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Rule by aesthetics : world-class city making in Delhi / D. Asher Ghertner.

By: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]Description: ix, 252 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199385560 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780199385577 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1216 GHE 23
LOC classification:
  • HT169.I52 D446 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Contents Acknowledgments; Note on translation and transliteration; Introduction; 1. World-class city making; 2. Gentrifying the state: Governing through property; 3. Nuisance talk: From sensory disgust to urban abjection; 4. Aesthetic criminalization: The nuisance of slums; 5. World-class detritus: The sense of unbelonging; 6. The propriety of property: Resettlement and the pursuit of belonging; 7. Conclusion; Notes; References.
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Contents
Acknowledgments;
Note on translation and transliteration;
Introduction;
1. World-class city making;
2. Gentrifying the state: Governing through property;
3. Nuisance talk: From sensory disgust to urban abjection;
4. Aesthetic criminalization: The nuisance of slums;
5. World-class detritus: The sense of unbelonging;
6. The propriety of property: Resettlement and the pursuit of belonging;
7. Conclusion;
Notes;
References.