Beyond kolkata: rajarhat and the dystopia of urban imagination
Auteur :
Dey, Ishita / Samaddar, Ranabir / Sen, Suhit K.
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781138660373
Date de publication :
21 janv. 2016
Dimensions :
21,6 x 13,8 cm
Poids :
362 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.