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Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Divya Upadhyaya Joshi
Caroline Brassard Editors
Urban Spaces
and Gender in
Asia
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DivyaUpadhyaya Joshi Caroline Brassard
Human ResourceDevelopment Center AsiaResearch Institute
Kumaun University National University ofSingapore
Nainital, Uttarakhand, India Singapore, Singapore
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Acknowledgements
Therearemanypeoplewhohavemadethisbookpossibleandwhosehelpwe
would like to acknowledge. We are grateful to all the people who were
involved in the International Conference that led to this book. The Confer-
ence, held in November 2017 in New Delhi, was made possible due to the
funding from the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New
DelhiandUttarakhandStateCouncilforScienceandTechnology(UCOST),
Dehradun, India. At Kumaun University, Nainital, India, we thank its Vice
Chancellor, Prof. Dinesh Kumar Nauriyal, whose enthusiasm for the project
and mentoring remained crucial for its completion.
Weexpressourgratitudetoallourcolleagues,whohavegenerouslygiven
their time and incisive comments on the drafts. We thank Linda Lane,
Namrata Chindarkar, Tess Del Rosario, Yvonne Chen, Ame Berges, Robin
Bush, and Naomi Aoki and Pushpesh Pant for reviewing the chapters
included in this book.
Our sincere thanks go to all the editorial team members at Springer and
especially to Prof. R. B. Singh, the Co-Editor of the Sustainable Develop-
mentGoalsSeries,fortheirtrust,supportandencouragementthroughoutthis
journey.
Finally,wethankourfriendsandfamiliesforemotionalsustenanceinthis
venture, especially our children Ananya, Gabriel, Oliver and Tristan for
beingsoconsiderateandcaring,oftensacrificingtheirtimewithussothatwe
can pursue our academic work.
Divya Upadhyaya Joshi
Caroline Brassard
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Contents
1 Urban Spaces, Gender and Development Goals
in Asia .. .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 1
Divya Upadhyaya Joshi and Caroline Brassard
Part I Gender Perspectives on the Urban Labour Market
2 Protection or Discrimination? The Case of Nepal’s Policy
Banning Female Migrant Workers. .... .... .... ..... .... 17
Richa Shivakoti
3 Struggling for Survival in Urban Spaces: Women’s Paid
and Unpaid Work in Selected Indian Slums. .... ..... .... 35
Aasha Kapur Mehta and Sanjay Pratap
4 An Exploratory Study on “Urban-Ecological Adaptation”,
Gender Equality and Work–Life Balance in Japanese
Companies ... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 49
I. Yamaguchi
5 Starting Up a Business in ASEAN: A Gender
Perspective... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 65
Bui Thi Minh Tam and Paweena Leetrakun
Part II Social Inclusivity and the Role of Cities
6 A Flat of My Own: Singlehood and Rental Housing.... .... 95
Rashi Bhargava and Richa Chilana
7 Negotiating the Queer and the Politics of Sexualities
in Urban Spaces: Sanitized Spaces, Vocality, Display
and Visibility in Kolkata City. .... .... .... .... ..... .... 109
Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
8 Urban Informality, Gender and Exclusion in India .... .... 131
Akriti Bhatia and Divya Upadhyaya Joshi
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Part III Urban Spaces and Public Policy Challenges
9 Migration, Trafficking, Sex Work and Constrained
Choices: Gender and Sustainable Development
in Bangladesh. .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 147
Habiba Sultana
10 Malay Muslim Low-Income Households in Singapore:
Gender Ramifications and Policy Challenges. .... ..... .... 161
Caroline Brassard
11 Gender-Sensitive Approachesand Issues of Urban Climate
Changes: Benefits and Challenges . .... .... .... ..... .... 177
Reetu Sogani and K. R. Viswanathan
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Divya Upadhyaya Joshi is Associate Professor, University Grants Com-
mission- Human Resource Development Centre, Kumaun University,
Nainital, India.
She has a Masters in Political Science and specializes in Gender Studies
having earned her Ph.D. degree from Kumaun University on the Political
Socialization of Women in the Central Himalayas. She has presented and
publishedresearchpapers,completedresearchprojectsandeditedabookon
issues related to gender equity and women’s empowerment. She has
undertaken exploratory research relating to gender roles and equity in
marginalized mountain areas, having won a national award for her in the
CentralHimalayas.ShecoordinatestheWomen’sStudiesCentreatKumaun
University. e-mail: [email protected]
Caroline Brassard is currently a Visiting Scholar with the Asia Research
Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. She has been an
academic adviser at the Centre for Peace and Justice, BRAC University,
Dhaka, Bangladesh since 2017. Prior to that, she held various positions
including Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School
ofPublicPolicy(LKYSPP),attheNationalUniversityofSingapore,where
sheworkedfrom2002to2018.Herresearchfocusesondevelopmentpolicy
lessons from disasters in the Asia-Pacific and disaster governance in
urbanizing contexts. She is currently editing a book on “Social Justice,
Empowerment and Inclusivity in Asia” to be published in 2019. Her earlier
book “Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific”, edited with David
GilesandArnHowitt,waspublishedbySpringerin2015.Hercurrentwork
focuses on the challenges of coordinating poverty eradication and disaster
risk reduction in Bhutan, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam.
She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of London. e-mail:
[email protected]
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Contributors
Rashi Bhargava Department of Sociology, Maitreyi College, University of
Delhi, New Delhi, India
Akriti Bhatia Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics,
University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Caroline Brassard Asia Research Institute, Asian Urbanisms Cluster, and
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore,
Singapore, Singapore
Anup Shekhar Chakraborty Department of Political Science & Political
Studies, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Richa Chilana Department of English, Maitreyi College, University of
Delhi, New Delhi, India
Divya Upadhyaya Joshi University Grants Commission, Human Resource
Development Centre, Kumaun University, Nainital, India
PaweenaLeetrakunChiangRaiRajabhatUniversity,ChiangRai,Thailand
Aasha Kapur Mehta Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi,
India
Sanjay Pratap Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, India
RichaShivakotiResearchOfficer,CarletonUniversity,Ottawa,ON,Canada
Reetu Sogani CHINTAN International Trust, Ranikhet, Uttarakhand, India
HabibaSultanaDepartmentofAnthropology,JagannathUniversity,Dhaka,
Bangladesh;
UK, Schumacher Centre, Rugby, UK
Bui Thi Minh Tam Faculty of Economics, Srinakharinwirot University,
Bangkok, Thailand
K. R. Viswanathan International Climate Change Specialist, Practical
Action Consulting, New Delhi, India
I.YamaguchiSchoolofInformationandCommunication,MeijiUniversity,
Tokyo, Japan
