Neoliberalising the `urban': new geographies of power and injustice in Indian cities
By: Banerjee Guha, Swapna.
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ArticlePublisher: 2009Description: p.95-107.Subject(s): Urban development - India | Urban development
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Economic and Political WeeklySummary: An adequate understanding of the contemporary neoliberal urban process requires a grasp of its politico-economic ideological framework, multi-scalar institutional forms, diverse socio-political links and multiple contradictions. This paper examines the active engagement of neoliberalism that is not only molding the concept of "urban", but is simultaneously intensifying uneveness in inter-urban and intra-urban development. It focuses on the National Urban Renewal Mission, the official carrier of neoliberal urbanism, and its various implications. The paper illustrates the process of restructuring in a few cities in different states, most importantly, in Mumbai, the country's budding "international financial centre", with a focus n specific "development" projects. - Reproduced.
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An adequate understanding of the contemporary neoliberal urban process requires a grasp of its politico-economic ideological framework, multi-scalar institutional forms, diverse socio-political links and multiple contradictions. This paper examines the active engagement of neoliberalism that is not only molding the concept of "urban", but is simultaneously intensifying uneveness in inter-urban and intra-urban development. It focuses on the National Urban Renewal Mission, the official carrier of neoliberal urbanism, and its various implications. The paper illustrates the process of restructuring in a few cities in different states, most importantly, in Mumbai, the country's budding "international financial centre", with a focus n specific "development" projects. - Reproduced.
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