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In the Public's Interest: Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi

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Gautam Bhan is a well known LGBTQ rights activist in India as well as a researcher and a faculty member at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements with deep interest in urban housing. As the faculty member of IIHS, he works and teaches politics of poverty, inequality and development in Indian cities with a focus on housing, social security, governance and urban and planning theory. He is also the spokesman for LGBTQ rights and one of the petitioners in the legal battle to decriminalize homosexuality in India. He is the coordinator of Program for Working Professionals in Urban Development and co-anchors three major research projects on evictions, urban inclusion, slum up-gradation, and the relationships between poverty, inequality and urban violence.

Contents

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Education

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A visiting undergraduate scholar at Harvard University, Gautam Bhan completed his graduation from Amherst College with Political Economy and Development Studies in 2002. He then did his masters on Urban Studies from University of Chicago and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning from University of California, Berkeley.

Honors & Awards

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Fellow, Social Science Research Council 2009-10; Berkeley Fellow 2007-2012; Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley 2012.

Publication

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  • Bhan, G., Srinivas, S., and Watson, V. (2017, Forthcoming) Routledge companion to planning in the global south. London: Routledge.
  • Deb, A., & Bhan, G. (2016, Forthcoming). Indispensable yet inaccessible: the paradoxes of adequate housing in urban India. In India social development report 2016. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • Bhan, G. (2016). In the public’s interest: evictions, citizenship and inequality in contemporary Delhi. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
  • Revi, A., Jana, A., Malladi, T., Anand, G., Anand, S., Bazaz, A., . . . Shah, S. (2015). Urban India 2015: Evidence. Bangalore: Indian Institute for Human Settlements.
  • Bhan, G., & Jana, A. (2015). Reading spatial inequality in urban India. Economic & Political Weekly, 50(22), 49-54.
  • Bhan, G., Goswami, A., & Revi, A. (2014). The intent to reside: spatial illegality, inclusive planning and urban social security. In O. Mathur (Ed.), Inclusive urban planning: state of the urban poor report 2013 (pp. 83–94). New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • Bhan, G. (2014). Continuity amidst change: learning from Rajiv awas yojana. Yojana, 58, 64 – 67.
  • Bhan, G. (2014). Moving from giving back’ to engagement. Journal of Research Practice, 10(2), 1-4.
  • Bhan, G. (2014). The impoverishment of poverty: reflections on urban citizenship and inequality in contemporary Delhi. Environment and Urbanization, 26(2), 547-560.
  • Bhan, G. (2014). The real lives of urban fantasies. Environment & Urbanization, 26(1), 232-235.

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