Subaltern Frontiers
Agrarian City-Making in Gurgaon
Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-10047-2 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-10047-2 (ISBN)
It is the story of India's urban transformation, examining how the post-liberalisation urban project has been shaped through subaltern histories, logics and subjects. The subaltern frontiers play a role in transferring commonly-owned agricultural land into legible property, and shaping cheap, exploitable migrant labour that the city depends on.
In urban and peri-urban areas across the Global South, politicians, planners and developers are engaged in a voracious scramble to refashion land for global real estate investment, and transfer state power to private sector actors. Much of this development has taken place on the outskirts of the traditional metropoles, in the territorially flexible urban frontier. At the forefront of these processes in India, is Gurgaon, a privately developed metropolis on the south-western hinterlands of New Delhi, that has long been touted as India's flagship neoliberal city. Subaltern Frontiers tells a story of India's remarkable urban transformation by examining the politics of land and labour that have shaped the city of Gurgaon. The book examines how the country's flagship post-liberalisation urban project has been shaped and filtered through agrarian and subaltern histories, logics, and subjects. In doing so, the book explores how the production of globalised property and labour in contemporary urban India is filtered through colonial instruments of land governance, living histories of uneven agrarian development, material geographies of labour migration, and the worldly aspirations of peasant-agriculturalists.
In urban and peri-urban areas across the Global South, politicians, planners and developers are engaged in a voracious scramble to refashion land for global real estate investment, and transfer state power to private sector actors. Much of this development has taken place on the outskirts of the traditional metropoles, in the territorially flexible urban frontier. At the forefront of these processes in India, is Gurgaon, a privately developed metropolis on the south-western hinterlands of New Delhi, that has long been touted as India's flagship neoliberal city. Subaltern Frontiers tells a story of India's remarkable urban transformation by examining the politics of land and labour that have shaped the city of Gurgaon. The book examines how the country's flagship post-liberalisation urban project has been shaped and filtered through agrarian and subaltern histories, logics, and subjects. In doing so, the book explores how the production of globalised property and labour in contemporary urban India is filtered through colonial instruments of land governance, living histories of uneven agrarian development, material geographies of labour migration, and the worldly aspirations of peasant-agriculturalists.
Thomas G. Cowan teaches economic geography at the University of Nottingham. His research interests are urban geography, South Asian political economy, labour studies and economic development and growth.
Dedication; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Translations; Foreword; List of Figures; Introduction: Antinomies of an agrarian city; 1. The experiment; 2. The village in the city; 3. The plot; 4. The bureaucrat and the survey; 5. The tenement; 6. The camp; Conclusion: Urban limits; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.11.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 580 g |
| Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-10047-5 / 1009100475 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-10047-2 / 9781009100472 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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