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ISBN-10 :  3319476230 

ISBN-13 : 9783319476230

Author:  Tereza Kuldova 

This book brings anthropologists and critical theorists together in order to investigate utopian visions of the future in the neoliberal cities of India and Sri Lanka. Arguing for the priority of materiality in any analysis of contemporary ideology, the authors explore urban construction projects, special economic zones, fashion ramps, films, archaeological excavations, and various queer spaces. In the process, they reveal how diverse co-existing utopian visions are entangled with local politics and global capital, and show how these utopian visions are at once driven by visions of excess and by increasing expulsions. It’s a dystopia already in the making – one marred by land grabs and forced evictions, rising inequality, and the loss of urbanity and civility.

Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Urban Utopias—Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal India and Sri Lanka
Futuristic Visions of Urbanity and Socio-Economic Expulsions
Urban Megalomaniac Visions and Heritage Utopias
Urban Queer Utopias and Bodily Expulsions
References
Part I: Futuristic Visions of Urbanity and Socio-Economic Expulsions
Chapter 2: The Impossibility of World-Class Slum-Free Indian Cities and the Fantasy of ‘Two In
Introduction: World-Class Slum-Free Cities
Žižekian Ideological Critique
The Fantasies of Two Indias
‘Other India as Political Society and the Survival Economy’
‘Other India as “Leash”’
Discussion
Conclusion: Escaping Neoliberal Urban Fantasies
References
Chapter 3: Guarded Luxotopias and Expulsions in New Delhi: Aesthetics and Ideology of Outer and
Luxotopias as a Form of Aesthetic Governance
Luxotopia as a Developmental Paradigm: The Loss of Urbanity and Security
Fashionable Luxotopias and the Sources of Pride of the Neo-Aristocracy
Conclusion: Haunted Luxotopias
Notes
References
Chapter 4: Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa
Growth Infrastructures and ‘New India’
Promoting Airport Development
Mopa: Redefining ‘Golden Goa’
‘Green Goa’
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 5: Vikasanam: The Expansionist Choreography of Space-Making in Kerala
Orders in Search for Cities: A Take from Edachira
Yahiya of Edachira
Vikasanam: The Contemporary Expansive Logic
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 6: Cities of Neoliberal Future: Urban Utopia in Indian Science Fiction Cinema
Cityscape in Bollywood Cinema
City Spaces in a Temporal Continuum
Neoliberalism and Urban Utopias
Ambivalences of the Neoliberal-Hindu Nation
Conclusion
Note
References
Part II: Urban Megalomaniac Visions and Heritage Utopias
Chapter 7: Manifesting Sri Lankan Megalomania: The Rajapakses’ Vision of Empire and of a Clea
Relocating the Undesirables
The Rajapakses’ Will to Power and Militarization of Society
Is It Neoliberalism?
Worlding Practices—A Bag of Mixed Intentions?
The Utopia of Empire and Its Financiers
A Preliminary Postscript
Notes
References
Chapter 8: A Modern Chakravartin: Mayawati’s New Buddhist Visual Culture
Memorializing Ambedkar and Mayawati Through Appropriations of Ancient Indian Buddhist Art
A Noble Past: Navayāna Buddhism and Dalit “Homeplaces”
Mayawati’s Homeplaces in U.P. and Second Phase New Buddhist Imagery
The Ambedkar Memorial
The Prerna Sthal
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 9: Past as a Metaphor in the New Utopian Imaginations of Heritage in Kerala
Kochi as Host City
Kochi and the Cosmopolitan Narrative
Configuring Kochi-Muziris
New Narratives of a Past Utopia: Exclusions and Appropriations
Notes
References
Chapter 10: Excavating the City: Metro Rail Construction and Imagination of Past in Contemporary
Urban Development and Trope of ‘Heritage’
Reordering Pasts in Jaipur: Official and Popular Narratives
Conclusion
Notes
References
Reports
Part III: Urban Queer Utopias and Bodily Expulsions
Chapter 11: Utopia or Elsewhere: Queer Modernities in Small Town West Bengal
Indian Utopias: Limits and Excess
Space, Future, Child
The City or the Self?
Room to Breathe
References
Chapter 12: Utopia Interrupted: Indian Sex/Gender Dissident Activism and the Everyday Search for 
The problem: ‘Myths, ideologies and illusions are resistant to knowledge’
Euphoria for a New India?
Women in Public
Section 377, Discretion, Outing and Privacy
Anil/Mariya: ‘When we embrace this freedom, the intolerant society can brutally end us’
‘What Kind of Future?’
Trading off: The Modest Goal of a Life Worth Living
Dented Utopias
Notes
References
Chapter 13: Queerness’s Domain?: Queer Negotiations, Utopian Visions and the Failures of Hetero
Introduction: The Power of the Middle Class in Brave ‘New’ India
Queer and/or Middle Class? The Paradox of Position
The New Indian Woman and Homonational Consumerism
Queer heterotopias and spaces to breath
Violence, rejections and failures of heterotopias
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 14: Epilogue: The Promise of Urbanity—How the City Makes Life Worth Living

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