Logics of Dispossession: Governing By Eviction in Indian Cities
Liza Weinstein traces the history of eviction as a tool of Indian city governance, from colonial rule through developmental state-building to present neoliberal policy, drawing on fieldwork, archives and over a thousand cases. AI summary of the listing
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A new “bulldozer politics” has taken hold in many Indian cities, destroying neighborhoods and displacing city residents as it pursues a global city aesthetic. Presentist accounts might explain these evictions as emergent modes of capital accumulation, but Logics of Dispossession challenges that story and situates these acts in a longer historical durée. Employing a comparative genealogical approach to historical…
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