Urbanizing the Future
A New City Project in Agrarian South India
Will be published approx. on 1. May 2026
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-1-83695-473-6 (ISBN)
Description
Speaks to discussions on land and development in India and the global South
The Amaravati ‘new city’ project exemplifies a model of development seen across much of the global South, as well as the hegemonic vision of India’s future that is promoted by the current regime and India’s capitalist class.
The disruptions and conflicts engendered by the project, and its ultimate collapse, illustrate the dispossessions and disruptions that are often engendered by this paradigm of development.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Library binding
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
566 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83695-473-6 (9781836954736)
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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).