{"product_id":"logics-of-dispossession-liza-weinstein-9780520423619","title":"Logics of Dispossession: Governing by Eviction in Indian Cities","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new \"bulldozer politics\" has taken hold in many Indian cities, destroying neighborhoods and displacing city residents as it pursues a global city aesthetic. Presentist accounts might explain these evictions as emergent modes of capital accumulation, but \u003ci\u003eLogics of Dispossession\u003c\/i\u003e challenges that story and situates these acts in a longer historical \u003ci\u003edurée\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmploying a comparative genealogical approach to historical analysis, Liza Weinstein traces the Indian government's power to evict--from its beginnings in the colonial capitals of the British Raj, to developmental state-building projects and the rise of ethnonationalist politics, up to the present neoliberal conjuncture. Drawing on multicity fieldwork, archival research, and a database of more than a thousand eviction cases, Weinstein argues that evictions constitute a historically entrenched tool of city governance, motivated by a shifting set of intersecting, often contradictory logics that have accumulated over time and in locally specific ways across Indian cities aspiring to be world-class.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Liza Weinstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520423615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520423619\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Liza Weinstein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48997483380991,"sku":"9780520423619","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/logics-of-dispossession-liza-weinstein-9780520423619","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}