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Speculative urbanism constructing entrepreneurial subjects in India

Tripathy, Priyam

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Title
Speculative urbanism constructing entrepreneurial subjects in India
Author(s)
Tripathy, Priyam
Issue Date
2018-11-26
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Wilson, David
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Wilson, David
Committee Member(s)
  • Jefferson, Brian Jordan
  • Miraftab, Faranak
  • Birkenholtz, Trevor
Department of Study
Geography & Geographic InfoSci
Discipline
Geography
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Date of Ingest
2019-02-07T20:35:59Z
Keyword(s)
Speculative Urbanization, Delhi, Global South, Subject-making, Neoliberal Governances
Abstract
My dissertation examines how current governances in cities of India are involved in engineering a new politics, i.e. the sculpting of civic subjects. This agenda, to sculpt civic subjects by entrepreneurializing spaces, is relatively new. I chronicle that beneath this political maneuver to re-energize cities lies a strategic rationale to alter the socio-spatial character of the city, to reshape demographics. I reveal that at the core of this neoliberal project lie two relational processes: first, a material drive to acquire land from villages situated in the peripheries of cities; second, a discursive drive to construct narratives of “entrepreneurial” and “global” cities that deploy new subject positions. The results suggest that sculpting new civic subjects represents a meaningful extension of neoliberalism’s tentacles to the most everyday corners of local social life. This neoliberal project moves beyond the economic realm to seize and re-work the most liminal of grounded settings: the local habitus.
Graduation Semester
2018-12
Type of Resource
text
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Copyright 2018, Priyam Tripathy

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