{"product_id":"9780520423626","title":"Logics of Dispossession : Governing by Eviction in Indian Cities (Ijurr Studies in Urban and Social Change)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new “bulldozer politics” has taken hold in many Indian cities, destroying neighborhoods and displacing city residents as it pursues a global city aesthetic. Presentist accounts might explain these evictions as emergent modes of capital accumulation, but Logics of Dispossession challenges that story and situates these acts in a longer historical durée.  Employing a comparative genealogical approach to historical analysis, Liza Weinstein traces the Indian government’s power to evict—from its beginnings in the colonial capitals of the British Raj, to developmental state-building projects and the rise of ethnonationalist politics, up to the present neoliberal conjuncture. Drawing on multicity fieldwork, archival research, and a database of more than a thousand eviction cases, Weinstein argues that evictions constitute a historically entrenched tool of city governance, motivated by a shifting set of intersecting, often contradictory logics that have accumulated over time and in locally specific ways across Indian cities aspiring to be world-class.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48566294610155,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":54.84,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780520423626-1.jpg?v=1789359775","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9780520423626","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}