dwellers in Bangalore City." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/2073.
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SHRUTI. "A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON FINANCIAL INCLUSION OF SLUM DWELLERS IN TWO MAJOR METROPOLITAN CITIES IN INDIA: DELHI & MUMBAI." Thesis, 2020. http://dspace.dtu.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/repository/18033.
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In present scenario, exclusion of people from formal banking system is a major challenge
faced by the policy makers towards achieving the goal of inclusive growth. Financial
inclusion in this regard is widely emphasized for poverty reduction and economic growth by
many nations. To increase the access and usage of formal banking services among people in
India the government introduced various schemes and initiatives. Despite this greater
emphasis a larger section of people is financially excluded in India (Census of India, 2011).
Though, financial services access is adequate in urban areas in comparison to rural parts, yet
usage of these services is seen low. A thorough review of literature revealed that studies
related to financial inclusion are scanty in urban context. Therefore, taking cognizance of past
studies this study proposed four objectives, firstly to explore factors affecting financial
exclusion, secondly to study the determinant of financial inclusion, thirdly to expound factors
affecting formal and informal borrowing and lastly to study the relationship between financial
inclusion and financial remittance. This study was conducted in slums of two major metro
cities in India i.e., Delhi and Mumbai. A multistage cluster sampling technique was used to
collect the data. While, primary data was collected through face to face interviews conducted
with the help of a questionnaire. In total, 450 individuals each in Delhi and Mumbai were
selected for the sample.
There exist many commonalities and difference in utilization of various financial services in
these two cities. The study reveals range of socio-economic factors affecting the financial
inclusion. Though, formal credit usage is seen low and mostly affected by factors like age
and household expenditure. Further, it was found that no saving, lengthy bank process and
high bank charges are likely to impact exclusion from banking services in both cities.
Though, this study found no significant relationship between financial inclusion and financial
remittance. The study has various policy implications to banks and the government in
strategizing better policies for financial inclusion in urban areas in India.
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Antwal, Prabhavati Namdeorao. "An indepth study on uplift of slum dwellers through urban basic services for the poor in Parbhani District." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/6187.
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HALL, Bogumila. "Subaltern rightful struggles : comparative ethnographies of the Bedouin villagers in the Naqab and the akhdam slum dwellers in Sana'a." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/41604.
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Defence date: 27 May 2016Examining Board: Professor Donatella della Porta, EUI/SNS (Supervisor); Professor Asef Bayat, University of Illinois (External Supervisor); Professor Salwa Ismail, SOAS, University of London; Professor Olivier Roy, European University Institute.
Liberal assumptions that the poor and the illiterate are not likely to demand or even know their rights have been forcefully challenged by a body of scholarship in anthropology and political science that expands the field of the political and resurrects the subaltern as a political actor. These accounts point to the everyday life as a site of transgressions, and investigate mundane practices through which the subaltern enact their agency, quietly seek material entitlements, and manoeuvre to escape control and regulations. While such a focus is important, it tends to overlook various ways of subaltern being, speaking or becoming, which are shifting and evolving, and are not necessarily circumscribed by the everyday or the local. This thesis, with ethnographic sensitivity-and against binary categories of mainstream political science- draws attention to the continuum of ways through which the marginalised deal with their multi-layered subordination. More precisely, drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted with the Bedouin villagers in the Naqab, and the akdham slum dwellers in Sana'a, the thesis sheds light on a multiplicity of sites and scales of subaltern struggles, as well as the connections between them and the different logics that drive them. The distinction between what I call the logics of practice and articulation marks roughly the boundaries between the non-political and the political, but also points to the potentiality of the political rooted in the ordinary. Shifting away from the notion of subaltern struggles as place-bounded and parochial, the thesis argues that they need to be understood in relation to the transnational context within which they are embedded. By scrutinizing subaltern efforts to be known, intelligible and supported by global audiences, the thesis uncovers processes through which both the Bedouin and the akhdam become recognized as bearers of specific traits, on which basis their claims are justified. The questions posed here are as much about the particular groups under study, as they are about larger issues of knowledge production and the workings of the global human rights regime.
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Sharma, Upma. "A study of reproductive health behaviour of slum dweller women." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/5506.
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Rebolo, João Manuel Teles. "O realojamento do Bairro Chinês em Marvila: participação e autoconstrução como processo – o caso da PRODAC (1970-1974)." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/13723.
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Este estudo analisa o realojamento do Bairro Chinês em Marvila, uma intervenção da PRODAC (Associação de Produtividade na Autoconstrução), no início da década de 1970. Foi uma operação urbana de grandes dimensões, apostando na Participação dos moradores e na utilização da Autoconstrução.
No Capítulo 1, é feito um resumo histórico da prática da Autoconstrução ocorrida em diversas regiões do globo, com ênfase em épocas de crise ou de reconstrução. São apresentadas algumas teorias relevantes sobre Autoconstrução, defendidas nas décadas de 1970-80. É igualmente abordado o tema da Participação dos moradores, relativamente a programas habitacionais e a práticas diversificadas de Arquitectura.
No Capítulo 2, são referidos os realojamentos realizados a partir dos anos 1940, nos Bairros Sociais Provisórios, construídos em Lisboa. São referidas, também, algumas das práticas de Autoconstrução realizadas em Portugal, nas décadas de 1950-60, pelo Património dos Pobres e pela MONAC, ambas organizações católicas.
No Capítulo 3, é abordada, em múltiplas vertentes, a intervenção da PRODAC no realojamento do Bairro Chinês, em Marvila, entre 1970 e 1974. O tema da Participação dos moradores e da Autoconstrução é central neste realojamento, sendo descriminados os fatores históricos mais relevantes, as opções tecnológicas, o modelo de gestão da PRODAC e as parcerias estabelecidas com diversas entidades.
Assim, o nosso objecto de estudo é procurar entender como se insere a Arquitetura nesta intervenção de habitação social em Lisboa, na perspectiva da Autoconstrução participada.This study analyses the rehousing of the Bairro Chinês squatter in Marvila, an intervention of the PRODAC Movement (Associação de Produtividade na Autoconstrução) in the early seventies. It was an important urban intervention based on the resident’s participation and self-help construction. In Chapter 1, we include a historic resume of self-help construction in different regions of the Globe, with an emphasis on periods of crisis or reconstruction. We present some relevant theories about self-help construction, defined in the seventies and the eighties. We also examine the concept of participation of the residents, in relation to relocation programs and diversified practices in Architecture. In Chapter 2, we mention the relocation projects implemented since the forties in Temporary Social Housing in Lisbon. We also mention some Self-Help practices in Portugal in the fifties and the sixties, the Património dos Pobres and MONAC, both catholic movements. In Chapter 3, we develop several approaches to the intervention of PRODAC in the relocation of the Bairro Chinês squatter in Marvila, between 1970 and 1974. The topic of the Participation and Self-Help is essential in this relocation, in which we highlight the most relevant historical facts, the technological choices, the management model of PRODAC and the partnerships. Therefore, our study object is trying to understand where Architecture stands in this context of social housing intervention, in the Self-Help participation perspective.