Book Adda: Logics of Dispossession: Governing by Eviction in Indian Cities with Liza Weinstein
Join us for Book Adda: Logics of Dispossession: Governing by Eviction in Indian Cities with Liza Weinstein.Liza Weinstein is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University and editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR). She is also author of The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai.
About the Book
A new “bulldozer politics” has taken hold in many Indian cities, destroying neighborhoods and displacing city residents as it pursues a global city aesthetic. Presentist accounts might explain these evictions as emergent modes of capital accumulation, but Logics of Dispossession challenges that story and situates these acts in a longer historical durée.
Employing a comparative genealogical approach to historical analysis, Liza Weinstein traces the Indian government’s power to evict—from its beginnings in the colonial capitals of the British Raj, to developmental state-building projects and the rise of ethnonationalist politics, up to the present neoliberal conjuncture. Drawing on multicity fieldwork, archival research, and a database of more than a thousand eviction cases, Weinstein argues that evictions constitute a historically entrenched tool of city governance, motivated by a shifting set of intersecting, often contradictory logics that have accumulated over time and in locally specific ways across Indian cities aspiring to be world-class.
Commentators:
Karen Coelho is an Associate Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) in Chennai, India. A socio-cultural anthropologist, her research focuses on urban anthropology, housing and resettlement, urban infrastructure, informal settlements, and the governance of Indian cities. Her work draws extensively on ethnographic research in Chennai and examines the experiences of working-class and marginalized urban communities.
Josh Pacewicz is an associate Professor of Sociology at Brown University. His work focuses broadly on American statecraft and subnational governance, especially the interplay between federal policy and party politics, municipal finance, political advocacy and expertise, and more generally the democratic process. He is the author of Partisans and Partners: The Politics of the post-Keynesian Society which examined municipal and partisan politics in two Rust Belt cities during the 2008 and 2012 election cycles. His forthcoming book, Divided States, is a mixed methods study of bureaucrats, advocates, lobbyists and elected officials in several states, which speaks to growing divergence in state-level policy in the United States. Receive SMS online on sms24.me
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