{"product_id":"the-politics-of-community-making-in-new-urban-india-illiberal-spaces-illiberal-cities-9780367517960","title":"The Politics of Community-Making in New Urban India: Illiberal Spaces, Illiberal Cities","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ritanjan Das\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: World - Asian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the relationship between the production of new urban spaces and illiberal community-making in contemporary India. It is based on an ethnographic study in Noida, a city at the eastern fringe of the state of Uttar Pradesh, bordering national capital Delhi. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book demonstrates a flexible planning approach being central to the entrepreneurial turn in India's post-liberalisation urbanisation, whereby a small-scale industrial township is transformed into a real-estate driven modern city. Its real point of departure, however, is in the argument that this turn can enable a form of illiberal community-making in new cities that are quite different from older metropolises. Exclusivist forms of solidarity and symbolic boundary construction - stemming from the differences across communities as well as their internal heterogeneities - form the crux of this process, which is examined in three distinct but often interspersed socio-spatial forms: planned middle-class residential quarters, 'urban villages' and migrant squatter colonies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book combines radical geographical conceptualisations of social production of space and neoliberal urbanism with sociological and anthropological approaches to urban community-making. It will be of interest to researchers in development studies, sociology, urban studies, as well as readers interested in society and politics of contemporary India\/South Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45242388250775,"sku":"9780367517960","price":14551.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780367517960.webp?v=1769232051","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-politics-of-community-making-in-new-urban-india-illiberal-spaces-illiberal-cities-9780367517960","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}