Legg Spaces of Colonialism

Delhi's Urban Governmentalities
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8157-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: RGS-IBG Book Series

Examines the residential, policed, and infrastructural landscapesof New and Old Delhi under British Rule.
* * The first book of its kind to present a comparative history ofNew and Old Delhi
* Draws on the governmentality theories and methodologiespresented in Michel Foucault's lecture courses
* Looks at problems of social and racial segregation, thepolicing of the cities, and biopolitical needs in urbansettings
* Undertakes a critique of colonial governmentality on the basisof the lived spaces of everyday life

Autoren/Hrsg.

Legg, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Abbreviations.
Archival references.
1. Imperial Delhi.
1.1 New Delhi: Showcase of Sovereignty.
1.2 Colonial Governmentality.
2. Residential and Racial Segregation: a SpatialArchaeology.
2.1 The Spatial Administration of Precedence.
2.2 The Spatial Dissolution of Order.
3. Disciplining Delhi.
3.1 New Delhi: Policing the Heart of Empire.
3.2 Anti-colonial nationalism and urban order.
3.3 "Religious Nationalism" and Urban Diagrams.
4. Biopolitics and the Urban Environment.
4.1 Population expansion and urban disorder.
4.2 Congestion relief, calculation, and the "intensitymap".
4.3 The Western Extension, protest, and failed relief.
4.4 Slum clearance and the strictures of imperial finance.
5. Conclusions: within and beyond the city.
5.1 Interlinked landscapes of ordering.
5.2 Beyond colonial Delhi.
Notes.
References.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Legg received his doctorate at the University of Cambridge and now lectures at the University of Nottingham.