Streets in motion: the making of infrastructure, property, and political culture in twentieth-century Calcutta
Bandyopadhyay, Ritajyoti
Streets in motion: the making of infrastructure, property, and political culture in twentieth-century Calcutta - Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. - xiv, 305p.: hbk: 24cm. - Metamorphoses of the political: multidisciplinary approaches .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The book studies the social production of motion in a capitalist urban context. In the city of capital, motion refers to a fetish. The bourgeois order posits motion as a metaphor for energy, positivity, and progress – a norm – and obstruction (motion's dialectical opposite) as delinquency. The book uncovers the social tectonics of spatial mobilization and thus demystifies motion. Who and what set spaces on the move? How did various classes of city dwellers activate, experience, and negotiate it? Streets in Motion develops an approach to urban history by theorizing and historicizing the 'street' as an apparatus of city-making and subject formation. It works at two registers – a local history of Calcutta in colonial and post-colonial periods, and a theorizing of the logistical and political-cultural centrality of the street within this rubric. It is argued that the street is politics in as much as politics is the production of space.
-Introduces a new dialectical opposition between motion and obstruction and thus it re-articulates Marxism in urban history
Connects Calcutta's late-colonial histories with its postcolonial developments
-Introduces two new archives to the public - The Archives of the Calcutta Improvement Trust and the Hawker Sangram Committee
https://www.cambridge.org/in/universitypress/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-economy/streets-motion-making-infrastructure-property-and-political-culture-twentieth-century-calcutta?format=HB
9781009100113
Squatters
Streets
Pedestrian traffic flow
India--Kolkata
Social conditions
City planning
Mobilization of space
Calcutta streets
Urbanization
Kolkata--20th century
Calcutta Improvement Trust
Pedestrians
Sanitation
307.12160954147 / BAN
Streets in motion: the making of infrastructure, property, and political culture in twentieth-century Calcutta - Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. - xiv, 305p.: hbk: 24cm. - Metamorphoses of the political: multidisciplinary approaches .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The book studies the social production of motion in a capitalist urban context. In the city of capital, motion refers to a fetish. The bourgeois order posits motion as a metaphor for energy, positivity, and progress – a norm – and obstruction (motion's dialectical opposite) as delinquency. The book uncovers the social tectonics of spatial mobilization and thus demystifies motion. Who and what set spaces on the move? How did various classes of city dwellers activate, experience, and negotiate it? Streets in Motion develops an approach to urban history by theorizing and historicizing the 'street' as an apparatus of city-making and subject formation. It works at two registers – a local history of Calcutta in colonial and post-colonial periods, and a theorizing of the logistical and political-cultural centrality of the street within this rubric. It is argued that the street is politics in as much as politics is the production of space.
-Introduces a new dialectical opposition between motion and obstruction and thus it re-articulates Marxism in urban history
Connects Calcutta's late-colonial histories with its postcolonial developments
-Introduces two new archives to the public - The Archives of the Calcutta Improvement Trust and the Hawker Sangram Committee
https://www.cambridge.org/in/universitypress/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-economy/streets-motion-making-infrastructure-property-and-political-culture-twentieth-century-calcutta?format=HB
9781009100113
Squatters
Streets
Pedestrian traffic flow
India--Kolkata
Social conditions
City planning
Mobilization of space
Calcutta streets
Urbanization
Kolkata--20th century
Calcutta Improvement Trust
Pedestrians
Sanitation
307.12160954147 / BAN
