Landscapes of Accumulation
Over the past few decades, India has experienced a sudden and spectacular urban transformation. Gleaming business complexes encroach on fields and villages. Giant condominium communities offer gated security, indoor gyms, and pristine pools. Spacious, air-conditioned malls have sprung up alongside open-air markets. In Landscapes of Accumulation, Llerena Guiu Searle examines Indiaas booming developments and offers a nuanced ethnographic treatment of late capitalism. Indiaas land, she shows, is rapidly transforming from a site of agricultural and industrial production to an international financial resource. Drawing on intensive fieldwork with investors, developers, real estate agents, and others, Searle documents the new private sector partnerships and practices that are transforming Indiaas built environment, as well as widely shared stories of growth and development that themselves create self-fulfilling prophecies of success. As a result, Indiaas cities are becoming ever more inaccessible to the countryas poor. Landscapes of Accumulation will be a welcome contribution to the international study of neoliberalism, finance, and urban development and will be of particular interest to those studying rapidaand perhaps unsustainableadevelopment across the Global South.Characteristics of real estate firmsapractitionersa#39; varied backgrounds, their association with the black economy, and their ... to do interior decorating in late 1970s and then started construction firms in Oman, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.
| Title | : | Landscapes of Accumulation |
| Author | : | Llerena Guiu Searle |
| Publisher | : | University of Chicago Press - 2016-09-19 |
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