This book presents a paradigm shift for gated communities research. Based on contemporary studies from international authors, the chapters suggest that the debate should move away from the hard concept of a gated community to the more fluid one of urban gating. The latter allows…
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- List of images -- Introduction -- New urban politics -- Accumulation, estrangement, and displacement -- Resettlement and the territorialization of exploitation -- Of unruly practices and resistance -- Reversing the arrow? : theory transfer and theor…
This book provides a window into the global urban contradiction through the lens of a Third World city. It is not a book on urban India, or a book on Ahmedabad city, or even a book on the Sabarmati River Front Development (SRFD) project, but it is a book that uses all these lens…
Introduction: Revealing the Paradox -- The Epistemology of Escape and predator epistemology: knowing and failing to know multi-local spatiality -- Modalities of Power: what are the many places for their users, and who can use them? -- Multi-locality as Urbanization -- The Politi…
"The starting point of this book is the observation that there is a discrepancy between the lived reality of human beings and the fabricated, planned and governed 'reality' of the state apparatus at both the local and national level. The book posits multi-locality as an emerging…
"The starting point of this book is the observation that there is a discrepancy between the lived reality of human beings and the fabricated, planned and governed 'reality' of the state apparatus at both the local and national level. The book posits multi-locality as an emerging…
"The starting point of this book is the observation that there is a discrepancy between the lived reality of human beings and the fabricated, planned and governed 'reality' of the state apparatus at both the local and national level. The book posits multi-locality as an emerging…
Incorporating ecosystem services and resilience thinking in the detailed urban planning framework of Stockholm is an important step in providing design solutions for the city's aim of ecosystem based urban transformation. The content of this book was originally produces as a sus…
"Drawing upon historical analysis, ethnographic research and analyses of popular culture, this book brings together two topics that have great bearing on contemporary Indian life but have rarely been discussed within the same analytical framework, namely the cultures of masculin…
Imagining the city as a series of interconnected spaces, the book explores how several such connections - between the home and the street, family and public spaces, religious and non-religious contexts, for example - relate to the topic of masculinity. How do men - elite, subalt…
"Drawing upon historical analysis, ethnographic research and analyses of popular culture, this book brings together two topics that have great bearing on contemporary Indian life but have rarely been discussed within the same analytical framework, namely the cultures of masculin…
"This edited volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with particular focus on festivals and performances in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala. The editors ask how performance practices are affected by urbanisation, the effects of such changes…
"This edited volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with particular focus on festivals and performances in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala. The editors ask how performance practices are affected by urbanisation, the effects of such changes…
"This book explores the relationships between racial segregation, urban governance, and policing in a postindustrial city. Drawing on rich ethnographic data and in-depth interviews, Gordon shows how the police augmented racial inequalities in service provision and social control…
"This book explores the relationships between racial segregation, urban governance, and policing in a postindustrial city. Drawing on rich ethnographic data and in-depth interviews, Gordon shows how the police augmented racial inequalities in service provision and social control…
"This book explores the relationships between racial segregation, urban governance, and policing in a postindustrial city. Drawing on rich ethnographic data and in-depth interviews, Gordon shows how the police augmented racial inequalities in service provision and social control…
Many scholars believe that the modern concentration camp was born during the Cuban war for independence when Spanish authorities ordered civilians living in rural areas to report to the nearest city with a garrison of Spanish troops. But the practice of spatial concentration-gat…
Introduction. Before the camp -- Congregation : urbanization and the construction of the Indian -- Enclosure : the architecture of mestizo conversion -- Segregation : sovereignty, economy, and the problem with mixture -- Collection : imperial botany and racialized life -- Epilog…
