{"product_id":"chronicles-of-a-global-city-vinay-gidwani-9781517917364","title":"Chronicles of a Global City: Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracking Bengaluru's dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheavals\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Over the past two decades, Bengaluru's exploding real estate sector and massive infrastructure investments have led to land speculation targeting working-class neighborhoods and agricultural land for development. \u003ci\u003eChronicles of a Global City\u003c\/i\u003e turns Bengaluru inside out to examine its \"world-city\" transformation that stimulated rapid urbanization and unbounded growth. Moving the spotlight away from the urban elites and \"new middle class,\" this book explores how people caught up in the whirlwinds of change in Bengaluru--from construction laborers, street vendors, domestic workers, and platform delivery workers to small-time property brokers, petty landlords, and local politicians--experience, struggle, aspire, invent, strive, and speculate to make a livable city for themselves. \u003cp\u003e Grounded in long-term ethnographic research and activist experiences, \u003ci\u003eChronicles of a Global City\u003c\/i\u003e vividly illuminates the multifaceted entanglements of finance capital, real estate markets, livelihood struggles, and fraying ecologies in urban and peri-urban Bengaluru. Its anchoring concept, \"speculative urbanism,\" provides a powerful, innovative lens for understanding the risk-laden practices of leveraging land, labor, and resources for the promise of future profit. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contributors: Hemangini Gupta, Pierre Hauser, Priyanka Krishna, Eesha Kunduri, Kaveri Medappa, Usha Rao, Shaheen Shasa, Swathi Shivanand, Vinay K. Sreenivasa. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vinay Gidwani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517917360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517917364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Vinay Gidwani","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46739148964095,"sku":"9781517917364","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1cc47a99-f2b1-482d-89ca-540554b8e7ae.jpg?v=1743277361","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chronicles-of-a-global-city-vinay-gidwani-9781517917364","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}