Principal Investigator: Michael John Patrick Walton. Lead Organisation: Centre of policy research, India
Co-investigator: Partha Mukhopadhyay
In Indian cities many people live in marginal areas, with insecure housing, and inadequate provision of most public services, such as water and sanitation, electricity, garbage collection and policing.

This explores how the lived relationships between alcohol control, poverty and development in South Africa are manifested among Cape Town's poorest residents and contributes to debates in development studies, geography, urban studies and public health.
Alcohol, poverty and the South African city
Alcohol control in the news: the politics of media representations of alcohol policy in South Africa.
Stakeholder narratives on alcohol governance in the Western Cape: the socio-spatial 'nuisance' of drink.
Flows, Friction and the Sociomaterial Metabolization of Alcohol
Alcohol, ideological schisms and a science of corporate behaviours on health
The space and place of drinking in Salt River : contested narratives and imaginaries of the urban through a lens of the locie
Liquor regulations and zoning schemes : attempts by the state to control shebeens in Cape Town
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