Beyond Kolkata
Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination
Ishita Dey, Ranabir Samaddar & Suhit K. Sen
Beyond Kolkata
Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination
Ishita Dey, Ranabir Samaddar & Suhit K. Sen
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This book examines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township called New Town in Rajarhat near Kolkata as a hi-tech ‘utopian’ city for the opulent, revealing the working of primitive, exploitative modes of capital accumulation at the heart of this post-colonial, neo-liberal urban development.
Ishita Dey is a member of the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, and doctoral scholar, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi, India. Ranabir Samaddar is Director, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India. Suhit K. Sen is Senior Researcher, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India.