The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India: Illiberal Spaces, Illiberal Cities

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Ritanjan Das (University of Portsmouth, UK) Nilotpal Kumar (Azim Premji Uni., Bangalore, India)

The Politics of Community-making in New Urban India

Illiberal Spaces, Illiberal Cities

Ritanjan Das (University of Portsmouth, UK), Nilotpal Kumar (Azim Premji Uni., Bangalore, India)

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English

Routledge
09 October 2024

Regional studies; Urban communities; Ethnic studies; Politics & government

Series: Routledge Research on Urban Asia

This book explores the relationship between the production of new urban spaces and illiberal community-making in contemporary India. It is based on an ethnographic study in Noida, a city at the eastern fringe of the state of Uttar Pradesh, bordering national capital Delhi.

The book demonstrates a flexible planning approach being central to the entrepreneurial turn in India’s post-liberalisation urbanisation, whereby a small-scale industrial township is transformed into a real-estate driven modern city. Its real point of departure, however, is in the argument that this turn can enable a form of illiberal community-making in new cities that are quite different from older metropolises. Exclusivist forms of solidarity and symbolic boundary construction - stemming from the differences across communities as well as their internal heterogeneities - form the crux of this process, which is examined in three distinct but often interspersed socio-spatial forms: planned middle-class residential quarters, ‘urban villages’ and migrant squatter colonies.

The book combines radical geographical conceptualisations of social production of space and neoliberal urbanism with sociological and anthropological approaches to urban community-making. It will be of interest to researchers in development studies, sociology, urban studies, as well as readers interested in society and politics of contemporary India/South Asia.

By: Ritanjan Das (University of Portsmouth UK), Nilotpal Kumar (Azim Premji Uni., Bangalore, India)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9780367537234
ISBN 10: 0367537230
Series: Routledge Research on Urban Asia
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 09 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ritanjan Das is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the author of Neoliberalism and the Transforming Left in India: A Contradictory Manifesto (2018), also published by Routledge. Nilotpal Kumar is an Associate Professor at the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India. He is the author of Unravelling Farmer suicides in India: Egoism and Masculinity in Peasant Life (2017).