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OverviewUses Calcutta as a site for the exploration of persistent structures of deprivation and want. Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta; overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban labor markets in a daily commute against hunger; land is settled and claimed in a complex choreography of squatting and evictions: such, Ananya Roy contends, are the distinctive spaces of a communism for the new millennium-where, at a moment of liberalization, the hegemony of poverty is quietly reproduced. An ethnography of urban development in Calcutta, Roy’s book explores the dynamics of class and gender in the persistence of poverty. City Requiem, Calcutta emphasizes how gender itself is spatialized and how gender relations are negotiated through the everyday practices of territory. Thus Roy shows how urban developmentalism, in its populist guise, reproduces the relations of masculinist patronage, and, in its entrepreneurial guise, seeks to reclaim a bourgeois Calcutta, gentlemanly in its nostalgias. In doing so, her work expands the field of poverty studies by showing how a politics of poverty is also a poverty of knowledge, a construction and management of social and spatial categories. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ananya RoyPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Volume: 10.00 Dimensions: Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.530kg ISBN: 9780816639328ISBN 10: 0816639329 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 24 October 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAnanya Roy is assistant professor of urban studies in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |