Speculative urbanism constructing entrepreneurial subjects in India

Tripathy, Priyam

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Title

Speculative urbanism constructing entrepreneurial subjects in India

Author(s)

Tripathy, Priyam

Issue Date

2018-11-26

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Wilson, David

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Wilson, David

Committee Member(s)

• Jefferson, Brian Jordan
• Miraftab, Faranak
• Birkenholtz, Trevor

Department of Study

Geography & Geographic InfoSci

Discipline

Geography

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

Speculative Urbanization, Delhi, Global South, Subject-making, Neoliberal Governances

Abstract

My dissertation examines how current governances in cities of India are involved in engineering a new politics, i.e. the sculpting of civic subjects. This agenda, to sculpt civic subjects by entrepreneurializing spaces, is relatively new. I chronicle that beneath this political maneuver to re-energize cities lies a strategic rationale to alter the socio-spatial character of the city, to reshape demographics. I reveal that at the core of this neoliberal project lie two relational processes: first, a material drive to acquire land from villages situated in the peripheries of cities; second, a discursive drive to construct narratives of “entrepreneurial” and “global” cities that deploy new subject positions. The results suggest that sculpting new civic subjects represents a meaningful extension of neoliberalism’s tentacles to the most everyday corners of local social life. This neoliberal project moves beyond the economic realm to seize and re-work the most liminal of grounded settings: the local habitus.

Graduation Semester

2018-12

Type of Resource

text

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