City Requiem, Calcutta emphasizes how gender itself is spatialized, and how gender relations are negotiated within the geopolitics of modernity and through the everyday practices of territory. Thus Roy shows how urban developmentalism, in its populist guise, reproduces the relations of masculinist patronage, and, in its entrepreneurial guise, seeks to reclaim a bourgeois Calcutta, gentlemanly in its nostalgias. In doing so, her work expands the field of poverty studies by showing how a politics of poverty is also a poverty of knowledge, a construction and management of social and spatial categories.
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City Requiem, Calcutta emphasizes how gender itself is spatialized, and how gender relations are negotiated within the geopolitics of modernity and through the everyday practices of territory. Thus Roy shows how urban developmentalism, in its populist guise, reproduces the relations of masculinist patronage, and, in its entrepreneurial guise, seeks to reclaim a bourgeois Calcutta, gentlemanly in its nostalgias. In doing so, her work expands the field of poverty studies by showing how a politics of poverty is also a poverty of knowledge, a construction and management of social and spatial categories.
Imprint | University of Minnesota Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Globalization and Community |
Release date | October 2002 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | October 2002 |
Authors | Ananya Roy |
Dimensions | 229 x 149 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 304 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8166-3933-5 |
Barcode | 9780816639335 |
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LSN | 0-8166-3933-7 |