Ishita Dey, Ranabir Samaddar, Suhit K. Sen

Beyond Kolkata

Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township called New Town in Rajarhat near Kolkata as a hi-tech 'utopian' city for the opulent, revealing the working of primitive, exploitative modes of capital accumulation at the heart of this post-colonial, neo-liberal urban development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780415844352
• ISBN-10: 0415844355
• Artikelnr.: 37087932

Autorenporträt

Ishita Dey is a member of the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, and doctoral scholar, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi, India. Ranabir Samaddar is Director, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India. Suhit K. Sen is Senior Researcher, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates. List of Maps and Tables. List of Abbreviations. Preface.
Acknowledgements 1. Where is Rajarhat? 2. Destruction of a World 3. Losers
and Gainers 4. Urban Legends of Consent 5. Logistics and Nightmares 6. New
Town, New Labour 7. The Global and National Histories of Rajarhat 8.
Politics of the Multitude 9. Concluding Reflections. Glossary.
Bibliography. About the Authors. Index