Narratives of Sustainable Indian Urbanism: The Logics of Global and Local Knowledge Mobilities in Chennai

Abstract

The research presented here was generously supported by the Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS), IIT Madras, and funds provided by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Part of the research was carried out with a seed fund from the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) under the project title " Climate change and socio-cultural transformation for sustainable living in urban India. " Another part of the research was supported through an IGCS-DAAD-postdoctoral scholarship for the project " Global visions and local realities of sustainable urban development. " We are grateful to our research and student assistants at IIT Madras who helped with fieldwork and transcriptions of interviews. Our sincere thanks goes to the editors who invited us to contribute to this special issue in the first place and made valuable suggestions that helped improve the paper. Equally, we cannot give enough thanks to the two reviewers for their detailed comments and probing of the text which encouraged us to work out the argument more clearly.