Properties of Rent : Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi Hardback
by Sushmita Pati
Part of the Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches series
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We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion.
What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa?
This book looks at the spatial transformation of villages brought into the Delhi's urban fray in the 1950s.
As these villages transform physically; their residents, an agrarian-pastoralist community - the Jats - also transform into dabblers in real estate.
A study of two villages - Munirka and Shahpur Jat - both in the heart of bustling urban economies of Delhi, reveal that it is 'rent' that could define this suburbanisation. 'Bhaichara', once a form of land ownership in colonial times, transforms into an affective claim of belonging, and managing urban property in the face of a steady onslaught from the 'city'.
Properties of Rent is a study of how vernacular form of capitalism and its various affects shape up in opposition to both state, finance capital and the city in contemporary urban Delhi.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:25/08/2022
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- ISBN:9781316517277
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:25/08/2022
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- ISBN:9781316517277
