Description: Further DetailsTitle: Migrants and Machine PoliticsCondition: NewSubtitle: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and ResponsivenessISBN-10: 0691236097EAN: 9780691236094ISBN: 9780691236094Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/03/2023Description: How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanizationAs the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant slums as exhausted by dispossession, subdued by local dons, bought off by wily politicians, or polarized by ethnic appeals. Migrants and Machine Politics shows how slum residents in India routinely defy such portrayals, actively constructing and wielding political machine networks to demand important, albeit imperfect, representation and responsiveness within the country’s expanding cities.Drawing on years of pioneering fieldwork in India’s slums, including ethnographic observation, interviews, surveys, and experiments, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil reveal how migrants harness forces of political competition—as residents, voters, community leaders, and party workers—to sow unexpected seeds of accountability within city politics. This multifaceted agency provokes new questions about how political networks form during urbanization. In answering these questions, this book overturns longstanding assumptions about how political machines exploit the urban poor to stifle competition, foster ethnic favoritism, and entrench vote buying.By documenting how poor migrants actively shape urban politics in counterintuitive ways, Migrants and Machine Politics sheds new light on the political consequences of urbanization across India and the Global South.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Tariq Thachil, Adam Michael AuerbachGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Princeton Studies in Political BehaviorTopic: Social Sciences, Law & Politics, Business & FinanceRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Migrants and Machine Politics
Title: Migrants and Machine Politics
Subtitle: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness
ISBN-10: 0691236097
EAN: 9780691236094
ISBN: 9780691236094
Release Date: 01/03/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Business & Finance
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Migrants and Machine Politics : How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, Poverty & Homelessness, Economics / General, Political Process / Political Parties
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Adam Michael Auerbach, Tariq Thachil
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Series: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
