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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461103703321

Autore

Chatterjee Ipsita

Titolo

Displacement, revolution, and the new urban condition : theories and case studies / / Ipsita Chatterjee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi : , : SAGE, , 2016

ISBN

93-5150-420-4

93-5150-778-5

93-5150-177-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Disciplina

307.2

Soggetti

Forced migration - Social aspects - Developing countries

Urbanization - Developing countries - Social aspects

Economic development projects - Developing countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This title attempts to theorise the contemporary urban condition by arguing that displacement forms the central logic of urban exploitation. In order to theorise urban exploitation it is important to understand who is having to move and where, who is being resettled and how, and how is this process of displacing and resettling oppressive.