Properties of Rent - Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi

It is a study of two of Delhi's urban villages and their transition into contemporary urban political economy through rent.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

This book brings rent to the forefront of an urban discourse using ethnography. It studies how vernacular forms of capitalism and its various affects shape up in opposition to both state, finance capital and the city in contemporary urban Delhi.

Product details

• Authors: Sushmita Pati, Pati Sushmita Pati
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781316517277
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51727-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General