Properties of Rent

Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-316-51727-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pati, Sushmita

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; List of maps and figures; Abbreviations; Glossary; Units of measurement; Maps; Introduction; 1. Creating values of land: Law, records and Kabza; 2. From buying land, owning taxis to becoming landlords: The changing economic landscape of villages; 3. Villages of the city: Ordering spaces and aspirations in neoliberal times; 4. In the shadows of the state: Community as a mode of political and economic organisation; 5. Culture, gender and belongingness? City and the violence of rent; 6. The fringes of the cartel: How the marginalised become landlords; 7. The allure of politics: The candidates, the cadre and the euphoria of elections; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Pati, Sushmita
Sushmita Pati teaches political science at National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Her areas of interests are urban politics, political economy and political theory.