Urbanizing the Future

A New City Project in Agrarian South India

Carol Upadhya (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

290 Seiten

2026
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781836954736 (ISBN)

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Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh, exemplifies India’s policy thrust on urbanization. Tracing the rise, abandonment and revival of Amaravati, Urbanizing the Future delves into the ambitious plan to build a brand-new city in an agrarian landscape. The book unpacks the entanglements of caste, capital, and state power in shaping development through a regional lens. Urbanizing the Future highlights the disruptions and conflicts engendered by mega-projects as agricultural land is converted into urban real estate. Combining political economy and history with long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the Amaravati story offers a compelling critique of planned urbanization as a contested and uneven process in contemporary India.

Carol Upadhya is Honorary Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India, where she leads the Urban & Mobility Studies Programme. Her latest publication is Chronicles of a Global City: Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru, co-edited with Vinay Gidwani and Michael Goldman (2024). She is also the author of Reengineering India: Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy (2016) and co-editor of Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics (2018).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Locating Amaravati

Chapter 2. Capital Futures

Chapter 3. Land of Speculation

Chapter 4. Urbanizing the Rural

Chapter 5. Unruly Lands

Chapter 6. Assetizing the Future

Chapter 7. Saving Amaravati

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.2026
Reihe/Serie	Dislocations
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index; 20 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781836954736 / 9781836954736
Zustand	Neuware