Urban Utopias
Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia
Editors: Kuldova, Tereza, Varghese, Mathew A. (Eds.)
- Provides an analysis of emergent utopian formations within the context of intense urbanizations, global re-networking, and social restructuring
- Focuses on processes that emerged post-2000; a period in which a gamut of urban re-conceptualizations and spatial reorderings took place
- Sheds new light on an understudied and oft ignored population
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Tereza Kuldova is Researcher at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation, and History, University of Oslo, Norway, and Visiting Senior Researcher at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria.
Mathew A. Varghese is a non-resident research fellow with The Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR), Kochi, India, and Lecturer at The Maharajas College, Kerala, India.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Urban Utopias
- Book Subtitle
- Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia
- Editors
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- Tereza Kuldova
- Mathew A. Varghese
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-47623-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-47623-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-47622-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 289
- Number of Illustrations
- 13 illustrations in colour
- Topics
