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Landscapes of accumulation : real estate and the neoliberal imagination in contemporary India / Llerena Guiu Searle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Searle, Llerena Guiu, author.
- Series:
- South Asia across the disciplines
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Real property--India.
- Real property.
- Economic development--India.
- Economic development.
- India--Economic conditions--21st century.
- India.
- Economic conditions.
- Economic history.
- Physical Description:
- x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Over the past few decades, India has experienced a sudden and spectacular urban transformation. Gleaming business complexes encroach on fields and villages. Giant condominium communities offer gated security, indoor gyms, and pristine pools. Spacious, air-conditioned malls have sprung up alongside open-air markets. In Landscapes of Accumulation, Llerena Guiu Searle examines India's booming developments and offers a nuanced ethnographic treatment of late capitalism. India's land, she shows, is rapidly transforming from a site of agricultural and industrial production to an international financial resource. Drawing on intensive fieldwork with investors, developers, real estate agents, and others, Searle documents the new private sector partnerships and practices that are transforming India's built environment, as well as widely shared stories of growth and development that themselves create self-fulfilling prophecies of success. As a result, India's cities are becoming ever more inaccessible to the country's poor.
- Contents:
- Introduction: building stories
- Routes of accumulation
- Speculating on Indian futures
- The India story
- Betting on the future
- Constructing consumer India
- Conflict and commensuration
- Transparency and control
- Developers' quest for credibility and capital
- Quality projects I: constructing authority
- Quality projects II: transforming practices.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226384900
- 022638490X
- 9780226385068
- 022638506X
- OCLC:
- 936350554
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