Urban Utopias

Urban Utopias

Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia

Kuldova, Tereza; Varghese, Mathew A.

Springer International Publishing AG

08/2018

289

Mole

Inglês

9783319837840

15 a 20 dias

454

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1. Introduction: Urban Utopias - Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal India and Sri Lanka.- 2. The Impossibility of World Class Slum Free Indian Cities and the Fantasy of 'Two Indias'.- 3. Guarded Luxotopias and Expulsions in New Delhi: Aesthetics and Ideology of Outer and Inner Spaces of an Urban Utopia.- 4. Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa.- 5. Vikasanam: The Expansionist Choreography of Space-Making in Kerala.- 6. Cities of Neoliberal Future: Urban Utopia in Indian Science Fiction Cinema.- 7. Manifesting Sri Lankan Megalomania - the Rajapakses' Vision of Empire and of a Clean Colombo.- 8. A Modern Chakravartin: Mayawati's New Buddhist Visual Culture.- 9. Past as Metaphor in the New Utopian Imaginations of Heritage in Kerala.- 10. Excavating the City: Metro Rail Construction and Imagination of Past in Contemporary Jaipur.- 11. Utopia or Elsewhere: Queer Modernities in Small Town West Bengal.- 12. Utopia Interrupted: Indian Sex/Gender Dissident Activism and The Everyday Search for a Life Worth Living.- 13. 'Queerness's Domain? Queer Negotiations, Utopian Visions, and the Failures of Heterotopias in Bangalore.- 14. Philosophical Epilogue.
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South Asia;Heritage studies;Aesthetic theory;Utopian processes;Popular cutlure