Tereza (Hrsg.) Kuldova

Urban Utopias

Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Varghese, Mathew A. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-319-47622-3
EAN: 9783319476223
Produktnummer: 20665041
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 308 S.
Masse: H21.9 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.4 cm 539 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 539

Über den Autor

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.