Landscapes-of-accumulation

Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India

landscapes-of-accumulationBy Llerena Guiu Searle ’99. University of Chicago Press, September 2016. Available on Amazon. Over the past few decades, India has experienced a sudden and spectacular urban transformation. Gleaming business complexes encroach on fields and villages. Giant condominium communities offer gated security, indoor gyms, and pristine pools. Spacious, air-conditioned malls have sprung up alongside open-air markets. In Landscapes of Accumulation, Llerena Guiu Searle examines India’s booming developments and offers a nuanced ethnographic treatment of late capitalism.

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