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 for the new millennium -- where, at a moment of
liberalization, the hegemony of poverty is quietly reproduced. An
ethnography of urban development in Calcutta, Roy's book explores
the dynamics of class and gender in the persistence of poverty.
City Requiem, Calcutta emphasizes how gender itself is
spatialized, and how gender relations are negotiated within the
geopolitics of modernity and through the everyday practices of
territory. Thus Roy shows how urban developmentalism, in its
populist guise, reproduces the relations of masculinist patronage,
and, in its entrepreneurial guise, seeks to reclaim a bourgeois
Calcutta, gentlemanly in its nostalgias. In doing so, her work
expands the field of poverty studies by showing how a politics of
poverty is also a poverty of knowledge, a construction and
management of social and spatial categories.
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