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Making the Modern Slum

Af: Sheetal Chhabria Engelsk Paperback
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Making the Modern Slum

Af: Sheetal Chhabria Engelsk Paperback
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify interventions that delimited the city as a distinct object and progressively excluded laborers and migrants from it. Town planners, financiers, and property developers joined forces to secure the city as a space for commerce and encoded shelter types as legitimate or illegitimate. By the early twentieth century, the slum emerged as a particularly useful category of stigmatization that would animate city-making projects in subsequent decades. Sheetal Chhabria locates the origins of Bombay’s now infamous “slum problem” in the broader histories of colonialism and capitalism. She not only challenges assumptions about colonial urbanization and cities in the global south, but also provides a new analytical approach to urban history. Making the Modern Slum shows how the wellbeing of the city–rather than of its people–became an increasingly urgent goal of government, positioning agrarian distress, famished migrants, and the laboring poor as threats to be contained or excluded.
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify interventions that delimited the city as a distinct object and progressively excluded laborers and migrants from it. Town planners, financiers, and property developers joined forces to secure the city as a space for commerce and encoded shelter types as legitimate or illegitimate. By the early twentieth century, the slum emerged as a particularly useful category of stigmatization that would animate city-making projects in subsequent decades. Sheetal Chhabria locates the origins of Bombay’s now infamous “slum problem” in the broader histories of colonialism and capitalism. She not only challenges assumptions about colonial urbanization and cities in the global south, but also provides a new analytical approach to urban history. Making the Modern Slum shows how the wellbeing of the city–rather than of its people–became an increasingly urgent goal of government, positioning agrarian distress, famished migrants, and the laboring poor as threats to be contained or excluded.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9780295746272
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0295746270
Kategori: Bysamfund
Udg. Dato: 6 dec 2019
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 153mm
Højde: 228mm
Forlag: University of Washington Press
Oplagsdato: 6 dec 2019
Forfatter(e): Sheetal Chhabria
Forfatter(e) Sheetal Chhabria


Kategori Bysamfund


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 256


Udgave


Længde 21mm


Bredde 153mm


Højde 228mm


Udg. Dato 6 dec 2019


Oplagsdato 6 dec 2019

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