Urban Utopias (eBook)

Tereza Kuldova is Researcher at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation, and History, University of Oslo, Norway, and Visiting Senior Researcher at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria. Mathew A. Varghese is a non-resident research fellow with The Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR), Kochi, India, and Lecturer at The Maharajas College, Kerala, India. 

1. Introduction: Urban Utopias - Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal India and Sri Lanka PART I: Futuristic Visions of Urbanity and Socio-Economic Expulsions 2. The Impossibility of World Class Slum Free Indian Cities and the Fantasy of ‘Two Indias’3. Guarded Luxotopias and Expulsions in New Delhi: Aesthetics and Ideology of Outer and Inner Spaces of an Urban Utopia4. Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa5. Vikasanam: The Expansionist Choreography of Space-Making in Kerala6. Cities of Neoliberal Future: Urban Utopia in Indian Science Fiction CinemaPART II: Urban Megalomaniac Visions and Heritage Utopias 7. Manifesting Sri Lankan Megalomania – the Rajapakses’ Vision of Empire and of a Clean Colombo8. A Modern Chakravartin: Mayawati’s New Buddhist Visual Culture9. Past as Metaphor in the New Utopian Imaginations of Heritage in Kerala10. Excavating the City: Metro Rail Construction and Imagination of Past in Contemporary JaipurPART III: Urban Queer Utopias and Bodily Expulsions11. Utopia or Elsewhere: Queer Modernities in Small Town West Bengal12. Utopia Interrupted: Indian Sex/Gender Dissident Activism and The Everyday Search for a Life Worth Living13. ‘Queerness's Domain? Queer Negotiations, Utopian Visions, and the Failures of Heterotopias in Bangalore14. Philosophical Epilogue