Heritage, Crafting Communities and Urban Transformation: Durga Puja Festival, Kolkata
This book emphasises the need to empower marginalised communities to contribute to decision-making processes within policy realms.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Milton
Taylor & Francis Group
2023
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City Series
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| Further subjects: | B
Durgā-pūjā (Hindu festival)-India
B City planning and redevelopment law-India B Heritage tourism-Economic aspects |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781032376479 |
| Summary: | This book emphasises the need to empower marginalised communities to contribute to decision-making processes within policy realms. Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Durga Puja, Kumartuli, and Kolkata -- Festival, religion, culture, and politics -- Colonial Calcutta's Durga Puja -- Barowari brought inclusivity -- Cultural heritage, informality, and idol-crafting practice -- Structure of the book -- 2 Crafts and practitioners -- Idol-crafting practice and sustainability -- Kumbhakar caste relates to pottery -- The caste-based potters' para -- Interwoven communities of practice -- Emerging actors and shifts -- 3 The spaces of production -- The neighbourhood -- Streetscapes, alleys, riverfront -- The conventional workshop-residence -- The 'factory-shed' workshop -- 4 Seasonal adaptations and everyday negotiations -- The preparation phase -- Adaptations, accommodations, and negotiations -- Infrastructural disrepair and hopelessness -- Social cohesion, coordination, and competition -- Will Kumartuli continue to thrive? -- 5 Complexities -- The redevelopment plan -- Reaction and resistance to the KMDA plan -- Tenure and ownership: realities -- Informality in the heritage -- 6 The emerging and diverging spaces of production -- Kumartuli on a regular day -- Changing spaces: repurposed workshop -- Agency and new typologies -- Appropriation and socio-spatial relations -- Spatial flexibility and reparation in a Kolkata basti -- 7 Kumartuli's future? -- Kumartuli's present -- Reparations and public services -- Contributions and implications of this research -- Recommendations -- Personal reflections -- Methodological appendix: research strategies -- Glossary of Bengali words -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 1000983803 |