A growing call among international and urban development scholars points to the need for greater integration of community voices in the work of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the ground, and an end to traditional top-down approaches to global development challenges. In A Place to Call Home, Ramya Ramanath goes one step further, bringing these voices front and center in this ethnographic study about a large government-sponsored resettlement of slum communities located within Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai. It was a controversial resettlement project that was fought against by environmentalists, aroused anger among citizens on both sides of the project, leading to riots and protests. Today this project, called the Sangharsh Nagar, spread over 85 acres, is Asia’s largest urban resettlement and rehabilitation project. Using in-depth interviews and focus groups, Ramanath explores the lived experiences of 120 women, recording their journeys from slum life to resettlement housing as well as their firsthand insights about the numerous governmental and non-governmental organizations involved. In doing so, she reveals the women to be more than passive recipients of services; rather, she names them as experts of the process by which policy moves from public debate to material reality. She writes,

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书评：一个可以称之为家的地方：作为孟买变革推动者的女性作者：Ramanath, R.

国际和城市发展学者越来越多地呼吁将社区声音更多地融入当地非政府组织 (NGO) 的工作中，并结束传统的自上而下应对全球发展挑战的方法。在一个叫家的地方，Ramya Ramanath 更进了一步，在这项关于政府资助的孟买桑杰甘地国家公园内的贫民窟社区的大规模重新安置的民族志研究中，将这些声音置于前沿和中心。这是一个有争议的移民安置项目，遭到环保人士的反对，引起了项目双方公民的愤怒，引发了骚乱和抗议。今天，这个名为 Sangharsh Nagar 的项目占地 85 英亩，是亚洲最大的城市安置和修复项目。通过深度访谈和焦点小组，Ramanath 探索了 120 名妇女的生活经历，记录了她们从贫民窟生活到安置房的旅程，以及她们对众多政府和非政府组织的第一手见解。通过这样做，她揭示了女性不仅仅是被动的服务接受者；相反，她将他们称为政策从公开辩论转向物质现实过程的专家。她写道，她将他们称为政策从公开辩论转向物质现实过程的专家。她写道，她将他们称为政策从公开辩论转向物质现实过程的专家。她写道，