Urbanizing the Future: A New City Project in Agrarian South India

Upadhya, Carol

ISBN 10 : 1836954735 ISBN 13 : 9781836954736

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2026

Synopsis

Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh, exemplifies India’s policy thrust on urbanization. Tracing the rise, abandonment and revival of Amaravati, Urbanizing the Future delves into the ambitious plan to build a brand-new city in an agrarian landscape. The book unpacks the entanglements of caste, capital, and state power in shaping development through a regional lens. Urbanizing the Future highlights the disruptions and conflicts engendered by mega-projects as agricultural land is converted into urban real estate. Combining political economy and history with long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the Amaravati story offers a compelling critique of planned urbanization as a contested and uneven process in contemporary India.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carol Upadhya is Honorary Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India, where she leads the Urban & Mobility Studies Programme. Her latest publication is Chronicles of a Global City: Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru, co-edited with Vinay Gidwani and Michael Goldman (2024). She is also the author of Reengineering India: Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy (2016) and co-editor of Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics (2018).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1836954735
• ISBN 13: 9781836954736
• Reliure: Belle reliure
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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