Subaltern Frontiers: Agrarian City-Making in Gurgaon

ISBN-13: 9781009100472 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

THOMAS G. COWAN

Opis

The book examines how globalised urban labour and property markets are produced by agrarian actors, institutions, spaces and territories.

Recenzje

'Subaltern Frontiers is a superb, sometimes surprising, and often moving analysis of agrarian transformations in Gurgaon, an iconic peri-urban frontier of Delhi. Eschewing tired developmentalist scripts of urban modernity and its impediments, Cowan instead underscores how agrarian and working-class actors and spaces subtend the material and imaginative possibilities of this new urban India. He shows how heterogenous agrarian worlds, encompassing land, property, and working frontiers, enable as well as thwart the designs and desires of state and capital, unsettling hegemonic trajectories of city-making and accumulation. Theoretically luminous, ethnographically plush, and vividly narrated, Subaltern Frontiers provides singular insights into the under-noticed geographies and cultural politics of agrarian urbanization. It is a surpassing contribution to the fields of agrarian and urban studies.' Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota

Spis treści

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.