{"product_id":"logics-of-dispossession-9780520423626","title":"Logics of Dispossession","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 \u003ci\u003eLogics of Dispossession\u003c\/i\u003e challenges that story and situates these acts in a longer historical \u003ci\u003edurée\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmploying 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":"Liza Weinstein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48311773823227,"sku":"9780520423626","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_6856465b-f1b3-471c-85f2-8cd15af32ce7.jpg?v=1780467979","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/logics-of-dispossession-9780520423626","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}