Urban Utopias : Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kuldova, Tereza (Editor), Varghese, Mathew A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ethnology > Asia.; Ethnology.; Sociology, Urban.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319476230
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47623-0
• Physical Description: XVIII, 289 p. 13 illus. in color. online resource.

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, s...