Logics of Dispossession : Governing by Eviction in Indian Cities.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinstein, Liza.

Series:

IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban policy.

Indian homeless persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2026.

Summary:

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 analysis, Liza Weinstein traces the Indian government's power to evict--from its beginnings in the colonial capitals of the British Raj, to developmental state-building projects and the rise of ethnonationalist politics, up to the present neoliberal conjuncture. Drawing on multicity fieldwork, archival research, and a database of more than a thousand eviction cases, Weinstein argues that evictions constitute a historically entrenched tool of city governance, motivated by a shifting set of intersecting, often contradictory logics that have accumulated over time and in locally specific ways across Indian cities aspiring to be world-class.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Genealogies of Dispossession

1. Evictions as Colonial Governing Practice, 1896-1931

2. Citizenship Logics After Independence/Partition, 1947-1955

3. Emergency Evictions, Electoral Logics, 1975-1985

4. Spotlight Scapegoating After Ayodhya, 1992-2002

5. Cumulative Logics of Neoliberal Evictions, 2000-2020

Conclusion: Historicizing Dispossession

Notes

References

Index.

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ISBN:

9780520423633

OCLC:

1591016551