Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities
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Book Details
Author(s)
Stephen Legg
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1405156325
ISBN-13
9781405156325
Marketplace
India 🇮🇳
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Description
Examines the residential, policed, and infrastructural landscapes of New and Old Delhi under British Rule.
- The first book of its kind to present a comparative history of New and Old Delhi
- Draws on the governmentality theories and methodologies presented in Michel Foucault’s lecture courses
- Looks at problems of social and racial segregation, the policing of the cities, and biopolitical needs in urban settings
- Undertakes a critique of colonial governmentality on the basis of the lived spaces of everyday life
