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Sustainable Development Goals Series Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure Divya Upadhyaya Joshi Caroline Brassard Editors Urban Spaces and Gender in Asia Sustainable Development Goals Series WorldleadersadoptedSustainableDevelopmentGoals(SDGs)aspartofthe 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Providing in-depth knowledge, this series fosters comprehensive research on these global targets to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change. Thesustainabilityofourplanetiscurrentlyamajorconcernfortheglobal community and has been a central theme for a number of major global initiatives in recent years. Perceiving a dire need for concrete benchmarks toward sustainable development, the United Nations and world leaders formulated the targets that make up the seventeen goals. 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More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15486 Divya Upadhyaya Joshi (cid:129) Caroline Brassard Editors Urban Spaces and Gender in Asia 123 Editors DivyaUpadhyaya Joshi Caroline Brassard Human ResourceDevelopment Center AsiaResearch Institute Kumaun University National University ofSingapore Nainital, Uttarakhand, India Singapore, Singapore ISSN 2523-3084 ISSN 2523-3092 (electronic) Sustainable Development GoalsSeries ISBN978-3-030-36493-9 ISBN978-3-030-36494-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36494-6 ©SpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2020 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeor part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations,recitation,broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway, andtransmissionorinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware, orbysimilarordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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We are grateful to all the people who were involved in the International Conference that led to this book. The Confer- ence, held in November 2017 in New Delhi, was made possible due to the funding from the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New DelhiandUttarakhandStateCouncilforScienceandTechnology(UCOST), Dehradun, India. At Kumaun University, Nainital, India, we thank its Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dinesh Kumar Nauriyal, whose enthusiasm for the project and mentoring remained crucial for its completion. Weexpressourgratitudetoallourcolleagues,whohavegenerouslygiven their time and incisive comments on the drafts. We thank Linda Lane, Namrata Chindarkar, Tess Del Rosario, Yvonne Chen, Ame Berges, Robin Bush, and Naomi Aoki and Pushpesh Pant for reviewing the chapters included in this book. Our sincere thanks go to all the editorial team members at Springer and especially to Prof. R. B. Singh, the Co-Editor of the Sustainable Develop- mentGoalsSeries,fortheirtrust,supportandencouragementthroughoutthis journey. Finally,wethankourfriendsandfamiliesforemotionalsustenanceinthis venture, especially our children Ananya, Gabriel, Oliver and Tristan for beingsoconsiderateandcaring,oftensacrificingtheirtimewithussothatwe can pursue our academic work. Divya Upadhyaya Joshi Caroline Brassard v Contents 1 Urban Spaces, Gender and Development Goals in Asia .. .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 1 Divya Upadhyaya Joshi and Caroline Brassard Part I Gender Perspectives on the Urban Labour Market 2 Protection or Discrimination? The Case of Nepal’s Policy Banning Female Migrant Workers. .... .... .... ..... .... 17 Richa Shivakoti 3 Struggling for Survival in Urban Spaces: Women’s Paid and Unpaid Work in Selected Indian Slums. .... ..... .... 35 Aasha Kapur Mehta and Sanjay Pratap 4 An Exploratory Study on “Urban-Ecological Adaptation”, Gender Equality and Work–Life Balance in Japanese Companies ... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 49 I. Yamaguchi 5 Starting Up a Business in ASEAN: A Gender Perspective... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 65 Bui Thi Minh Tam and Paweena Leetrakun Part II Social Inclusivity and the Role of Cities 6 A Flat of My Own: Singlehood and Rental Housing.... .... 95 Rashi Bhargava and Richa Chilana 7 Negotiating the Queer and the Politics of Sexualities in Urban Spaces: Sanitized Spaces, Vocality, Display and Visibility in Kolkata City. .... .... .... .... ..... .... 109 Anup Shekhar Chakraborty 8 Urban Informality, Gender and Exclusion in India .... .... 131 Akriti Bhatia and Divya Upadhyaya Joshi vii viii Contents Part III Urban Spaces and Public Policy Challenges 9 Migration, Trafficking, Sex Work and Constrained Choices: Gender and Sustainable Development in Bangladesh. .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 147 Habiba Sultana 10 Malay Muslim Low-Income Households in Singapore: Gender Ramifications and Policy Challenges. .... ..... .... 161 Caroline Brassard 11 Gender-Sensitive Approachesand Issues of Urban Climate Changes: Benefits and Challenges . .... .... .... ..... .... 177 Reetu Sogani and K. R. Viswanathan Editors and Contributors About the Editors Divya Upadhyaya Joshi is Associate Professor, University Grants Com- mission- Human Resource Development Centre, Kumaun University, Nainital, India. She has a Masters in Political Science and specializes in Gender Studies having earned her Ph.D. degree from Kumaun University on the Political Socialization of Women in the Central Himalayas. She has presented and publishedresearchpapers,completedresearchprojectsandeditedabookon issues related to gender equity and women’s empowerment. She has undertaken exploratory research relating to gender roles and equity in marginalized mountain areas, having won a national award for her in the CentralHimalayas.ShecoordinatestheWomen’sStudiesCentreatKumaun University. e-mail: [email protected] Caroline Brassard is currently a Visiting Scholar with the Asia Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. She has been an academic adviser at the Centre for Peace and Justice, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh since 2017. Prior to that, she held various positions including Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School ofPublicPolicy(LKYSPP),attheNationalUniversityofSingapore,where sheworkedfrom2002to2018.Herresearchfocusesondevelopmentpolicy lessons from disasters in the Asia-Pacific and disaster governance in urbanizing contexts. She is currently editing a book on “Social Justice, Empowerment and Inclusivity in Asia” to be published in 2019. Her earlier book “Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific”, edited with David GilesandArnHowitt,waspublishedbySpringerin2015.Hercurrentwork focuses on the challenges of coordinating poverty eradication and disaster risk reduction in Bhutan, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of London. e-mail: [email protected] ix x EditorsandContributors Contributors Rashi Bhargava Department of Sociology, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India Akriti Bhatia Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India Caroline Brassard Asia Research Institute, Asian Urbanisms Cluster, and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Anup Shekhar Chakraborty Department of Political Science & Political Studies, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, West Bengal, India Richa Chilana Department of English, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India Divya Upadhyaya Joshi University Grants Commission, Human Resource Development Centre, Kumaun University, Nainital, India PaweenaLeetrakunChiangRaiRajabhatUniversity,ChiangRai,Thailand Aasha Kapur Mehta Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, India Sanjay Pratap Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, India RichaShivakotiResearchOfficer,CarletonUniversity,Ottawa,ON,Canada Reetu Sogani CHINTAN International Trust, Ranikhet, Uttarakhand, India HabibaSultanaDepartmentofAnthropology,JagannathUniversity,Dhaka, Bangladesh; UK, Schumacher Centre, Rugby, UK Bui Thi Minh Tam Faculty of Economics, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand K. R. Viswanathan International Climate Change Specialist, Practical Action Consulting, New Delhi, India I.YamaguchiSchoolofInformationandCommunication,MeijiUniversity, Tokyo, Japan
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