Markets, Capitalism and Urban Space in India

Right to Sell
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-28113-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

Reihe: Routledge Research on Urban Asia

This book analyses the question of the right to the city, informal economies and the non-western shape of neoliberal governance in India through a new analytic: the right to sell.

The book examines why and how states attempt to curb, control, and eliminate markets of urban informal street vendors. Focusing on Kolkata, the author provides a theoretical explanation of this puzzle by distilling and analysing the inherent tensions among the constitutive elements of neoliberal governance, namely, growth imperative, market activism, and corporatization, and demonstrates its implications for the formal/informal boundaries of the economy.

A useful addition to the existing literatures on the right to the city, informal economies, and the shapes that neoliberalism takes in the non-west, the book provides a non-western counter to accounts of neoliberalism and will be of interest to academics working in the fields of South Asian Studies, Urban Studies, and Political Economy.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Acharya, Anirban

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; PART I Anxiety of Markets Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Neoliberalism, (In)formality, and Markets; PART II Politics of Street Vending Chapter 3: Selling of Spaces/Spaces of Selling; Chapter 4: Politics of Disruption; PART III Conflicts/Compromise Chapter 5: Rights or Rightlessness?; Chapter 6: Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Anirban Acharya is Professor of Practice in Political Science, Le Moyne College, USA.