Urban Utopias

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.- 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 Utopia.- 4. Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa.- 5. Vikasanam: The Expansionist Choreography of Space-Making in Kerala.- 6. Cities of Neoliberal Future: Urban Utopia in Indian Science Fiction Cinema.- 7. Manifesting Sri Lankan Megalomania - the Rajapakses' Vision of Empire and of a Clean Colombo.- 8. A Modern Chakravartin: Mayawati's New Buddhist Visual Culture.- 9. Past as Metaphor in the New Utopian Imaginations of Heritage in Kerala.- 10. Excavating the City: Metro Rail Construction and Imagination of Past in Contemporary Jaipur.- 11. Utopia or Elsewhere: Queer Modernities in Small Town West Bengal.- 12. Utopia Interrupted: Indian Sex/Gender Dissident Activism and The Everyday Search for a Life Worth Living.- 13. 'Queerness's Domain? Queer Negotiations, Utopian Visions, and the Failures of Heterotopias in Bangalore.- 14. Philosophical Epilogue.