City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty Volume 10
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Uses Calcutta as a site for the exploration of persistent structures of deprivation and want. Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta; overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban labor markets in a daily commute against hunger; land is settled and claimed in a complex choreography of squatting and evictions: such, Ananya Roy contends, are the distinctive spaces of a communism...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0816639337
ISBN13:9780816639335
Release Date:October 2002
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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