Markets, capitalism and urban space in India : Right to sell /
Acharya, Anirban,
Markets, capitalism and urban space in India : Right to sell / Anirban Acharya. - viii, 230 pages ; 24 cm - Routledge research on urban Asia . - Routledge research on urban Asia series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This book analyses the question of the right to the city, informal economies and the non-western shape of neoliberal governance in India through a new analytic: the right to sell. The book examines why and how states attempt to curb, control, and eliminate markets of urban informal street vendors. Focusing on Kolkata, the author provides a theoretical explanation of this puzzle by distilling and analysing the inherent tensions among the constitutive elements of neoliberal governance, namely, growth imperative, market activism, and corporatization, and demonstrates its implications for the formal/informal boundaries of the economy. A useful addition to the existing literatures on the right to the city, informal economies, and the shapes that neoliberalism takes in the non-west, the book provides a non-western counter to accounts of neoliberalism and will be of interest to academics working in the fields of South Asian Studies, Urban Studies, and Political Economy"--
9780367465728 9781032281131 (pbk.)
2021060617
Public spaces--India.
Urban policy--India.
City planning--India.
HT147.I4 / A23 2022
307.12160954 ACH / 023147
Markets, capitalism and urban space in India : Right to sell / Anirban Acharya. - viii, 230 pages ; 24 cm - Routledge research on urban Asia . - Routledge research on urban Asia series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments; Part I Anxiety of Markets Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Neoliberalism, (In)formality, and Markets; Part II Politics of Street Vending Chapter 3: Selling of Spaces/Spaces of Selling; Chapter 4: Politics of Disruption; Part III Conflicts/Compromise Chapter 5: Rights or Rightlessness?; Chapter 6: Conclusion
"This book analyses the question of the right to the city, informal economies and the non-western shape of neoliberal governance in India through a new analytic: the right to sell. The book examines why and how states attempt to curb, control, and eliminate markets of urban informal street vendors. Focusing on Kolkata, the author provides a theoretical explanation of this puzzle by distilling and analysing the inherent tensions among the constitutive elements of neoliberal governance, namely, growth imperative, market activism, and corporatization, and demonstrates its implications for the formal/informal boundaries of the economy. A useful addition to the existing literatures on the right to the city, informal economies, and the shapes that neoliberalism takes in the non-west, the book provides a non-western counter to accounts of neoliberalism and will be of interest to academics working in the fields of South Asian Studies, Urban Studies, and Political Economy"--
9780367465728 9781032281131 (pbk.)
2021060617
Public spaces--India.
Urban policy--India.
City planning--India.
HT147.I4 / A23 2022
307.12160954 ACH / 023147