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Wilson, David Wilson, David Jefferson, Brian Jordan Miraftab, Faranak Birkenholtz, Trevor Tripathy, Priyam 2019-02-07T20:35:59Z 2019-02-07T20:35:59Z 2021-02-08T10:15:11Z 2018-11-26 2018-12 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. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2020-12-01 The student, Priyam Tripathy, accepted the attached license on 2018-11-19 at 13:42. The student, Priyam Tripathy, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-11-19 at 13:56. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-11-26 at 08:51. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13101 on 2019-02-07 at 14:17:37 Made available in DSpace on 2019-02-07T20:35:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 TRIPATHY-DISSERTATION-2018.pdf: 95960839 bytes, checksum: 7f1597476411af3af06dd05c89f2079e (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4212 bytes, checksum: dbc27d8352755a38a26419f80466bd95 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-11-26 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 109823 Lift date: 2021-02-07T20:36:09Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 109823 Lift date: 2021-02-07T20:39:46Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 109823 Lift date: 2021-02-07T20:44:35Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 109823 on 2021-02-08T10:15:11Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/102799 en Copyright 2018, Priyam Tripathy Speculative Urbanization, Delhi, Global South, Subject-making, Neoliberal Governances Speculative urbanism constructing entrepreneurial subjects in India text text Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Geography & Geographic InfoSci Geography Dissertation