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Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia

Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia

Kuldova, Tereza
Varghese, Mathew A.

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 331947622X
ISBN13: 9783319476223
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Mar 17 2017
Pages: 289
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.29 Depth: 8.53
Language: English
This book brings anthropologists and critical theorists together in order to investigate utopian visions of the future in the neoliberal cities of India and Sri Lanka. Arguing for the priority of materiality in any analysis of contemporary ideology, the authors explore urban construction projects, special economic zones, fashion ramps, films, archaeological excavations, and various queer spaces. In the process, they reveal how diverse co-existing utopian visions are entangled with local politics and global capital, and show how these utopian visions are at once driven by visions of excess and by increasing expulsions. It's a dystopia already in the making - one marred by land grabs and forced evictions, rising inequality, and the loss of urbanity and civility.

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