1st Edition
Markets, Capitalism and Urban Space in India Right to Sell
By Anirban Acharya
Copyright 2023
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyses the question of the right to the city, informal economies and the non-western shape of neoliberal governance in India through a new analytic: the right to sell.
The book examines why and how states attempt to curb, control, and eliminate markets of urban informal street vendors. Focusing on Kolkata, the author provides a theoretical explanation of this puzzle by distilling... Read more
Acknowledgments; PART I Anxiety of Markets Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Neoliberalism, (In)formality, and Markets; PART II Politics of Street Vending Chapter 3: Selling of Spaces/Spaces of Selling; Chapter 4: Politics of Disruption; PART III Conflicts/Compromise Chapter 5: Rights or Rightlessness?; Chapter 6: Conclusion
Biography
Anirban Acharya is Professor of Practice in Political Science, Le Moyne College, USA.
