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100			_a Ganga, Aarathi _949204
245			_aCitizenship at the Margins: Exploring Participation as ‘Right to the City’ in Vizhinjam, Kerala
260			_bSage, _c2019.
300			_aVol 4, Issue 2, 2019 : (77-93 p.).
520			_aThis article explores the nature of urban citizenship among fishers in Kerala, one of the state’s most marginalised communities, by analysing their participation in a centrally sponsored slum rehabilitation programme—Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY)—in Vizhinjam, Thiruvananthapuram. The ‘right to participate’ is considered an integral part of the ‘right to the city’, and the inability of the fishing community to participate in the decision-making processes of urban development programmes that directly affect their lives reveals the exclusionary nature of their citizenship. In a state that is renowned for its achievements in human development and governance, the fishing community continues to be marginalised and lack collective power to influence policies. Participatory meetings in such contexts become tokenistic, and their transformative capacity is undermined. The inefficiency of participatory meetings organised under RAY also stems from the powerlessness of local governments to alter urban programmes designed by national governments.
650			_aRight to the city, _949205
650			_a urban citizenship, _949206
650			_aparticipation, _948999
650			_aurban governance, _949038
650			_a fishers, _949207
650			_aslum rehabilitation, _949208
650			_aurban politics _949010
773	0		_012416 _916476 _dLondon: Sage Publication Ltd, 2019. _tUrbanisation / _x24557471
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/2455747119892347
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