Neo Delhi and the Politics of Postcolonial Urbanism | Politics

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This book is augmented by an interactive website (neodelhi. net). During research trips to Delhi and Gurgaon between 2008 and 2015 the author produced a multi-media urban archive that includes full color photos an essay film ethnographic videos field notes and more pertaining to the arguments and ideas presented in this book. The reader is encouraged to actively engage with the website alongside this text. This book challenges the prevailing metro-centric view of globalization. Rather than privileging the experiences of cities and urban regions in the industrialized world it argues that cities in the so-called developing world present opportunities for scholars to re-think entrenched ideas …