Dharavi

The most well-known slum in India is Dharavi a section of the city of Mumbai. After appearing in the movie “Slumdog Millionaire,” Dharavi began to gain a lot of attention. It is a busy, bustling, fast moving, densely packed city. Similar to Brazil it has little formal infrastructure, and many of the homes are makeshift. The slums of Dharavi did not emerge until the late 19th century. Before then the city was nothing more than a swamp used…

it directed by Helen Simpson and presented by Kevin McCloud is based in Dharavi ,Mumbai ,India. This documentary follows McClouds stay in the slum. viewers watch McCloud learn how to live like the slum dwellers during there day to day lives. The health and sanitation issues in Dharavi have been showed as very poor and not very nice. In the start of the documentary we see McCloud getting immunised for the diseases in Dharavi . The swage is open and there is no sanitation. Their is mounds of…

reasons. One reason I chose this concept is because in the city Dharavi they are over populated with 1,000,000 people in a square mile. This means that they all have to adapt to this lifestyle, which means working together as a society. The people in this city came to know as a group what they had to do to work with each other. They all developed positive attitudes, similar values, similar skills, and similar norms. To be socialized in Dharavi is essential. There is too many people in that city…

ascribed status is how the people in the slums of Dharavi are typically generational ‘slumdogs’. This means they were probably given this low, economic status and label at birth, and this has been passed down generation from generation. The stigma attached to the label follows as well. With the movie Slumdog Millionaire, it really affected how they are perceived as well. The lowest insult someone in India could be called is a dog, and this is what the Dharavi people were taken back by. They do…

resources After watching this video I realized that there was a conflict theory going on in these "mega slums". One of the biggest resources that is most competed for is water. Water is so scarce and is distributed unevenly throughout the slums of Dharavi. It 's causing many conflicts. The allocation of water resources is also an issue. More water from the dams is going to sugar factories and newly built residential areas compete with golf courses while farmers are losing out on water for crop…

cultural values of Dharavi. McCloud was originally unaccepting to the landscape, quoting it as being “hard to stomach”. This is reinforced with the use of a handheld camera, which creates instability and disorientates the responders as a means of aligning us with the confronted mind frame of McCloud as he experiences the poverty of the slum. As he is so overwhelmed, Kevin is unable to feel a sense of community. However, as McCloud is continually exposed to the way of life in Dharavi, his…

Each one shows how structural Dharavi has forcibly become through inequality and poverty. Social institution is the organized, usual, or standard ways by which society meets its basic needs. Dharavi was developed in 1882 during the British colonial era. “The slum grew in part because of an expulsion of factories and residents from the peninsular city centre by the colonial government, and from rural poor migrating into urban Mumbai (then called Bombay). (Wikipedia) “Dharavi has one million…

how their lives were effected because of something like social inequality. One of the characters spoke about how it would be hard for him to get a job in acting and become a movie star of Bollywood because of his background of being from a slum in Dharavi. The outside world views this slum as a very negative and dirty place and even went as far as to name them after dogs. With this negative connotation, being called “slumdogs”, it is hard to find work in the city or make it out of the slum.…

All the members from the real slum dog’s video are from Dharavi, India. They all seem to be very family orientated as well. I believe that this video shows that these families have a stronger family bond and obligation to the welfare of their family unit, as apposed to Americans because of their social location. For example: the families in the slums work hard to make money…

While urbanization has led to the creation of slums such as Dharavi, the desperate need of remodeling these areas will allow for plenty of jobs for the members of the shantytowns and the lower middle class of India as construction workers. Not only are infrastructure jobs created, but also several famous NGO’s such…