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Rule By Aesthetics - World-Class City Making in Delhi (Paperback)
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Rule By Aesthetics - World-Class City Making in Delhi (Paperback)
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Rule by Aesthetics offers a powerful examination of the process and
experience of mass demolition in the world's second largest city of
Delhi, India. Using Delhi's millennial effort to become a
'world-class city,' the book shows how aesthetic norms can replace
the procedures of mapping and surveying typically considered
necessary to administer space. This practice of evaluating
territory based on its adherence to aesthetic norms - what Ghertner
calls 'rule by aesthetics' - allowed the state in Delhi to
intervene in the once ungovernable space of slums, overcoming its
historical reliance on inaccurate maps and statistics. Slums hence
were declared illegal because they looked illegal, an arrangement
that led to the displacement of a million slum residents in the
first decade of the 21st century. Drawing on close ethnographic
engagement with the slum residents targeted for removal, as well as
the planners, judges, and politicians who targeted them, the book
demonstrates how easily plans, laws, and democratic procedures can
be subverted once the subjects of democracy are seen as visually
out of place. Slum dwellers' creative appropriation of dominant
aesthetic norms shows, however, that aesthetic rule does not mark
the end of democratic claims making. Rather, it signals a new
relationship between the mechanism of government and the practice
of politics, one in which struggles for a more inclusive city rely
more than ever on urban aesthetics, in Delhi as in aspiring
world-class cities the world over.
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