Subaltern Frontiers

Vorwort
The book examines how globalised urban labour and property markets are produced by agrarian actors, institutions, spaces and territories.

Autorentext
Thomas Cowan is Assistant Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham. His research interests are urban geography, South Asian political economy, labour studies, and economic development and growth.

Klappentext

It is the story of India's urban transformation, examining how the post-liberalisation urban project has been shaped through subaltern histories, logics and subjects. The subaltern frontiers play a role in transferring commonly-owned agricultural land into legible property, and shaping cheap, exploitable migrant labour that the city depends on.

Inhalt
Dedication; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Translations; Foreword; List of Figures; Introduction: Antinomies of an agrarian city; 1. The experiment; 2. The village in the city; 3. The plot; 4. The bureaucrat and the survey; 5. The tenement; 6. The camp; Conclusion: Urban limits; Index.