Dissertations / Theses: 'Bangalore'

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Vagale, Uday Kumar. "Bangalore-Future Trends In Public Open Space Usage. Case Study: Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bangalore." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9941.

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From 'Pensioners Paradise' or 'Garden City' to 'Silicon Valley' or 'Garbage City', the city of Bangalore has come a long way. One of the interesting aspects of life in Bangalore is 'public life' and the use of public space. However the quality of public spaces in Bangalore has deteriorated over the years due to several reasons. Rapid development, increase in traffic, encroachment into public spaces and lack of management of public spaces have all contributed to this. The CBD (Central Business District) area, especially M.G. Road has evolved as the de-facto centre of Bangalore. Hence a space that used to cater to a city of 2 million in 1980 has to now cater to a city of 5 million. This has led to congestion on M.G. Road, especially along the sidewalk, where people jostle each other to get to their destinations and one can no longer take a leisure stroll or promenade in comfort. Although the sidewalk has been historically an important public space, it is now slowly being reduced to the function of circulation. The increase in population has also altered the demands on public spaces in Bangalore. The cosmopolitan image that Bangalore has acquired has resulted in the creation of many eclectic spaces such as pubs, open-air cafÃ©s, and food courts. The common man is being left out of this semi-public realm because of affordability, causing a social rift. Also with pressure increasing on the streets it is becoming difficult to cater to these needs in an appropriate manner. The public realm is slowly diminishing and the semi-private realm is filling the void. This calls for a re-evaluation of the role of a street and how it is functioning in Bangalore and exploration of new spatial types of public spaces, which can be introduced in the public realm. Public spaces should reconcile these differences rather than aggravate them. With pressure on land due to increasing population and density a contest for space is inevitable. What is important is to reconcile these differences and evolve a strategy through which public space can be returned to the people irrespective or religion, caste, creed, class or political alignment for the common good without compromising on aesthetics. At the same time the poor and deprived need to feel a sense of belonging and ownership in the city. Public space is one of the few mediums for such expressions and hence the duty of the city to provide it. Also the absence of iconic public spaces as landmarks has resulted in Bangalore remaining an imageless city, a former middle-class city with no apparent vernacular. Today Bangalore has no real city centre to represent its image and cater to its citizens. The elements of a city centre already exist as observed by Rao & Tewari; it is a matter of giving it structure and a sense of place. Bangalore today confronts several problems with respect to its public spaces ' lack of an imageable city centre; contest for urban and public space based on class and caste; privatisation / corporatisation of public space. To curtail violent and disruptive demonstration of ideas and aspirations by various interest groups especially those of the suppressed, the city needs a democratic, civic space in the perceived/evolving heart of the city ' M.G. Road. Such a space would attempt to bridge the zoning of Bangalore and the lack of imageability of the city; providing its citizens a space to speak their minds, to protest, to celebrate, to mourn, to recreate and most importantly to unite. The thesis document comprises three sections. The first section deals with theory pertaining to the design of public spaces that provides a basis to evaluate public spaces in Bangalore, and draw conclusions, which can be applied in the design project. It draws from public space theory pertaining to the issues identified earlier. The second section provides a brief history of urbanisation of Bangalore. It describes the use of public space from colonial times to the present and draws conclusions for future development of public spaces in Bangalore. The last section applies and tests the conclusions arrived at in the previous two chapters through a design project for a site on Mahatma Gandhi Road. The design process and final product comprises the third section.
Master of Landscape Architecture

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Thekkiam, Sruthi Sridhar. "PINK LOTUS MOTORBOAT: BANGALORE STORIES." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174880961.

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Varrel, Aurélie. ""Back to Bangalore" : étude géographique de la migration de retour des indiens très qualifiés à Bangalore (Inde)." Poitiers, 2008. http://theses.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/theses/2008/Varrel-Aurelie/2008-Varrel-Aurelie-These.pdf.

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Le tryptique ville - mondialisation - migration est mis en perspective dans la thèse à partir d'un poste d'observation situé au Sud : la ville de Bangalore, la cinquième ville de l'Inde par la population, largement présentée comme la « Silicon Valley indienne ». L'objet d'analyse est le phénomène de migration de retour de migrants indiens très qualifiés, salariés du secteur des hautes et des nouvelles technologies, revenant majoritairement des Etats-Unis à Bangalore. La recherche articule géographie des migrations et géographie urbaine dans une démarche compréhensive qui permet d'appréhender les pratiques de l'espace et les significations qui leur sont attachées, ainsi que les échelles collective et individuelle du fait migratoire. Elle interroge ainsi une notion et une catégorie importantes de la géographie des migrations : la migration de retour et les migrants très qualifiés. La thèse montre que le retour s'insère dans les évolutions de la dynamique technopolitaine qui caractérise Bangalore. Elle souligne la pertinence de la notion de migration de retour comme catégorie analytique du projet migratoire des acteurs, comme processus et comme moment de trajectoires migratoires de plus en plus transnationales. Par ailleurs le rôle joué par les migrants dans la fabrique métropolitaine et technopolitaine est mis en évidence par l'étude de leurs pratiques résidentielles, en particulier pour le développement d'un urbanisme d'enclave. Cultivant l'entre-deux, les migrants de retour renforcent le rôle de Bangalore en tant que pôle du champ migratoire indien
The articulation between globalization, migration and urbanization is addressed from a vantage point located in a developing country : the city of Bangalore, fifth city by population of India, which is known also as the ''Silicon Valley of India''. The selected way to assess it has been to focus on the reverse migration flow of high-skilled Indian migrants, coming back from the USA mainly, specifically to Bangalore. This research stands at the intersection of migration studies and urban studies. It proposes a comprehensive approach in order to comprehend the spatial practices as well as their meanings, at both the individual scale and the collective scale. It addresses two important notions in migration studies : return migration and high(ly) skilled migration. This reverse brain drain contributes to the technopolitan dynamic which a salient feature of Bangalore. This study reinforces the relevance of the concept of return migration by analyzing the return migration as a project, as an open-ended-process and a stage in the realm of increasingly transnational life patterns. The thesis addresses also the way these ''returnees'' reinsert themselves in the urban fabric, contributing to some typical trends of the metropolis and technopolis-in-the making such as the development of enclave urbanism, by studying their residential practices. The ''returnees'' remain in an in-between situation that strengthhen Bangalore as a pole in the migration field of Indians

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Varrel, Aurélie Ma Mung Emmanuel. ""Back to Bangalore" étude géographique de la migration de retour des indiens très qualifiés à Bangalore (Inde) /." [Poitiers] : [I-médias], 2008. http://theses.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/theses/2008/Varrel-Aurelie/2008-Varrel-Aurelie-These.pdf.

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Björkman, Carolina, and Jasmine Falk. "Utvecklingen av ett hållbart avfallshanteringssystem i Bangalore." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för bygg- energi- och miljöteknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-22804.

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Indien är ett land som växer ekonomiskt samtidigt som problem med hur avfall ska tas omhand fortfarande är i utvecklingsfasen. Studiens fokus ligger på hur avfallshanteringen sköts i staden Bangalore. Utifrån ett svenskt perspektiv på avfallshantering med insamling och behandling har Bangalore undersökts och brister lokaliserats. Förbättringsförslag presenteras utifrån de brister som framkommit och ett fokus har lagts på om svenska avfallslösningar skulle kunna implementeras i Bangalore. Svensk avfallshantering utgör en bra grund för ett funktionellt avfallshanteringssystem och har därför använts som referens vid jämförelser och förbättringsförslag. I Sverige används källsortering vid sortering av avfall för att få en högre grad av återvinningsbarhet. De behandlingssteg som finns ger energi på olika sätt och ytterst lite avfall läggs på deponier. Ett ständigt arbete utförs utifrån avfallstrappans steg. I Bangalore är situationen omvänd och det avfall som lyckas samlas in hamnar till största delen på deponier eller inofficiella dumpningsplatser runt om i staden. I Sverige sköts avfallshanteringen av den formella sektorn medan den i Bangalore till stor del utförs av en informell sektor där privata personer samlar in skräp. En litteraturstudie har gett insikt i vilka problem utvecklingsländer kan ha gällande avfallshantering och även vilka faktorer som spelar in vid verkställandet av ett fungerande system. I projektet gjordes en observationsstudie på plats i Bangalore under två veckors tid. Utifrån observationsstudien kunde mycket av tidigare information kring hur avfallshanteringen går till granskas mer kritiskt och ett mer verklighetstroget resultat framföras. Det saknas ett fungerande system som är heltäckande för hela Bangalore, vilket gör att mycket avfall hamnar direkt på gator eller på övergivna tomter. Detta i sin tur ger upphov till dålig lukt för invånarna och en ohygienisk miljö. De insamlingssystem som finns att tillgå för allmänheten var i övergripande fall otillräckliga. Tre olika faktorer identifierades som hindrar att avfallshanteringen ska kunna fungera. Dessa var politik, den formella och informella sektorn, samt insamlingssystem av avfall. Ett stort hinder inom Bangalore är det bristande politiska intresset att få till en fungerande avfallshantering. Inga stora aktioner eller krafttag tas mot de växande mängder avfall som produceras. Inte heller sker en bra integration mellan de formella avfallsinsamlarna som utgörs av avfallstransporter och avfallsinsamlare versusinofficiella avfallsinsamlare. Då Bangalore saknar ett formellt insamlingssystem ges inte rätta förutsättningar för befolkningen att kunna gå någonstans med sitt avfall. Detta leder till en ökad okunskap om hur avfall bör sorteras för att kunna behandlas på ett lämpligt sätt där föredragsvis energi kan utvinnas. Ett tydligare insamlingssystem behövs om Bangalore ska kunna nå en hållbar utveckling och bromsa de eskalerande miljöproblem som de ställs inför. Någon form av behandling av avfall krävs för att minska mängden avfall som hamnar direkt på deponering. Genom att minska trycket på deponierna finns en potential för att få en hållbar stad.
India is a country that is growing economically while the problems with the waste andit´s treatment are still in the development phase. The study focuses on how the waste ishandled in the city of Bangalore. From a Swedish point of view the waste collection andtreatment have been investigated Bangalore and shortcomings identified. Suggestionsfor improvements are presented from the lack of the waste management and the focushas been on how Swedish solutions could be implemented in Bangalore. In Sweden the sorting of waste at a household level is managed from different fractionsin containers and therefore the waste has a higher degree of recyclability. Theprocessing steps that are providing energy are sufficient leading to very little wastebeing added to landfills. A constant work is done based on the waste hierarchy. InBangalore, the situation is the reverse and the waste collected mostly ends up inlandfills or unofficial dumping sites around the city. In Sweden, waste is handled by theformal sector, while Bangalore is largely dependent on an informal sector whereindividuals collect waste. A literature study has provided insight into the difficulties developing countries mayhave to face regarding waste management and the factors that come into play in theexecution of a functioning system. Within the project, an observational study was madein Bangalore for two weeks. Based on the observational study a lot of previousinformation on how waste is handled could be examined more critically and morerealistic conclusions drawn. The lack of a functioning system for waste collectionthroughout Bangalore results in a lot of waste ending up directly on the streets or onabandoned plots. This in turn gives rise to odors for residents and an unhygienicenvironment. The collection available to the public was in most cases insufficient. Three factors were identified that prevent the waste management from functioning.These were politics, the formal and informal sector, as well as the practical collectionof waste. A major obstacle in Bangalore is the lack of political interest of functioningwaste management. No major action is taken against the growing amounts of wasteproduced. A good integration between the formal waste collectors consisting of thetransport of waste and waste collectors versus informal waste collectors is missing.Bangalore also lacks formal collection systems and the people are not given the rightconditions to be able to go anywhere to get rid of their waste. This leads to increasedignorance about how waste should be sorted for processing appropriately and whereenergy can be recovered. A clearer collection is needed if Bangalore is to achieve sustainable development and tocurb the escalating environmental problems they face. Some form of waste treatment isneeded to reduce the pressure on the city landfill. By doing this there is a change for thecity to be sustainable and green.

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Ancín, Itziar. "The Kabir Project. Bangalore and Mumbai (India)." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23290.

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The Kabir Project (K.P.) was born in Bangalore, India, in 2002, after the Gujarat pogrom, which occurred in the same year. In the context of increasing divisions in Indian society, defined by religion, social class, caste and gender, this research explores how this initiative, through live concerts and documentary films, spreads the folk music traditions of the 15th century mystic poet Kabir along with his messages of unity and understanding between confronted identity groups. This study presents the context of violence between Muslims and Hindus since the Indian Partition and the reasons for gendered violence in the conflict. It focuses also on the connections between globalization and minorities’ prosecution in liberal democracies; on the colonial roots and socioeconomic reasons which led to the Gujarat massacre in 2002; and the social role of the mystic as bridging cultural and religious differences. Through two complementary methods: in-depth interviews to audiences and organizers at the K. P. festivals in Bangalore and survey questionnaires distributed to the Kabir Festival Mumbai audiences, this study tries to answer the following questions: What is the potential for social change of the K. P. in the world-views of today's Indian citizens? Are the messages presented by films and folk music capable of generating positive attitudes towards dialogue between confronted identity categories? In which ways?The research reveals the success of the K. P. to challenge audiences’ minds through communication for development events, whose objectives are reached by spreading Kabir values through artistic forms, and by creating shared spaces between confronted identity sections. Festivals in rural areas help to diminish the distance between those antagonized communities. In addition, urban festivals also generate positive attitudes in elites towards dialogue and coexistence, since that is the social profile of the audience.

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Michael, Nisha Jacintha. "Educators’ Attitudes towards Inclusive Education in Bangalore, India." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367160.

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Advocacy of inclusive education is a key part of the United Nations’ broader effort to encourage countries across the world to commit to the provision of 'education for all'. This United Nations educational policy is directed towards promoting social justice and equality and erasing the invisible and tangible barriers that segregate the marginalized sections of society from quality education. The Government of India has endorsed this broad objective and recognized the urgent need to provide equal opportunities to all learners. This commitment becomes complicated when considered within a political and social context that has simultaneously endorsed the significance of education for social development while limiting access to education for various groups, including students with disabilities. In this complex situation teachers’ attitudes towards the implementation of the inclusive education have a major impact upon how students with disabilities actually experience education. Yet relatively little is known about Indian teachers’ attitudes to inclusive education principles and practices and/or how they believe they are able to take up the United Nations’ and the government of India’s apparent commitment to meeting the needs of students with disabilities. In response to this gap in literature and policy, the aim of this mixed method study was to investigate pre-service teachers’ and in-service teachers’ attitudes towards the implementation of inclusive education in the city of Bangalore within Karnataka State, India. The project involved the use of a 30 items questionnaire followed by semi-structured interviews with participants from several groups: pre-service teachers with a special education focus; pre-service, generalist teachers; in-service teachers working in general education settings; and in-service teachers working in special education. This data set was analysed by drawing upon the Theory of Planned Behavior advocated by Ajzen (1991). This analysis highlighted teachers’ beliefs and how these shape their attitudes towards, and actions regarding, inclusive education.
Thesis (Professional Doctorate)
Doctor of Education (EdD)
School of Education and Professional Studies
Arts, Education and Law
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Revanasiddappa, K. "Collapse Behaviour Of Red Soils Of Bangalore District." Thesis, Indian Institute of Science, 2000. https://etd.iisc.ac.in/handle/2005/220.

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Collapse phenomenon is exhibited by two types of residual soils. The first category of collapsing residual soils is believed to be transported soils that have undergone post-depositional pedogenesis. The second category of collapsing residual soils is highly weathered and leached soils formed by in-situ weathering of parent rock. Residual red soils occur in Bangalore District of Karnataka State. Physical and chemical weathering of the gneissic parent rock formed the residual soils of Bangalore District. The red soils of Bangalore District are generally moderate to very highly porous (porosity range 35-50%). These soils are also unsaturated owing to presence of alternate wet and dry seasons and low ground water table. Moderately to highly porous, unsaturated red soils occur in Pernambuco State of Brazil. These residual soils formed by weathering of gneissic rock significantly collapse on wetting under external pressures. Kaolinite is predominant clay mineral in the red soils of Bangalore and Pernambuco Districts. Similarities exist in the mode of soil formation, clay mineralogy, porosity and degree of saturation (Sr) values of the red soils from Pernambuco State, Brazil, and Bangalore District. Given the collapsible nature of red soils from Pernambuco State, Brazil, the red soils from Bangalore District also deserve to be examined for their potential to collapse in the compacted and undisturbed conditions. The roles of initial dry density, compaction water content, clay content and flooding pressure (the external stress at which a laboratory specimen is inundated is termed as flooding pressure in this thesis) in determining the collapse behaviour of compacted soils are well recognized. However, the influences of above parameters on the collapse behaviour of compacted red soil specimens from Bangalore District are lacking. Such studies are essential as they help to identify the critical compaction parameters (dry density and water content), soil composition, and applied stress level that needs to be controlled by the fill designer in order to minimize wetting-induced collapse. The importance of matric suction in the collapse behaviour of unsaturated soils is well recognized. Yet, the influence of matric suction in the collapse behaviour of compacted soils has only been indirectly examined by varying the compaction water content/degree of saturation of the soil specimens. The climate of Bangalore District is characterized by alternate wet and dry seasons which affects the soil microstructure and the matric suction. Both these parameters have a significant influence on collapse behaviour of unsaturated soils. Cyclic wetting and drying is expected to have a significant bearing on the collapse behaviour of residual soils and is therefore examined. The red soil deposits of Bangalore District are important from foundation engineering view point as they are subjected to structural loading. Owing to the presence of alternate wet and dry seasons and low ground water table, red soil deposits of Bangalore District are more often than not unsaturated. These foundation soils would however be susceptible to increase in moisture content from causes such as infiltration of rainwater, leakage of pipes or watering of lawns and plants. Given the porous and unsaturated nature of undisturbed red soils from Bangalore district, their collapsible nature deserves to be examined for reliable estimation of foundation settlements. To achieve the above objectives, experiments are performed that study: 1.The influence of variations in compaction dry density, initial water content and matric suction, clay content and flooding pressure on the collapse behaviour of a representative red soil sample from Bangalore District. 2.The influence of repeated wetting and drying on the collapse behaviour of compacted red soil specimens. 3.The collapsible nature of undisturbed red soil samples from different locations in Bangalore District. The organization of this thesis is as follows: After the first introductory chapter, a detailed review of literature highlighting the need to study the collapse behaviour of unsaturated red soils of Bangalore District, Karnataka in the compacted and undisturbed states comprises Chapter 2. Chapter 3 presents a detailed experimental programme of the study. Details of representative and undisturbed red soil samples from Bangalore District, Karnataka State, India were used in the study are provided. Determination of collapse potential of compacted and undisturbed soil specimens using conventional oedometer is discussed. Determination of matric suction of compacted and undisturbed specimens by ASTM Filter paper method and pore size distributions by mercury intrusion porosimetry is detailed. Methods to perform cyclic wetting and drying of compacted red soil specimens in modified oedometer assemblies is detailed. These experiments are performed to examine the influence of cyclic wetting and drying on the collapse behaviour of compacted red soil specimens. Chapter 4 examines the collapse behaviour of a compacted red soil from Bangalore District. The influence of variations in compaction dry density, initial water content and matric suction, flooding pressure and clay content on the collapse behaviour of the representative red soil from Bangalore District are examined. Besides measuring the initial matric suction of the compacted red soil specimens, mercury intrusion porosimetry was performed on selected compacted red soil specimens. Experimental results showed that compacted red soils from Bangalore District exhibited tendency to swell and collapse at the experimental range of densities and water contents. Red soil specimens compacted to relative compactions > 90 % at water contents below OMC swelled at flooding pressures lower than 200 kPa. Red soil specimens compacted to relative compactions < 90 % at water contents below OMC significantly collapsed at flooding pressures larger than 200 kPa. Hence maintenance of the design water content during construction of compacted red soil fills is essential to minimize wetting induced volume changes. Experiments showed that the relative abundance of coarse pores (60 to 6 μm, pore radius) were mainly affected on increasing the relative compaction of the specimens from 84 % (dry density = 1.49 Mg/m3) to 100 % (dry density = 1.77 Mg/m3). The relative abundance of the coarse and fine (0.01 to 0.002 μm) pores were both affected on increasing the compaction water content from 10.6 to 26.4 %. These variations in pore size distributions provided better insight into the variations of collapse potential with variations in compaction parameters. ASTM filter paper method showed that for the selected compaction conditions the initial matric suction of the compacted red soil specimens varied between 60 and 10,000 kPa. Further, variations in degree of saturation at a constant relative compaction or variations in relative compaction at a constant degree of soil saturation notably affected the matric suction of the compacted soil specimens. It was also inferred that a clay soil with a higher liquid limit is characterized by a higher matric suction at a given water content. Variations in clay content affected the collapse potentials of soil specimens compacted to dry densities of 1.49 and 1.66 Mg/m3. These specimens exhibited maximum collapse at about 26 % clay content. It is suggested that greater destabilization of inter-particle contacts caused by loss of matric suction on flooding was primarily responsible for the soil specimen containing the critical clay content of 26 % to exhibit maximum collapse potential. Increase in initial dry density, initial water content, clay content of the soil specimen and flooding pressure increased the time-duration of collapse of the compacted soil specimens. The time-duration of collapse was observed to range between 3 and 100 minutes for the tested specimens. Chapter 5 examines the influence of alternate wetting and drying on the collapse behaviour of compacted red soil specimens of Bangalore District. The compacted specimens were subjected to alternate wetting and drying cycles at surcharge pressures of 6.25 and 50 kPa in modified oedometer assemblies. Studies were also performed to examine whether the initial placement conditions have any bearing on the collapse behaviour of red soil specimens subjected to four cycles of wetting and drying. Mercury intrusion porosimetry was performed on a few desiccated red soil specimens. Experimental results showed that cyclic wetting and drying caused the desiccated specimens to exhibit similar or lower swell and collapse potentials than the compacted specimens. Such a behaviour resulted despite the desiccated specimens (specimens subjected to four cycles of wetting and drying are termed as desiccated specimens) possessing similar void ratios but much lower water contents than the compacted specimens. The restraining influence of the desiccation bonds and alteration of soil structure is considered responsible for the reduced swell and collapse tendencies of the desiccated specimens. The desiccation bonds imparted higher apparent preconsolidation pressures to the desiccated specimens. The initial compaction conditions also have a strong bearing on the collapse potentials of the desiccated specimens. Compacted red soil specimens subjected to cyclic wetting and drying under a higher surcharge pressure of 50 kPa exhibited larger swell potentials and lower collapse potentials than specimens desiccated at 6.25 kPa. Besides their lower void ratios, the presence of stronger desiccation bonds also contributed to their lower collapse potentials. The presence of stronger desiccation bonds in specimens desiccated under higher surcharge pressure was indicated by their higher apparent preconsolidation pressures. Chapter 6 examines the collapse behaviour of undisturbed red soil specimens from three locations in Bangalore District at a range of flooding pressures. Studies on the variations in initial water content and effect of remoulding on the collapse behaviour of the undisturbed specimens is supplemented by measuring the initial matric suction and performing mercury intrusion porosimetry experiments. Experimental results showed that based on their collapse potential at 200 kPa, the undisturbed red soils of Bangalore District classified as troublesome to moderately troublesome foundation soils. The bonded structure of the undisturbed red soil specimens imparted them higher apparent preconsolidation pressures and lower swell/collapse potentials than their remoulded counterparts. Variations in in-situ dry density, degree of saturation and relative distribution of pore sizes affected the matric suction and collapse potentials of the undisturbed specimens Chapter 7 summarizes the conclusions of this thesis.

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Revanasiddappa, K. "Collapse Behaviour Of Red Soils Of Bangalore District." Thesis, Indian Institute of Science, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2005/220.

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Collapse phenomenon is exhibited by two types of residual soils. The first category of collapsing residual soils is believed to be transported soils that have undergone post-depositional pedogenesis. The second category of collapsing residual soils is highly weathered and leached soils formed by in-situ weathering of parent rock. Residual red soils occur in Bangalore District of Karnataka State. Physical and chemical weathering of the gneissic parent rock formed the residual soils of Bangalore District. The red soils of Bangalore District are generally moderate to very highly porous (porosity range 35-50%). These soils are also unsaturated owing to presence of alternate wet and dry seasons and low ground water table. Moderately to highly porous, unsaturated red soils occur in Pernambuco State of Brazil. These residual soils formed by weathering of gneissic rock significantly collapse on wetting under external pressures. Kaolinite is predominant clay mineral in the red soils of Bangalore and Pernambuco Districts. Similarities exist in the mode of soil formation, clay mineralogy, porosity and degree of saturation (Sr) values of the red soils from Pernambuco State, Brazil, and Bangalore District. Given the collapsible nature of red soils from Pernambuco State, Brazil, the red soils from Bangalore District also deserve to be examined for their potential to collapse in the compacted and undisturbed conditions. The roles of initial dry density, compaction water content, clay content and flooding pressure (the external stress at which a laboratory specimen is inundated is termed as flooding pressure in this thesis) in determining the collapse behaviour of compacted soils are well recognized. However, the influences of above parameters on the collapse behaviour of compacted red soil specimens from Bangalore District are lacking. Such studies are essential as they help to identify the critical compaction parameters (dry density and water content), soil composition, and applied stress level that needs to be controlled by the fill designer in order to minimize wetting-induced collapse. The importance of matric suction in the collapse behaviour of unsaturated soils is well recognized. Yet, the influence of matric suction in the collapse behaviour of compacted soils has only been indirectly examined by varying the compaction water content/degree of saturation of the soil specimens. The climate of Bangalore District is characterized by alternate wet and dry seasons which affects the soil microstructure and the matric suction. Both these parameters have a significant influence on collapse behaviour of unsaturated soils. Cyclic wetting and drying is expected to have a significant bearing on the collapse behaviour of residual soils and is therefore examined. The red soil deposits of Bangalore District are important from foundation engineering view point as they are subjected to structural loading. Owing to the presence of alternate wet and dry seasons and low ground water table, red soil deposits of Bangalore District are more often than not unsaturated. These foundation soils would however be susceptible to increase in moisture content from causes such as infiltration of rainwater, leakage of pipes or watering of lawns and plants. Given the porous and unsaturated nature of undisturbed red soils from Bangalore district, their collapsible nature deserves to be examined for reliable estimation of foundation settlements. To achieve the above objectives, experiments are performed that study: 1.The influence of variations in compaction dry density, initial water content and matric suction, clay content and flooding pressure on the collapse behaviour of a representative red soil sample from Bangalore District. 2.The influence of repeated wetting and drying on the collapse behaviour of compacted red soil specimens. 3.The collapsible nature of undisturbed red soil samples from different locations in Bangalore District. The organization of this thesis is as follows: After the first introductory chapter, a detailed review of literature highlighting the need to study the collapse behaviour of unsaturated red soils of Bangalore District, Karnataka in the compacted and undisturbed states comprises Chapter 2. Chapter 3 presents a detailed experimental programme of the study. Details of representative and undisturbed red soil samples from Bangalore District, Karnataka State, India were used in the study are provided. Determination of collapse potential of compacted and undisturbed soil specimens using conventional oedometer is discussed. Determination of matric suction of compacted and undisturbed specimens by ASTM Filter paper method and pore size distributions by mercury intrusion porosimetry is detailed. Methods to perform cyclic wetting and drying of compacted red soil specimens in modified oedometer assemblies is detailed. These experiments are performed to examine the influence of cyclic wetting and drying on the collapse behaviour of compacted red soil specimens. Chapter 4 examines the collapse behaviour of a compacted red soil from Bangalore District. The influence of variations in compaction dry density, initial water content and matric suction, flooding pressure and clay content on the collapse behaviour of the representative red soil from Bangalore District are examined. Besides measuring the initial matric suction of the compacted red soil specimens, mercury intrusion porosimetry was performed on selected compacted red soil specimens. Experimental results showed that compacted red soils from Bangalore District exhibited tendency to swell and collapse at the experimental range of densities and water contents. Red soil specimens compacted to relative compactions > 90 % at water contents below OMC swelled at flooding pressures lower than 200 kPa. Red soil specimens compacted to relative compactions < 90 % at water contents below OMC significantly collapsed at flooding pressures larger than 200 kPa. Hence maintenance of the design water content during construction of compacted red soil fills is essential to minimize wetting induced volume changes. Experiments showed that the relative abundance of coarse pores (60 to 6 μm, pore radius) were mainly affected on increasing the relative compaction of the specimens from 84 % (dry density = 1.49 Mg/m3) to 100 % (dry density = 1.77 Mg/m3). The relative abundance of the coarse and fine (0.01 to 0.002 μm) pores were both affected on increasing the compaction water content from 10.6 to 26.4 %. These variations in pore size distributions provided better insight into the variations of collapse potential with variations in compaction parameters. ASTM filter paper method showed that for the selected compaction conditions the initial matric suction of the compacted red soil specimens varied between 60 and 10,000 kPa. Further, variations in degree of saturation at a constant relative compaction or variations in relative compaction at a constant degree of soil saturation notably affected the matric suction of the compacted soil specimens. It was also inferred that a clay soil with a higher liquid limit is characterized by a higher matric suction at a given water content. Variations in clay content affected the collapse potentials of soil specimens compacted to dry densities of 1.49 and 1.66 Mg/m3. These specimens exhibited maximum collapse at about 26 % clay content. It is suggested that greater destabilization of inter-particle contacts caused by loss of matric suction on flooding was primarily responsible for the soil specimen containing the critical clay content of 26 % to exhibit maximum collapse potential. Increase in initial dry density, initial water content, clay content of the soil specimen and flooding pressure increased the time-duration of collapse of the compacted soil specimens. The time-duration of collapse was observed to range between 3 and 100 minutes for the tested specimens. Chapter 5 examines the influence of alternate wetting and drying on the collapse behaviour of compacted red soil specimens of Bangalore District. The compacted specimens were subjected to alternate wetting and drying cycles at surcharge pressures of 6.25 and 50 kPa in modified oedometer assemblies. Studies were also performed to examine whether the initial placement conditions have any bearing on the collapse behaviour of red soil specimens subjected to four cycles of wetting and drying. Mercury intrusion porosimetry was performed on a few desiccated red soil specimens. Experimental results showed that cyclic wetting and drying caused the desiccated specimens to exhibit similar or lower swell and collapse potentials than the compacted specimens. Such a behaviour resulted despite the desiccated specimens (specimens subjected to four cycles of wetting and drying are termed as desiccated specimens) possessing similar void ratios but much lower water contents than the compacted specimens. The restraining influence of the desiccation bonds and alteration of soil structure is considered responsible for the reduced swell and collapse tendencies of the desiccated specimens. The desiccation bonds imparted higher apparent preconsolidation pressures to the desiccated specimens. The initial compaction conditions also have a strong bearing on the collapse potentials of the desiccated specimens. Compacted red soil specimens subjected to cyclic wetting and drying under a higher surcharge pressure of 50 kPa exhibited larger swell potentials and lower collapse potentials than specimens desiccated at 6.25 kPa. Besides their lower void ratios, the presence of stronger desiccation bonds also contributed to their lower collapse potentials. The presence of stronger desiccation bonds in specimens desiccated under higher surcharge pressure was indicated by their higher apparent preconsolidation pressures. Chapter 6 examines the collapse behaviour of undisturbed red soil specimens from three locations in Bangalore District at a range of flooding pressures. Studies on the variations in initial water content and effect of remoulding on the collapse behaviour of the undisturbed specimens is supplemented by measuring the initial matric suction and performing mercury intrusion porosimetry experiments. Experimental results showed that based on their collapse potential at 200 kPa, the undisturbed red soils of Bangalore District classified as troublesome to moderately troublesome foundation soils. The bonded structure of the undisturbed red soil specimens imparted them higher apparent preconsolidation pressures and lower swell/collapse potentials than their remoulded counterparts. Variations in in-situ dry density, degree of saturation and relative distribution of pore sizes affected the matric suction and collapse potentials of the undisturbed specimens Chapter 7 summarizes the conclusions of this thesis.

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Kalra, Rajrani. "High Technology and Intra-Urban Transformations: A Case Study of Bengaluru,India." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1195648204.

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Grönwall, Jenny T. "Access to water : Rights, obligations and the Bangalore situation." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema vatten i natur och samhälle, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11686.

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The city of Bangalore in southern India is undergoing rapid urbanisation and administrative transition. Its growth puts pressure on the available water sources – being mainly the disputed inter-State River Cauvery and the hard-rock aquifers – with ensuing problems of access. These aspects affect how rights to and over water are fulfilled and perceived. Competition for drinking water is intensifying worldwide and over a billion people are estimated to lack safe access to it. Urbanisation and other demographic trends, along with globalisation and climate change, are adding to the changing patterns of water scarcity. The role of rights in attaining and improving access to water is undoubtedly great and often referred to in the general water management debate. The notion is analysed here as having three interlinked dimensions: the right to water as a human right; water in terms of property rights; and water rights. Law treats these rights, and thereby water, differently. For instance, groundwater has traditionally been thought of as invisible and unpredictable. Partly for this reason, it is still left largely unregulated in many parts of the world. In India, according to the proverb, ‘the landlord is a water lord’. This has effects on the claim for water as a human right. The dissertation shows that we cannot talk in terms of water and rights until we are aware of how complex rights apply simultaneously, and how they correspond to obligations.

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Bhuvaneswari, Raman. "Street traders, place and politics : the case of Bangalore." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2010. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2764/.

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The significant proportion of the poor in Indian cities who depend on street trade for their livelihoods are increasingly threatened by eviction as a result of urban development programmes implemented since the mid 1990s. Research on urban street traders (in particular) and the urban informal economy (in general) in the developing world has primarily focussed on aspects of its social and economic organisation and have treated street traders as a homogenous group with a uniform ability to claim places. In contrast, this research explores the differential intracity spatial and political processes underpinning street trade, with particular reference to their ability to occupy and defend their trading places, in the city of Bangalore in Karnataka, India. It focuses on the everyday practices and relationships of street traders and explores the role of informal networks that give rise to such differences, through a qualitative research design and a grounded theoretical strategy. It illustrates the ways in which processes specific to a locale affect street traders' ability to occupy and defend places - an aspect that is overlooked in the theories about the politics of street trade. It argues that the territorial embeddedness of street traders is critical in so far as it affects their ability to draw on a range of networks. This thesis makes a contribution to knowledge in two ways: by providing an empirical understanding of the intra-city differences in how street traders occupy and defend places from where they can trade; and at a theoretical level on the role of urban place and the politics of street trade. It concludes with a discussion of the implications of the research findings for policies relating to urban poverty and governance of urban space.

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Chigateri, Shraddha. "Uncovering injustice : towards a Dalit feminist politics in Bangalore." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2004. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2625/.

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This research is interested in unpacking the injustice that dalit groups, men and women, identify as structuring their lives, as well as the strategies deployed to resist, disrupt and subvert the violence. It is also interested in elucidating the tensions in accounting for caste relations, as well as a gendered conception of dalit relations in Bangalore. The dalit women question has received increasing scholarly as well as political attention in the last couple of decades. However, there is very little literature that seeks to locate the conditions of dalit women’s lives in the context of urban spaces. Understanding gendered caste relations in the space of the city has been no easy process. This is not only because of the conceptual and historical disjunction between caste and class, but also because of the disjunction between caste and conceptions of the space of the city. The over-determination of the centrality of ‘the village’ in the literature on caste does not easily allow for a conception of caste relations in the city. Moreover, the space of the city as a space of freedom in the dalit imagination makes it difficult to locate a critical conception of urban spaces for a dalit politics. In relation to a gendered dalit politics, the need for an internal critique of the patriarchy of dalit politics whilst over-determined, has not produced a robust critique of intra-caste relations. This is also because in demarcating the specific conditions of dalit women’s lives, a gendered dalit politics tends to get caught up in a ‘politics of difference’. Based on primary research with three dalit groups in the city of Bangalore and secondary material, this thesis locates the politics around the naming of identity and the ways in which ‘dalit’ identity has been avowed, disavowed, contested and sometimes not confronted at all, by the groups, and what this means for a dalit politics as well as a dalit feminist politics in Bangalore. It also analyses the politics of naming the injustice of untouchability and the strategies deployed by the respondents to contend with the violence. It provides a gendered account of untouchability and an analysis of untouchability in relation to the city.

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Jayadeva, Sazana. "Overcoming the English handicap : seeking English in Bangalore, India." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708998.

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Grönwall, Jenny T. "Access to water : rights, obligations and the Bangalore situation /." Linköping : Department of Water and Environmental Studies, Linköping University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11686.

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Lema, Rasmus. "Outsourcing and the Rise of Innovative Software Services in Bangalore." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506929.

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Over the last three decades, outsourcing has had a big influence on the international division of labour. It is clear that it has been a major reason for the enormous build-up of production capabilities in the developing world, in particular in the export platforms of Asia. However, we do not know whether the outsourcing of production and services from OECD to developing countries has triggered the transition from production to innovation capability or not. In particular, it is not clear whether and how outsourcing contributes to the formation of advanced innovative capability. This is the question addressed in this thesis. It examines this question by focusing on the global software-outsourcing industry and the supply platform in Bangalore (India), one of the most prominent cases of latecomer development in the global economy. In order to examine this question, the thesis suggests new categories for assessing innovativeness in this complex sector. It shows that there is considerable scope for innovation as an incremental extension of routine outsourcing. A segment of Bangalore software suppliers has entered a new phase of building innovative capability. This capability is not restricted to process and organisational capability but extends to problem-framing innovative capability. This challenges the widely held opinion that only lower-order activities are outsourced and that relationships are unlikely to evolve beyond certain threshold levels because they do not provide proximity to tacit knowledge and domain expertise. This finding goes against the view that Bangalore's software industry has not progressed beyond producing to customers' specifications. More generally, it challenges the view that advanced innovation capabilities are beyond suppliers in global value chains. While the documentation of advanced innovation capability is an important contribution in itself, the main contribution lies in showing how capability development occurs in global value chains. 'Supplier learning' is often assumed, but it remains a 'black box' in most of the literature on outsourcing. The thesis shows how outsourced activities focused on labour-intensive 'production activities' can (over time) provide a stepping-stone for acquiring high-order innovative capabilities. It examines the factors that explain this transition on the supply side and the demand side. On the supply side, the study focuses on learning events as the main unit of analysis and examines how outsourcing influences the formation of new innovative capability. The thesis emphasises that while outsourcing creates new spaces, the exploitation of these spaces is not automatic; it shows how projects undertaken by suppliers have mobilised resources - ideas, investment and knowledge - to capture new opportunities in global chains. This creation of capability at the project level is important, but new capability is only fully realised via firm-level competence leveraging across different buyers and business lines. The main determinants of the acquisition of new capabilities are global linkages and firm internal strategies and initiatives. Local linkages play only a minor role. This poses important questions for the debate on local clusters and innovation systems. On the demand side, the thesis compares three software buyer segments and shows that practices differ between these groups of buyers. It also shows that buyers' outsourcing strategies change over time and that the 'space' for innovation by suppliers has increased. Critical to this analysis is the distribution between 'integrated' and 'standalone' innovation activities. They key finding is that the greatest advances in acquiring innovation capability are made in the integrated activities where knowledge use and knowledge creation are tightly connected. Other studies have come to more pessimistic findings because they have tended to concentrate on standalone innovation activities. The two-pronged approach using supply and demand side informants enables the triangulation of findings. It also makes it possible to examine how demand-side and supply-side dynamics interact. The thesis shows how 'innovation-push' by specialising buyers and 'innovation-pull' by increasingly capable suppliers reinforce each other. Most studies tend to focus on only one side; but the key is to see them in conjunction. The thesis suggests that their co-evolution changes not only the scale of outsourcing but also its contents. It indicates that a qualitative shift in the global division of labour is underway.

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Clay, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Margarette). "Community-led participatory budgeting in Bangalore : learning from successful cases." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40132.

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Urban India is rapidly growing, and in cities like Bangalore, the dramatic changes have both positive and negative impacts. Citizens express concern about the capacity and credibility of local government and corporate sector in leading local development. In contrast to rural India where the 73rd amendment helped spur citizen participation in local decision-making, in urban India there have been limited channels for citizens to participate in governance outside of the electoral process. In 2001, a civil society organization, Janaagraha, launched a participatory budgeting campaign aimed at improving local governance through engaging citizens in local infrastructure planning. The campaign resulted in citizens' budget priorities being approved in over twenty percent of the city's wards. Large-scale participatory budgeting has traditionally been an initiative of ruling parties using the apparatus of the state. As a civil society initiative, the participants faced the dual challenges of mobilizing citizens to produce good plans and convincing local government that their plans were legitimate. This thesis aims to answer two questions. First, what were the attributes of the associations and political and spatial factors of the communities that were successful in a 2001 participatory budgeting campaign in Bangalore?
(cont.) Identifying these success factors can provide tools to other communities in the previously uncharted territory of local participatory budgeting in urban India. Second, did the campaign strengthen or sidestep local democracy? This question looks within "success" to uncover the impact on existing political relationships and shed light on the effect of the campaign beyond infrastructure. To answer these questions, case study-based qualitative analysis in six Bangalore communities was conducted. Based on these cases, factors for ward-level success included limited political history or entrenchment, both for the elected official and physical ward in addition to committed leadership that had prior engagement with local government. The participation in the campaign was not representative of the population at large and did not result in pro-poor outcomes that have been the hallmark of other participatory budgeting initiatives. However, it strengthened representative democracy and institutionalized collective action instead of individual clientelist relationships. These answers suggest that citizens can successfully initiate participatory planning and budgeting campaigns, and they are not exclusively the domain of ruling state parties.
(cont.) The thesis concludes with recommendations for community-based organizations that want better neighborhood-level outcomes and a more significant role in decision-making. As community participation is institutionalized in India, understanding how citizen's groups can be effective both internally and in partnership with local government may contribute to improved urban governance and outcomes.
by Elizabeth M. Clay.
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Rajashekar, Anirudh V. "Do private water tankers in Bangalore exhibit "mafia-like" behavior?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99090.

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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2015.
"June 2015." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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While there is an increasing acceptance in academic literature about the importance of informal water delivery in cities around the developing world, public opinion is often divided. Many citizens see informal water vendors as businesses controlled by extortionary "mafias" and call for government regulation. This thesis explores whether government regulation is justified in the case of Bangalore, India where water issues have become increasingly pressing and informal water vendors, also known as the "water mafia," have grown in number and in influence. In particular, this thesis will explore whether private tankers display any form of anti-competitive behavior by addressing two questions: 1) Do private water tankers exhibit monopoly power, and 2) Do private water tanker prices vary depending on the characteristics of the customers they serve? Evidence collected in July-August 2014 and January 2015 indicates that tankers do not operate in an anti-competitive manner and that government intervention is not justified on these grounds. However, tankers do contribute to declining groundwater levels and government intervention on these grounds ought to be explored.
by Anirudh Rajashekar.
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Sieger, Pascal. "Imaginer une autre vie ensemble : ethnographie des communautés d'arts contemporains à Bangalore." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0066.

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Bangalore, principalement connue pour ses industries de pointe, est aussi l’une des villes les plus actives dans le domaine des arts contemporains en Inde. La cité dans laquelle de nombreux artistes se sont installés à partir des années 1990 est le berceau de nombreuses expériences originales dans le monde de l’art, tant d’un point de vue esthétique que social et politique. Basée sur une ethnographie auprès de communautés d’artistes dans le domaine des arts performatifs, visuels et de la littérature, cette recherche examine non seulement les formes d’organisation de leurs espaces de création, mais aussi les valeurs et les idéaux qui sont élaborés par des artistes ayant pour objectif le changement social ou la résistance politique. La première partie de cette thèse analyse la construction du récit qui fait de Bangalore une ville du futur, une métropole cosmopolite, symbole de la modernité et de la créativité. La seconde partie examine les espaces dédiés aux arts contemporains ainsi que les motivations de leurs fondateurs. Elle met à jour l’imagination politique et les valeurs humanistes qui sont à l’origine du désir de créer des communautés. Le cosmopolitisme apparaît ainsi comme un idéal des résidences d’artistes observées, où l’expérience sociale et politique est aussi importante que le projet artistique. La dernière partie s’intéresse aux situations de coexistence des artistes en résidence. À l’aide de concepts provenant autant des sciences sociales que de l’art, elle analyse la mise en oeuvre d’un « vivre ensemble » autre. Les frontières entre l’art et l’anthropologie s’estompent et une passerelle est jetée entre les deux disciplines invitant à une anthropologie poétique ou une poétique de l’anthropologie
Mainly known for its high-tech industries, Bangalore is also one of the most vibrant cities of India in the field of contemporary arts. The town where many artists have settled since the 1990s is the cradle of many original experiences in the world of art, from an aesthetic as well as social and political point of view. Based on an ethnography of artists' communities in the performing arts, visual arts and literature, this research examines not only the forms of organization of their creative spaces, but also the values and ideals that are developed by artists whose goal is social change or political resistance.The first part of this thesis analyses the construction of the narrative making from Bangalore the city of the future, a cosmopolitan metropolis, symbol of modernity and creativity. The second part examines spaces dedicated to contemporary arts as well as the motivations of their founders. It shows the political imagination and humanistic values that are behind the desire to create communities. Cosmopolitanism thus appears as an ideal of the residences of artists observed, where the social and political experience is as important as the artistic project. The last part focuses on situations of coexistence of artists in residence. Using concepts from both social sciences and arts, it analyses the implementation of a different way of "living together”. The boundaries between art and anthropology fade and a bridge is build between the two disciplines inviting to a poetic anthropology or poetics of anthropology

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Rao, Mala R. "Builders in the private sector : a case study of Bangalore, India /." This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02162010-020019/.

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Srinivas, S. "Urban development and the information technology industry : a study of Bangalore, India." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1339570/.

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The focus of the study is the city of Bangalore, in India, which has over the years become a centre for high technology industries, and in the mid-i 990s was home to the largest number of Information Technology (IT) firms in India. This has earned it the title of the 'Silicon Valley of India'. The city's comparative advantage in the IT industry in India emanates from various factors, of which favourable government policy, high quality work force, and the availability of research laboratories are some of its crucial determinants. This research aims to understand the reasons for Bangalore's success in attracting both foreign and domestic IT industries (especially between the mid-i 980s, when the Indian economy showed the initial signs of opening up, and the mid-I 990s), and investigates the extent to which the city can continue to be the most preferred location for IT industry in the country. Three research hypotheses have been tested in this research study. The first is directed towards the global IT industry, and contends that the global IT industry's interest in India goes beyond mere price considerations alone. The second proposes that the success of Bangalore in attracting the IT industries is due to a synergy of factors, which include favourable government policies, availability of skilled professionals, and local presence of research institutes and laboratories. The third hypothesis is guided towards the industry-institution linkage, and argues that there exists a strong link between the IT industry and the research laboratories in Bangalore, which has helped underpin growth in the local IT industry. The empirical analysis was conducted at tm, levels. One at the national level of policy making, and another at the city level. The research is based on both secondary sources of data and primary data collection. The study relied on two types of field surveys, a firm-level survey and a policy makers survey. An understanding of the competitiveness of Bangalore is carried out using a set of indicators which include inter ella level of telecommunications infrastructure, government policies, availability of industrial/office space, skilled labour and specialised services. The study finds that initially the main reason for the industrial growth in Bangalore was to be found in the strong industrial tradition of the region, dating back to the earlier part of the twentieth century and later, by government owned electronics and telecommunication industries that were founded in the city immediately after the country's independence (in 1947). Electronics industries continued to base themselves during the 1 960s and through the I 980s in the city. However, when the Indian economic policy was hberalised from the mid-1980s and more perceptibly after 1991, it was the lnfomiation Technology industries that began to establish themselves in Bangalore primarily to tap the available professional skills, and to make use of the city's existing base as a prominent centre for high technology industries. The research also found that there are strong links between the research institutes and laboratories and the private IT companies in Bangalore especially in R&D related activities. While many of the interviewed companies felt that Bangalore would continue to be the preferred location for the IT industry in the country, they do not rule out the possibility that an impending infrastructure crisis in the city will undermine its competitiveness.

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Sundaresan, Jayaraj. "Urban planning in vernacular governance land use planning and violations in Bangalore." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/979/.

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Using a relational state-society framework, this research examines the relationship between land use violations and the urban planning process. This thesis seeks to answer how and why land use violations in the non-poor neighbourhoods of Bangalore are produced, sustained and contested in spite of the elaborate planning, implementation and enforcement mechanisms present in Bangalore. Land use violations are identified as a key geographic site to empirically examine power and politics in urban planning practice in Bangalore. Critiquing the simplified representations often used to explain informality and illegality in the cities of the developing south as deviation, implementation failure and corruption; I propose that violations in Bangalore are an outcome of the planning practice rather than a deviation. In the process, I highlight how particular planning institutional systems operate when located in specific socio-political and governance contexts where vernacular networks of association transform the ‘governmentalised’ state into one that is amenable to specific interests through forging various forms of alliances. Providing evidence from ethnography of planning and violation networks in operation, this thesis argues that planning practice in Bangalore is inhabited by a variety of public and private interest networks. These associational networks, I argue, capture planning power, and prevent the possibility of a planning authority. Various case studies of plan violation, planning for violation, neighbourhood activism along with planning practice narratives, documents, and court cases form the extensive data set analysed in this thesis.

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Mandhan, Sneha. "Designing Indian streets as social public spaces : contextual design and planning in Bangalore." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90209.

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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2014.
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Streets in India have traditionally been the public spaces around which social life has revolved. They constitute the urban public realm where people congregate, celebrate and interact. The hypothesis that forms the basis of this thesis is that there is a need to understand and design these urban streets as living corridors through which one perceives and understands the city, and the places where one has daily social encounters. Using Bangalore as a case study, this thesis analyzes spatial and social forces that shape street experience and culture at the scale of the city, the locality, and the street itself. By performing a reconnaissance study and an analysis of the street patterns in fifteen localities within the city, along with a detailed spatial analysis and interpretation of four different types of streets, I shed new light on the social life of different types of streets, and suggest ways in which the stimuli for these social lives can be understood and used to formulate design guidelines for streets in Indian cities that are currently undergoing similar transitions in their development. Through this process, l propose a method to identify urban typologies that relate to the physical and social conditions that occupy the city, along with a set of criteria that can be used to assess, plan and design streets that are more contextual in nature.
by Sneha Mandhan.
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Jalal, Jennifer. "Voice, responsiveness and collaboration : democratic decentralisation and service delivery in two Indian cities." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391240.

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This thesis explores state-civil society relations with respect to urban services in the context of democratic decentralisation. These issues are analysed through a comparative case study of approaches to improved services in the Indian cities of Bangalore and Calcutta. Three main areas of focus in the thesis are a) relationships between citizens' voice and local government responsiveness; b) the implications of collaboration and partnership in urban service delivery; and c) the impact of broader socio-political factors on relations between service users and service providers. At the national level, legislation attempting to revitalise local government through democratic decentralisation has had a range of consequences for urban service provision. These consequences are examined through three paths towards improving service provision. The first, led by service users, is through traditional modes of political engagement and direct involvement in local community action groups. The second path, led by the local government service providers is through internal reforms adopted to boost responsiveness. The third path is led by the collaborative efforts of service users and service providers. The consequences of national legislative attempts at decentralisation have been markedly different in the two cities. Comparing the experience of approaches to improved service delivery in each, the thesis isolates the impact of local socio-political factors on municipal local governance. Demographic characteristics, the nature of political and administrative leadership, the character of local government institutions and the status of civil society, all prove to be important determinants of the quality of service delivery. Neither Bangalore nor Calcutta have enjoyed dramatic improvements in urban services as a direct result of democratic decentralisation. The thesis argues, however, that the decentralisation process has created an environment more conducive for dialogue between service users and providers: in which users have the space to express their voice, and state actors are encouraged to listen, acknowledge and respond.

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Asser, Elaine. "The rise of a service class culture in India : the software industry in Bangalore." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343341.

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Nisbett, Nicholas Christopher. "Knowledge, identity, place and (cyber)space : growing up male and middle class in Bangalore." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413893.

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Cook, Mitchell J. "Information technology governance and local public financial management reform : the case of Bangalore, India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115706.

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Thesis: Ph. D. in Urban and Regional Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2018.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-235).
Decentralization policy in India has coalesced in recent years around interrelated concerns over the transparency of local government financial management and reporting systems and the capacity of urban local bodies to implement modern performance budgeting and accrual accounting structures. This dissertation examines the relationship between these policy concerns in the case of Bangalore and looks deeply into the role of information technology providers in advocating for greater local government financial transparency and accountability through financial management information system projects. Utilizing the concept of legitimacy games I find that mechanisms to support coordination in project implementation are subject to partially predictable but ultimately uncontrollable contingent interactions of norms, values, and structural arrangements that surround government financial management information systems. The latter are largely unstable over time given frequent changes to administrative personnel and the broader authorizing environment. Consequently, coordination within information technology project implementation spurs competition in legitimacy games between information technology subcontractors and systems. Under such conditions, forms of collective action around political accountability in urban governance spur a double movement of information democratization and information closure in entrepreneurial issue networks. As a result, the extent of effective local government financial transparency becomes increasingly dependent on the internal characteristics and relative power of information gatekeepers. The findings of the case study contribute to new knowledge on the relationship between information technology and local public financial management procedures and practices. The notion of legitimacy games draws stark contrast to conventional assumptions surrounding competition in public sector outsourcing arrangements, namely that it is driven by the desire for larger contracts so as to maximize profits or that it bids down prices in government outsourcing. The case illustrates how behavioral incentives to link financial management information systems to public transparency and accountability mechanisms emerge in highly localized confrontations not as a concerted response to national policy. The real effect of such technologies on local state capacity has been limited in the case of Bangalore. In order to achieve more transformational impact, policymakers, public managers, and technology providers must carefully consider how to handle large volumes of financial information corresponding to irregular transactions.
by Mitchell J. Cook.
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Capilouto, Emily G. "GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND CATEGORIES OF RISK: PHYSICIAN VIEWS OF CERVICAL CANCER IN BANGALORE, INDIA." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/anthro_etds/32.

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India has one of the highest rates of cervical cancer morbidity and mortality globally. Despite this, there are no national or state-wide screening efforts for cervical cancer and its prevention in India. In an effort to understand the magnitude of cervical cancer in Bangalore, India, this research draws upon data collected in hospital contexts over a month-long period to explore the ways in which physician attitudes contribute to understandings of cervical cancer and its prevention in the growing urban context of Bangalore.

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Leeuwen, J. A. G. Gerwin van. "Fully Indian - authentically Christian : a study of the first fifteen years of the NBCLC (1967-1982), Bangalore, India, in the light of the theology of its founder D. S. Amalorpavadass /." Kampen : Uitgeversmaatschappij J.H. Kok, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35537632h.

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Teklemariam, Mekdes. "Cross-Cultural Management: : In case of Germans and Indians working at BOSCH Ltd., Bangalore, India." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för ekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35128.

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Aim: This study investigates what cultural difference exists between India and Germany and how cross-cultural management is addressed in the German company BOSCH in India. Methodology: A qualitative method is used in this research study. The Study is conducted by assessing different kinds of primary and secondary data. The questionnaire was the main source of primary data. 18 Indian employees and 2 German managers that work in the German BOSCH company located in Bangalore, India have filled out the Questionnaire. Few interviews via Skype have been conducted for further clarification. The secondary sources used were company websites, archives, previous studies on similar subject matter, and country profiles of Germany and India. Result & Conclusions: Through interviews with the Indian and German employees and going over previously written literature on Culture,Cultural dimensions,Cross Cultural management and Cross cultural team, analyzing the empirical findings with the literature reviews,the author of this study have come to the conclusion that there is a siginfican cultural diffrence between India and Germany. And a tailored Cross-cultural management must be designed to address the cultural difference that are observed. By doing so BOSCH can achive retaining of employees, manage frustration of German managers and accelerate innovation. Suggestions for Future Research: Business are being done globally and remote working is becoming a trend. Managing a Cross cultural team working remotely can be challenging. There is a gap in studies about how culture affects people’s communication while working remotely and how it affects performance. Such a study can be helpful by providing insight on how Cross-cultural team working remotely should be managed. Keywords: Culture, Cross-cultural management, Cultural dimensions, Individuality, Cross-cultural teams

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Narayana, Jayashree. "Violations of land use and building regulations : evidence from a case study in Bangalore, India /." Thesis, This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06112009-063833/.

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Angeli, Federica <1980&gt. "Knowledge Flows and Networks: the Interplay between Local and Global Linkages within Bangalore IT Cluster." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2009. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/1505/1/Angeli_Federica_Tesi.pdf.

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This doctoral work gains deeper insight into the dynamics of knowledge flows within and across clusters, unfolding their features, directions and strategic implications. Alliances, networks and personnel mobility are acknowledged as the three main channels of inter-firm knowledge flows, thus offering three heterogeneous measures to analyze the phenomenon. The interplay between the three channels and the richness of available research methods, has allowed for the elaboration of three different papers and perspectives. The common empirical setting is the IT cluster in Bangalore, for its distinguished features as a high-tech cluster and for its steady yearly two-digit growth around the service-based business model. The first paper deploys both a firm-level and a tie-level analysis, exploring the cases of 4 domestic companies and of 2 MNCs active the cluster, according to a cluster-based perspective. The distinction between business-domain knowledge and technical knowledge emerges from the qualitative evidence, further confirmed by quantitative analyses at tie-level. At firm-level, the specialization degree seems to be influencing the kind of knowledge shared, while at tie-level both the frequency of interaction and the governance mode prove to determine differences in the distribution of knowledge flows. The second paper zooms out and considers the inter-firm networks; particularly focusing on the role of cluster boundary, internal and external networks are analyzed, in their size, long-term orientation and exploration degree. The research method is purely qualitative and allows for the observation of the evolving strategic role of internal network: from exploitation-based to exploration-based. Moreover, a causal pattern is emphasized, linking the evolution and features of the external network to the evolution and features of internal network. The final paper addresses the softer and more micro-level side of knowledge flows: personnel mobility. A social capital perspective is here developed, which considers both employees’ acquisition and employees’ loss as building inter-firm ties, thus enhancing company’s overall social capital. Negative binomial regression analyses at dyad-level test the significant impact of cluster affiliation (cluster firms vs non-cluster firms), industry affiliation (IT firms vs non-IT fims) and foreign affiliation (MNCs vs domestic firms) in shaping the uneven distribution of personnel mobility, and thus of knowledge flows, among companies.

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Angeli, Federica <1980&gt. "Knowledge Flows and Networks: the Interplay between Local and Global Linkages within Bangalore IT Cluster." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2009. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/1505/.

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This doctoral work gains deeper insight into the dynamics of knowledge flows within and across clusters, unfolding their features, directions and strategic implications. Alliances, networks and personnel mobility are acknowledged as the three main channels of inter-firm knowledge flows, thus offering three heterogeneous measures to analyze the phenomenon. The interplay between the three channels and the richness of available research methods, has allowed for the elaboration of three different papers and perspectives. The common empirical setting is the IT cluster in Bangalore, for its distinguished features as a high-tech cluster and for its steady yearly two-digit growth around the service-based business model. The first paper deploys both a firm-level and a tie-level analysis, exploring the cases of 4 domestic companies and of 2 MNCs active the cluster, according to a cluster-based perspective. The distinction between business-domain knowledge and technical knowledge emerges from the qualitative evidence, further confirmed by quantitative analyses at tie-level. At firm-level, the specialization degree seems to be influencing the kind of knowledge shared, while at tie-level both the frequency of interaction and the governance mode prove to determine differences in the distribution of knowledge flows. The second paper zooms out and considers the inter-firm networks; particularly focusing on the role of cluster boundary, internal and external networks are analyzed, in their size, long-term orientation and exploration degree. The research method is purely qualitative and allows for the observation of the evolving strategic role of internal network: from exploitation-based to exploration-based. Moreover, a causal pattern is emphasized, linking the evolution and features of the external network to the evolution and features of internal network. The final paper addresses the softer and more micro-level side of knowledge flows: personnel mobility. A social capital perspective is here developed, which considers both employees’ acquisition and employees’ loss as building inter-firm ties, thus enhancing company’s overall social capital. Negative binomial regression analyses at dyad-level test the significant impact of cluster affiliation (cluster firms vs non-cluster firms), industry affiliation (IT firms vs non-IT fims) and foreign affiliation (MNCs vs domestic firms) in shaping the uneven distribution of personnel mobility, and thus of knowledge flows, among companies.

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Connors, Genevieve. "Watering the slums : how a utility and its street-level bureaucrats connected the poor in Bangalore." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42262.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2007.
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This dissertation is about how urban water utilities behave and what makes them interested in serving the poor. The infrastructure literature tends to treat public service agencies as monolithic entities and to ignore the great diversity of tasks and behavior patterns within them. As a consequence, common explanations for why utilities fail poor people tend to focus on attributes of the external environment in which utilities sit and not on the potential to elicit interest from within. This research corrects for this bias by applying a "street-level bureaucracy" approach to a study of a large urban water utility. The aim is to quash the notion so common in the water literature of a unified agency operating on the supply side and to rekindle an interest in the actions of workers. To do this, I examine the case of the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) and its contrasting outcomes within the same case. Over a five year period from 2000 to 2005, the utility revised its operational policies to accommodate the legal and financial realities of slums and connected 5,000 households or five percent of the slum population to the water network. Although the BWSSB demonstrated an unusual commitment to the poor, its efforts were not an unmitigated success. Progress was slow and staff failed to connect households to the network in many of the slums targeted. This dissertation digs deep inside the utility to explain these contrasting outcomes holding the city, the agency, and the sector efficiency constant. I find that while external pressures were necessary to prompt a business-as-usual utility to take action in slums, variation in outcome can be explained by the different facets of engineering life in BWSSB service stations and the different kinds of relationships forged between frontline staff and slum dwellers.
(cont.) Specifically, a "willingness to supply" by engineers and the attainment of neighborhood deals were necessary conditions for a successful program outcome. This dissertation shows how these two conditions were met and highlights the critical role of the utility's Social Development Unit on both counts. It also shows how, in the process, certain kinds of conflict and resistance to reform had surprisingly positive effects. The main policy implications are that incentives must be aligned within utilities to elicit engineer buy-in and that well-staffed social development units are necessary to diffuse a new slum program to utility employees, to broker deals with slum dwellers, and to harness the benefits of resistance.
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Rouanet, Hortense. "Quand les grands promoteurs immobiliers fabriquent la ville en Inde : regards croisés sur Bangalore et Chennai." Thesis, Paris Est, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PESC1187/document.

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La thèse s'intéresse à la place encore méconnue des promoteurs immobiliers privés dans la fabrication des espaces urbains en Inde, en prenant pour terrain de recherche les régions métropolitaines de Bangalore et Chennai. L’enjeu de cette recherche doctorale est d’observer et d’expliquer comment des promoteurs immobiliers contribuent à la transformation de l’organisation spatiale des villes et de leurs paysages, mais également de la manière de les représenter et de les concevoir ainsi que de les aménager et de gouverner leur développement. En sondant ces dimensions matérielles, symboliques et politiques, nous explorons les mécanismes qui aident à comprendre l'essor plus rapide de certains promoteurs à un moment récent de l'histoire urbaine. Ceci nécessite alors de prendre en compte les spécificités de l’activité de promotion en scrutant les modalités par lesquelles les entreprises accèdent aux ressources qui leur sont nécessaires (le foncier, les capitaux et le pouvoir réglementaire) tout en prenant soin de les historiciser. Dans le contexte de l'Inde libéralisée, nous remarquons que l'essor des entreprises de promotion immobilière tient à trois aspects conjugués : 1) une demande importante en nouvelles constructions qui reflète la consommation immobilière d’entreprises recherchant des locaux modernes pour héberger leurs salariés et d’une classe moyenne supérieure croissante; 2) un environnement socio-règlementaire assoupli sur tous les aspects importants pour l’activité de promotion immobilière, et en particulier les modalités d'accès aux matériaux de construction et à la main-d’œuvre, mais également au foncier urbain et aux capitaux pour préfinancer les opérations de promotion ; 3) enfin, la disponibilité de ces capitaux à partir de diverses sources (marchés financiers, banques commerciales, investisseurs particuliers). Ainsi, au milieu des années 2000, certains promoteurs sont parvenus à se développer très rapidement, tout en parvenant à conserver une autonomie forte vis-à-vis des investisseurs qui sous-tendent leur essor. Cette autonomie relative des promoteurs, doublée de la puissance de feu apportée par les marchés financiers leur a permis de mettre en œuvre une stratégie de conquête de marchés immobiliers à la fois dans leurs espaces d’origine et par l'implantation dans d'autres villes d’Inde du sud. Ils ont ainsi pu accroître leur volume de production, multipliant des projets caractérisés par leur taille croissante. Les promoteurs immobiliers étudiés se trouvent en position de force pour énoncer des visions sur le développement urbain, la gouvernance des métropoles et pour société urbaine indienne. Ces visions retrouvent celles proposées par d'autres grands entrepreneurs indiens et des cabinets d'audit internationaux : la ville indienne doit être transformée afin de répondre à un idéal de ville de classe mondiale, caractérisée notamment par des infrastructures et services urbains efficients. Les promoteurs disqualifient les acteurs publics en raison de leur incompétence et de leur recours à des pratiques de rémunération frauduleuse. A contrario, les promoteurs se targuent de produire des formes urbaines répondant à cet idéal de ville de classe mondiale, d’apporter des services efficaces au sein de leurs complexes immobiliers, de démontrer leur probité et leur intégrité professionnelles notamment en répondant aux exigences de transparence en matière de communication financière et de bonne gouvernance, et plus généralement d’œuvrer au bien commun par la production de logements et d’immeubles de bureaux adapté à la modernisation économique de l’Inde. Discours d’auto légitimation qui les incitent à rêver tout haut de se substituer aux autorités publiques en charge de l'aménagement des métropoles, ou du moins, à assumer une responsabilité plus importante encore dans leur transformation
The thesis focuses on the little-known role of private developers in making of urban spaces in India, in the metropolitan regions of Bangalore and Chennai. The aim of this doctoral research is to observe and explain how developers contribute to the transformation of the spatial organization of cities and their landscape, but also the way of representing and designing as well as develop and govern the development. By probing the physical, symbolic and political, we explore the mechanisms that help explain the more rapid growth of some promoters to a recent moment in urban history. This then needs to take into account the promotion of the activity of specific scrutinizing the ways in which businesses access to the resources they need (land, capital and regulatory power) while taking care of the historicizing. In the context of liberalized India, we note that the growth of real estate development companies due to three aspects combined: 1) a significant demand for new construction that reflects the real estate consumer companies seeking modern premises to house their employees and a growing upper middle class; 2) a socio-relaxed regulatory environment on all important aspects of the property development business, and in particular the arrangements for access to building materials and labor, but also to urban land and capital to pre-finance development operations; 3) finally, the availability of capital from various sources (financial markets, commercial banks, private investors). In the mid 2000s, some developers have managed to develop very rapidly, while managing to maintain a strong autonomy vis-à-vis investors that underpin their development. This relative autonomy of developers, coupled with the firepower provided by the financial markets allowed them to implement a strategy to conquer real estate markets in both their original spaces and by implanting in other cities of south India. They were able to increase their production volume, multiplying projects characterized by their increasing size. Real estate developers surveyed are in strong position to articulate visions on urban development, the governance of cities and urban Indian society. These views reflected those proposed by other leading Indian business leaders and international audit firms: the Indian city should be transformed to meet a world-class city ideal, characterized by efficient urban infrastructure and services. Proponents disqualify public players because of their incompetence and their use of fraudulent compensation practices. Conversely, proponents boast of producing urban forms responding to this world-class city ideal, provide effective services in their housing complexes, demonstrate probity and professional integrity including meeting the requirements of transparency in financial communication and good governance, and more generally to work for the common good through the production of housing and office buildings adapted to the economic modernization of India. These self-legitimation discourse encourage them to dream aloud to replace public authorities in charge of the development of cities, or at least to assume even greater responsibility in their transformation

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Subramanian, Dilip. "Une usine Indienne : travail, firme et societé dans une entreprise d'Etat Indian Telephone Industries (Bangalore, 1948 - 2002)." Paris, EHESS, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EHES0578.

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À travers une étude monographique couvrant une période d'un demi-siècle (1948 à 2002), cette thèse analyse le fonctionnement d'une entreprise publique produisant des équipements de télécommunications, Indian Telephone Industries, en prenant en compte les activités de quatre catégories d'acteurs : l'État Indien qui exerce une tutelle directe sur l'entreprise, la direction de celle-ci, le syndicat et les ouvriers. La thèse souligne la spécificité du système socio-productif en vigueur dans les entreprises étatiques, désigné comme "régime bureaucratique de production". Les caractéristiques d'un tel régime sont mises en évidence ainsi que leur incidence sur les pratiques des principaux protagonistes. Une large place est aussi consacrée à l’étude des conséquences de l'introduction, en 1991, des réformes économiques en Inde sur l'entreprise qui perd alors son statut monopolistique mais n’est pas privatisée. Celles-ci sont désastreuses à tel point que la survie de l’entreprise est menacée
Based on a monograph spanning a period of half a century (1948 to 2002), thisthesis analyses the mode of functioning of Indian Telephone Industries, a public sector company producing telecommunication equipment. It focuses on the activities of four categories of actors: the State which exercises a strong and direct authority over the enterprise, the management, the union, the workers. The thesis underline the specificity of the socio-productive system prevailing in state-owned undertakings, designated as a "bureautic regime of production". The defining features of this regime are exposed as well as its implications for the practices of the principal actors. Considerable space is also devoted to examining the consequences of the introduction of economic reforms in India in 1991 on the company which has lost its monopolistic status but has not undergone privatisation. Ill-prepared and unequipped to meet the challenges of deregulation, its survival is now in question

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Vikström, Jenny. "Motivations behind gardening in a rapidly urbanizing landscape - a case study of urban gardening in Bangalore, India." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-148718.

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India’s IT-capital Bangalore is experiencing rapid urbanization causing diminishing greenery and biodiversity. Urbanization contributes to disconnecting humans from nature, further contributing to environmental degradation, since connecting with nature is crucial for fostering pro-environmental behaviour and stewardship which is required for urban resilience. The city’s long legacy of home gardening has been threatened by the city growth, however, Bangaloreans are finding new ways of engaging in gardening. This study gives an inside perspective of how and why middle class Bangaloreans choose to engage in gardening, building on interviews with 24 terrace and community gardeners, and identification of 6 community garden initiatives. The terrace gardening movement emerged during the 1990s, and have now spread to engage several thousands of citizens, growing on their rooftops across the city, however, community gardening is a ‘new’ phenomenon. The motivations expressed by gardeners are, in this study, categorised in motivational drivers and direct benefits. Motivational drivers affect the gardener’s desire to engage and these drivers are identified as memories, cultural values and beliefs, experiences of urbanization, perception of risk and external influence. Direct benefits are the benefits they get from gardening, identified as material, psychological and social benefits. The main motivations stated were the benefits of healthy food and connecting with nature. Terrace gardeners have a strong network and the main platform for interaction is social media, and many community gardeners are also part of that forum, where experiences and knowledge are shared. Gardeners use natural and organic practices and many have a desire to preserve traditional species and methods. This indicates that urban gardening is a way of stewardship of urban (agro)biodiversity and thus requires increased attention, for overcoming challenges related to management and lack of perseverance, and for contributing to city resilience through human and nature connections through gardening.
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Schewenius, Maria. "Trees, Temples and Technology : Social values and ecosystem services in a changing urban context, the case of Bangalore." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-179322.

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The pressure on natural resources in urban areas increases as cities grow in size and populations; however, informal institutions as norms and values by ‘common people’ can play a major role for protection of urban greens. As the city of Bangalore, India, rapidly grows in size and population, its green areas are disappearing. In rural parts of India, local people’s notion of certain ecosystems as sacred has rendered the ecosystems protection and contributed to sustenance of ecosystem services’ generation. The aim of this paper is to explore the potential of stewardship of urban greens in a changing social context, focusing on religious beliefs and practices surrounding trees in Bangalore. It focuses on the cultural dimension of ecosystem services and connects previous research on sacred groves in rural areas with research on stewardship of urban greens. Methods include interview surveys with visitors to five focus sites of religious significance representing the city's four major religions; semi-structured interviews with key informants; and observations. Results show that on the Hindu sites -the study’s main focus- in the city, a range of trees were sacred themselves and revered through a set of practices. On the other sites, trees were rather an incorporated part of the land areas with religious significance. On all sites a set of cultural services was appreciated as generated by trees. Furthermore, visitors had a strong stake in the trees but the experienced levels of capacity to secure the trees’ protection differed between the sites. The study concludes that ‘common people’ are crucial stakeholders for ecosystem stewardship that ensures protection of the urban greens in Bangalore. The different religions in the city provide a multi-faceted protection of different types of urban greens. The level of protection is the outcome of a complex web of community values and norms, where sacredness is one included element.

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Bognäs, Désirée. "To save water or not? : A study of water scarcity at multiple levels, and people's attitudestowards it in Bangalore, India." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för naturgeografi och kvartärgeologi (INK), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-59320.

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In a situation where population growth and development is to be sustained throughnaturally limited water resources, something needs to be done to either render waterusage more effective or make more water available. This is the situation in Bangalore Urban District (BUD), an ever growing city lying far from perennial water sources. This thesis presents the water situation in BUD, and aims to analyze the current status of water resources on multiple levels in BUD. Further the aim is to look at people‘s attitudes towards water scarcity. The methods used are literature studies and semistructured interviews. The study shows that there is a lack of water in relation to the population on basin level, creating the perquisites for water scarcity. Even so, the water stress on city level does not seem to be a direct effect off the water scarcity on basin level, but rather a result of inefficient governance and inadequate infrastructure. This means that to solve the issue, the governing entities in BUD must firstly look at improving the situation on city level rather than focusing on Water Supply Managementon basin level. The perception of this problem varies among people in BUD, and the perception of water stress in relation to the most favorable incentives to care which are a combination of personal and common good incentives, can affect household‘s water behavior. The significance of these results is that people‘s attitudes towards water resources will affect how they handle and use water. Through further research this knowledge can be vital to understanding how to achieve behavioral changes that can lover usage in a growing city like Bangalore.

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Virkar, Shefali Vidya. "The politics of implementing e-government for development : the ecology of games shaping property tax administration in Bangalore city, India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1bf0c6ae-213a-4d40-852e-5c0186099644.

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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of government in encouraging fiscal compliance from the theoretical perspective of the ‘Ecology of Games’; and, both, in tandem with, as well as nuanced by, the analytical model of the ‘Design-Actuality Gap Framework’. Conceptual representations of human behaviour in formal complex institutions, located within Behavioural Economics and Political Game Theory, presuppose that it is possible for government agencies to strategically influence the behavioural preferences and the consumption patterns of individual actors and groups within society. This study, to illustrate the applicative value of the central theoretical precepts and constructs arrived at within the work, presents an empirical case concerned with the implementation and the use of an electronic property tax collection system in Bangalore, India developed between 1998 and 2008.

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Nair, Roopa. "Caught in the digital divide : transforming meanings of space, gender and identity for high-tech professionals in Bangalore City, India." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431518.

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Chinnaswamy, A. "An environmental health information system model for the spatiotemporal analysis of the effects of air pollution on cardiovascular diseases in Bangalore, India." Thesis, Coventry University, 2015. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/ffbc058e-2a6a-4760-b301-8bdbe6a56a33/1.

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This study attempts to answer the research question ‘Can a novel model of health information system strengthen process for conducting research to understand the effects of air pollution on CVD in developing countries?’ There is limited research output from Asia and in particular, from India on studies of the deleterious effects of air pollution on CVD. This research aimed to investigate the barriers in developing countries and proposed the use of a spatiotemporal methodology to assess the effects of air pollution on CVD by developing an application based on a GIS platform. Choosing Bangalore as a case study area, secondary data from various governmental departments that included demographic data, air pollution data and mortality data were obtained. An Environmental Health Information system application based on GIS platform was developed specifically for Bangalore and with the characteristics of the datasets available. Data quality assessment was carried out on these datasets that resulted in the recommendation of a generalisable data quality framework to enable better data collection that will aid in strengthening health development policies. The data was analysed using spatial and non-spatial techniques. Results showed that levels of PM10 were of concern to the city with all areas having either high or critical levels of pollution. CVD deaths also were of concern contributing to almost 40% of total mortality. The potential years of life lost (PYLL), which is an estimate of the average years a person would have lived if he or she had not died prematurely was calculated for the years from 2010 to 2013; this revealed that 2.1 million person years were lost in Bangalore due to CVD alone. These potential years lost is an important factor to consider, as preventive measures taken by the Government will result in a significant economic impact on the city. The limitations of few monitoring stations were overcome by using spatial interpolation techniques such as Inverse Distance Weighted interpolation technique. The performance of the interpolation was tested using cross-validation techniques and the results revealed that Bangalore city would benefit from increased measuring stations for PM10. The logistic regression conducted showed that pollution especially PM10 was a likely predictor of CVD in the city. Spatial analysis was conducted and included buffering, overlay maps, queries and Hotspot analysis highlighting the zone hotspots. The results from the research guided the development of the novel 5-I model that would assist other similar developing cities to assess the effects of air pollution on CVD. The impetus is that based on evidence, intervention policies and programs may be implemented to inform research and practice which will ultimately have social, economic and health impact on the population. On implementation of the model, hotspots will be identified in order to roll out interventions to priority areas and populations most at risk that will ultimately prevent millions of deaths and enhance overall quality of life.

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Enqvist, Johan. "Urban environmental stewardship : Roles and reasons for civic engagements in governance of social-ecological systems." Licentiate thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-116582.

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Stewardship as a concept is increasingly brought forward as a goal to reach sustainability goals of ensuring human wellbeing within the limits of Earth’s life support systems. Scholarship on the required capacities for planetary stewardship is growing rapidly, as are the insights. This thesis focuses on contributing with knowledge about what stewardship implies in terms of civic engagement in environmental issues, particularly in contexts where these can be particularly challenging: rapidly changing cities. Paper I describes the internal functioning of a citizen network engaged in various environmental issues in Bangalore, India. Analyzing social network structure and desired outcomes, it shows that while the loose structure inhibits efficiency, it encourages inclusiveness and builds legitimacy among members. Despite a reduced capacity to actively mobilize members, the network facilitates ecosystem monitoring and serves as an information platform to connect diverse groups across the city. Paper II describes how local engagement to restore Bangalorean lakes can influence city-level governance of water supply. Following key events in the 1960s, Bangalore has become increasingly dependent on a single source of water and seems unable to explore other supply approaches for its rapidly growing population. The study shows that the system’s trap-like dynamics can be rewired by citizen-based lake groups by incentivizing authorities to break long-standing centralization trends. By re- acknowledging the water bodies’ multifunctional role as man-made water harvesting units, groups have gathered local support and improved monitoring to protect lakes after restoration. Together, the two papers show that civic involvement in urban environmental stewardship can improve governance by complementing and acting as a watchdog over public authorities.

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Choi, Stanley Jeonsik. "The Christian school as a means of effective evangelism in India history and evaluation of the Saint Paul Mission School in Bangalore, India /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Evans, Alexandra E. V. "Institutional arrangements for resource recovery and reuse in the wastewater sector." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/23427.

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As populations grow and urban centres expand, meeting water demand and wastewater management requirements will become increasingly difficult. Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals is to: 'Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all'. Part of the approach to achieving this will be reusing wastewater and will require a greater understanding of the institutional arrangements that support or obstruct reuse. This research was designed to achieve this and aimed to develop a set of factors that investors could use to assess the institutional feasibility of reuse in a given setting. The methodology combined a case study approach, focusing on wastewater systems in Bangalore, India and Hanoi, Vietnam, with triangle analysis to assess: the content of policies and laws; the structures (formal and informal) to implement laws and reuse projects; and the culture around acceptance and engagement in reuse. The reuse practices observed in Bangalore were treatment and use within apartments, centralized treatment and sale to industries, use in agriculture after natural attenuation, groundwater recharge and lake regeneration. In Hanoi the only reuse was indirect use from rivers feeding fish ponds and fields, although formal treatment and use is planned. Critically, both cities have environmental and water resources policies and laws that advocate reuse, as well as related local legislation. However, support for reuse is not reciprocated in industrial, agricultural or fisheries law, the result being that reuse does not always take place as planned. Legislation is required along the whole sanitation chain to the point of wastewater use. Structures to implement reuse are also vital. In Bangalore the water board has initiated reuse projects and established the New Initiatives Division but resources are a limiting factor. Effective institutions include expertise, manpower and financing mechanisms, which are lacking in both cities. The environment agency is also engaged in reuse though legislation on recycling in residential and commercial complexes but guidance for users is inadequate, expectations are perceived to be excessive and monitoring is almost impossible. The driver for reuse is increasingly the benefits observed by users. In the case of apartments this is a reliable water source and reduced costs of water supply. As a result, a private sector in wastewater treatment is becoming established. The active civil society and strong, independent media are instrumental in providing information to potential users and holding authorities to account in Bangalore. Their absence in Hanoi is notable. In summary, institutional elements to be considered are: supportive legislation across all sectors; details of acceptable reuse, deterrents and inducements; budget allocation; structures to enable reuse; strong civil society, NGOs, courts, media and universities providing evidence of suitability and safety; donors and finance mechanisms; and stakeholders willing to use the products. Encumbrances are inconsistent or uncoordinated legislation, lack of cooperation and insufficient benefit sharing or perceptions of benefits along the reuse chain.

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Grondeau, Alexandre. "Contribution à une géographie critique des territoires de haute technologie." Paris 10, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA100166.

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Après un rappel théorique des enjeux de l’étude des technopôles et des cyberdistricts, cette thèse revient sur les trois principales évolutions de la géographie des territoires de haute technologie depuis quinze ans. D’abord, les territoires précurseurs possèdent désormais une histoire riche en enseignements. Ils ont notamment traversé les crises avec plus ou moins de réussite et l’étude de leur capacité à rebondir peut et doit être éclairante à plus d’un titre. L’étude théorique de la Silicon Valley permet de faire un bilan de cette histoire et de la littérature scientifique qui a trait au sujet. Ensuite, la reproduction de ces territoires précurseurs a été initiée à la fin des années 60 dans les pays développés, et à partir de la moitié des années 80 dans certains pays en voie de développement. Les succès ont été divers mais les enseignements sont nombreux, notamment en ce qui concerne la pertinence d’un modèle urbain qui semble atteindre ses limites. Les cas de Sophia-Antipolis, au Nord, et de Bangalore, au Sud, nous permettent d’évaluer cette reproduction. Enfin, l’apparition, au début des années 90, de « cyberdistricts » au cœur des grandes métropoles ou mégapoles a pris le contre-pied de ce que l’on pouvait observer jusqu’alors. Ils semblent offrir une alternative crédible à un modèle situant les technopôles en périphérie des métropoles. L’étude de la Silicon Alley à New York et du Silicon Sentier à Paris sont les deux études de cas qui permettront de vérifier cette hypothèse. La mise à jour de la géographie des territoires de haute technologie est également l’occasion de revenir sur les notions de réseaux, sur les rapports entre proximité spatiale et social, et sur les politiques publiques en faveur de l’innovation
This doctoral thesis first recalls the theoretical stakes of the study of technopols and cyberdistricts before getting back to the 3 main evolutions of high tech territories geography since 15 years. First, the seniority of precursory territories entails a history rich of lessons. Such territories have notably crossed several crisises with more of less of success and the study of their capacity to spring to life again may and must be enlightening in several respects. The theoretical study of Silicon Valley enables to draw an assessement of such history and of the scientific literature relating to the subject. Furthermore, the reproduction of the precursory territories has been initiated at the end of the 60’s in developed countries and as from the middle of the 80’s in some developing countries. The succeses have been various. However they have entailed a lot of lessons, notably regarding the relevance of the urban model which seems reaching its limits. The case of Sophia-Antipolis in North countries and of Bangalore in South countries enable to assess such reproduction. Finally, the occurrence, at the end of the 90’s, of cyberdistricts in the heart of big metropolises or megalopolises breaks with what was previously observed. Such cyberdistricts seem to offer a credible alternative to a model situating the technopols in metropolises’ periphery. The study of Silicon Alley in New York and of Silicon Sentier in Paris are the two cases which will enable to verify such hypothesis. The update of geography of high tech territories is also an occasion to get back the notions of networks, on the relations between spatial and social proximity and on public policies in favor of innovation

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Cotesta, Roberto [Verfasser], Alessandra [Akademischer Betreuer] Buonanno, Alessandra [Gutachter] Buonanno, Scott [Gutachter] Hughes, and Bangalore S. [Gutachter] Sathyaprakash. "Multipolar gravitational waveforms for spinning binary black holes and their impact on source characterization / Roberto Cotesta ; Gutachter: Alessandra Buonanno, Scott Hughes, Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash ; Betreuer: Alessandra Buonanno." Potsdam : Universität Potsdam, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1237319927/34.

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Andreasson, Lisa, and Jönsson Johanna Olsson. "I am still unlearning it : A qualitative study of how Indian journalists perceive their reality from a gender perspective." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-52167.

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India experienced huge media coverage from all over the world associated with the Nirbhaya-case in 2012, when a young middleclass girl was brutally raped in a bus by five men in Delhi. After this horrifying incident a lot of demonstrations followed all over India. Women in the urban areas was arguing for the same rights as men and was standing up for a more equal society where everybody is able to live as freely as someone else, no matter what gender you was born with. This study aim to examine what experiences, perceptions and opinions Indian journalists in English written press have of their reality from a gender perspective. We wanted to know how and when Indian journalist represent women and if there is a certain way of thinking about representation of women in the media content. In interviews with a total of eleven journalists and ethnographic observations in two of India’s largest cities we tried to examine the structures and perceptions that influenced the journalist’s worldview and thus also the messages that appears in the news. By using the theory of structuration, agenda setting, performativity and intersectionality we examined what structures that the journalists live and operates within and how this is affecting the media content.

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Lasrado, Reena Anitha. "A qualitative study of the cultural implications of attempted suicide and its prevention in South India." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-qualitative-study-of-the-cultural-implications-of-attempted-suicide-and-its-prevention-in-south-india(90335082-db3a-4a0a-a853-5193cbd90f41).html.

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Suicide in India is a complex social issue and a neglected area by the state. Research has focused on risk factors and the epidemiology of suicide; studies concerning the intersection of culture with attempted suicide are limited. The aim of this study is to explore cultural implications of attempted suicide and its prevention in Southern India by means of comparing and contrasting the accounts of survivors of attempted suicide, mental health professionals and traditional healers engaged in treating people with suicidal behaviour. Methodology: A qualitative design is used drawing on constant comparison method and thematic analysis. The analysis of the data is underpinned by the theoretical concepts of Bourdieu’s work. In-depth interviews were conducted with fifteen survivors of attempted suicide, eight mental health professionals and eight healers from Southern India. Results: Application of Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic power and violence, cultural capital and habitus to the analysis of data revealed the process of constant interaction among visible and invisible fields such as faith, power, control, family, religion and social systems which impact survivors’ disposition to situations. Disparities in gender and role structures within families, financial challenges, health concerns, abuse, and violence were commonly cited factors by all three groups of participants. A few survivors and healers attributed misfortunes and distress to magic, spells and ‘bad times’. Healers and professionals were particularly of the opinion that cultural transition has added to stress among people. Survivors considered religious and traditional methods of support as socially accepted norms. Medical assistance was sought only during apparent ill health. Psychosocial support was very rarely accessed and availed. A lack of awareness among family members and friends to identify mental health concerns and a wide gap between identification of severe stressors and treatment increased the risk of suicide and limited timely intervention. Conclusion: This study identified a set of cultural mechanisms that produced negative impact and led to attempted suicide. The role of culture in causing suicide and attempted suicide is explained by unraveling the dynamics of cultural mechanisms and support processes that survivors experienced and as reported by professionals and healers. This research evidence presents pathways into attempted suicide and a life away from suicide.

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Booth, Judith, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "A critique of "cultural fit" in relation to the recruitment of Indian Information Technologists for the Y2K project in Australia." Deakin University. School of Communication & Creative Arts, 2002. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20040617.142627.

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In this study of intercultural communication, I investigate the multi-faceted meaning of the expression " cultural fit " in the sense that it is used by recruiters when shortlisting Indian information technologists to fill skills shortages for the Y2K project in Australia. The data is in the form of ten videotaped interviews in Bangalore and the recruiter commentary on those tapes in Melbourne. A crucial decision to be made by recruiters in any shortlisting process is " How will the candidate fit into the workplace?" This question becomes more problematical when applied to overseas-trained professionals. I take a critical approach, drawing principally on the research traditions of linguistics where studies of intercultural communication and workplace interaction intersect, employing chiefly the tools of Critical Discourse Analysis and Interactional Sociolinguistics and the more abstract notions of Bourdieu. A bridge between these different discourse approaches is provided by Sarangi & Roberts < 1999 < who show the connection between the larger institutional order and interactional routines, through an elaboration of frontstage talk and backstage talk following Goffman < 1959 < . An analysis of the interviews < frontstage talk < reveals "cultural fit" to involve a knowledge of institutional talk, in particular, directness. The recruiter commentary < backstage talk < draws attention to issues of intelligibility, body language, technical expertise and workplace values. the study shows that Indian Information Technologists have "partial fit" in that they possess technical fit but do not demonstrate, or lack the opportunity to demonstrate in the interview, Australian workplace values such as small talk, humour and informality. The recruiter judgments were fleeting and apart from checking for intelligibility, were made on the basis of candidates' body language thus highlighting its importance and its relative absence from the discourse approaches mentioned above. This study shows clearly that there is room for more communicative flexibility on the part of all the stakeholders.

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