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Victims or Survivors: A View of Resilience from Slum-Dwellers Perspective (A Case Of Pedda-Jalaripeta, India).

Andavarapu, Deepika
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468511965

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2016, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Regional Development Planning.
Policy makers and academicians often view slums as disorderly, substandard, corrupt, makeshift, impoverished, crime-ridden eyesores and so forth. However, conceptualizing slums as resilient enclaves challenges this common perception of slum dwellers as passive disaster victims and instead, shifts focus onto their ingenuity and adaptability to overcome external circumstances. Resilience comprises three dimensions: coping, adaptive, and transformative capacities. The first two dimensions, coping and adaptive capacities, refer to the slum dwellers’ ability to bounce back to their original state in the aftermath of a disaster, often relying on their informal social networks. Transformative capacity, in contrast, refers to the slum dwellers’ ability to improve or upgrade the physical (e.g., water, sewer or roads) and social (e.g., education, empowerment or job skills) infrastructure of their community in the aftermath of a disaster. This dissertation explores the transformative capacity of the Pedda Jalaripeta (from here on referred as PJ) slum in Visakhapatnam, India through empirical ethnographic research. This study analyzes how the residents of PJ collaborated with both the government and non-governmental organizations over the past six decades to improve the physical and social infrastructure of the slum overcoming many external circumstances Resilience, primarily the transformative capacity of the PJ residents, is presented in this dissertation through three perspectives: temporal, spatial and social. The temporal perspective narrates the disasters that the PJ faced over the past three decades. The spatial perspective demonstrates `Why’ the PJ residents fight for their community as their turf. The social perspective attempts to understand the `How’ in resilience - how did the PJ residents with minimal education and monetary resources survive multiple disasters? While many studies considered urban slums as vulnerable (Davis 2006, World Bank, 2016; UN Habitat, 2010), this dissertation illustrates that slums can be resilient and survive multiple catastrophes if they engage and collaborate with external agencies.
Mahyar Arefi, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Erynn Casanova, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
David Edelman, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
177 p.
Urban Planning
Resilience; Slums; Transformative Resilience; Social Capital

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  • Andavarapu, D. (2016). Victims or Survivors: A View of Resilience from Slum-Dwellers Perspective (A Case Of Pedda-Jalaripeta, India). [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468511965

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  • Andavarapu, Deepika. Victims or Survivors: A View of Resilience from Slum-Dwellers Perspective (A Case Of Pedda-Jalaripeta, India). 2016. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468511965.

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  • Andavarapu, Deepika. "Victims or Survivors: A View of Resilience from Slum-Dwellers Perspective (A Case Of Pedda-Jalaripeta, India)." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468511965

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