Date de publication:
27 Avril 2015
Mots-clefs:
- urbanization
- small town
- parution
- India
- halshs
- IFP
- CSH
Publié ici :
27 Avril 2015Mis à jour le :
03 Juillet 2017Langue de publication:
- Anglais
Zone géographique:
- Asie
Selected Readings on Small Town Dynamics in India - online
Bhuvaneswari Raman, Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma, Rémi de Bercegol, Eric Denis, Marie-Hélène Zérah, Selected Readings on Small Town Dynamics in India, Institut Français de Pondichéry / Centre de Sciences Humaines, "Savoirs et Mondes Indiens" Working papers series n°7. SUBURBIN Papers Series n°2, 2015
This literature review aims at summarizing the state of knowledge related to small urbanised settlements. The significance of researching these localities can be inferred from the fact that a growing share of urban population lives in such agglomerations with a population above 10,000 and below 50,000 to 100,000 inhabitants. This fact is not limited to India and a large share of the urban population worldwide lives in small and medium cities, which are understudied.
The same dearth of research applies to the Indian context, as will be evident in this review, despite the importance of the resilience of an urban system comprising a large number of small towns and the diversity of these settlements in terms of their economic base and their social structure. This literature review is structured around five themes: A) the first section lays out issues related to estimating the magnitude and sources of demographic growth in order to infer the contribution of small towns to urban dynamics; B) the second section on Small Towns: Sources of Growth explores the economic processes supporting the expansion of small towns, and debates the dominant vision of the relationship between urbanization and growth, as explained by the New Economic Geography; C) the third section focuses on the transformation of small town economies and social structures while examining practices of entrepreneurship, circulation of labour, social mobility as well as caste and gender inequalities; D) the fourth section on Land and territorial transformations focuses on the relation between property and entrepreneurship; and E) the last section on Governance makes sense of the literature on decentralization, government schemes, governance and the political economy of small towns. This review constitutes one of the steps undertaken within the Subaltern Urbanization in India project (suburbin.hypotheses.org) to bring back to the fore the research on small towns.
Sommaire :
- Introduction: Aims / Key findings
- Section A - Contribution of small towns to the urbanization process and the urban structure: Magnitude and source of growth
- Section B - Growth of small towns: Influence of exogenous and endogenous factors and linkages
- Section C - Transformation of small town economies: Practices of entrepreneurship and circulation of labour
- Section D - Transformation of territories: Patterns and practices
- Section E - Governance of small towns
- Conclusion and gaps
Dernières actualités de l'IFRE
 Ifp offre d'emploi
Description synthétique du poste
|
 Ifp offre d'emploi
Description synthétique du poste
|
 Ifp
La présente enquête a été menée dans le cadre du projet d
|
 Ifp
L’Inde a connu en 2021 le plus grand mouvement social pay
|
 Ifp India
Trust and participation in social networks are inherently
|
 Ifp Pondicherry
This book presents a brief overview of Pondicherry's soci
|
 Ifp Caste
Recent debates on distributive justice have started to pr
|
 Ifp Caste
From colonial census administrators to social scientists,
|
 Ifp History of Śaivism
Edited by Deviprasad Mishra with the help of the late S.
|
Derniers contenus par mots-clefs
|
Ifp India
Trust and participation in social networks are inherently...
|
Ifp Caste
From colonial census administrators to social scientists,...
|
 Ifp ethics
Priya Ange, Jérôme Ballet, Aurélie Carimentrand &...
|
 Ifp India
In this bilingual (French/English) CD-ROM, we first show...
|
 Ifp governance
by Frédéric Landy with the collaboration of Thomas François...
|
 Ifp India
Le patronat en Inde : Contours sociologiques des acteurs et...
|
 CSH policy attention
[CSH-CPR Workshop] Gender and Public Transport in India:...
|
 IFRA - Nairobi Kenya
Urbanization and Street VendingReport prepared by Pierre...
|
 CSH Marriage
"Much Ado About Knotting"
Born into a society obsessed with...
|