Neoliberalising the `urban': new geographies of power and injustice in Indian cities
- 2009
- p.95-107.
- 30 May
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.