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Podcast: New Books in South Asian Studies
Episode: Thomas G. Cowan, "Subaltern Frontiers: Property and Labour in the Neoliberal Indian City" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Description: In urban and peri-urban areas across the Global South, politicians, planners and developers are engaged in a voracious scramble to refashion land for global real estate investment and transfer state power to private sector actors. Much of this development has taken place on the outskirts of the traditional metropoles, in the territorially flexible urban frontier. At the forefront of these processes in India, is Gurgaon, a privately developed metropolis on the south-western hinterlands of New Delhi, that has long been touted as India's flagship neoliberal city. Thomas G. Cowan's book Subaltern Frontiers: Property and Labour in the Ne...