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Urban Utopias : Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia /

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, s...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Kuldova, Tereza; Varghese, Mathew A
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
Subjects:
Social sciences
Ethnology > Asia
Ethnology
Sociology, Urban
Urban Studies/Sociology
Asian Culture
Social Anthropology
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47623-0
Summary: 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 an
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XVIII, 289 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9783319476230
Index Number: HT101
CLC: C912.4
Contents: 1. Introduction: Urban Utopias - Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal India and Sri Lanka -- 2. The Impossibility of World Class Slum Free Indian Cities and the Fantasy of Two Indias -- 3. Guarded Luxotopias and Expulsions in New Delhi: Aesthetics and Ideology of Outer and Inner Spaces of an Urban Utopia -- 4. Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa -- 5. Vikasanam: The Expansionist Choreography of Space-Making in Kerala -- 6. Cities of Neoliberal Future: Urban Utopia in Indian Science Fiction Cinema -- 7. Manifesting Sri Lankan Megalomania the Rajapakses Vision of Empire

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