Stephen Legg

Spaces of Colonialism

Delhi's Urban Governmentalities

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing upon the theories and methodologies of governmentality as presented in Michel Foucault's translated lecture courses, Spaces of Colonialism provides an analysis of the attempts made by the Government of India to secure and order Delhi, the capital of the Raj from 1911 to 1947. Following the path from New Delhi to Old Delhi, this book contains a mass of new empirical data that illustrates how these seemingly separate cities were united by shared political rationalities and landscapes of control. Beginning with a critical analysis of the colonial governmentality literature and a situation of Delhi in the history of India, this text examines the residential landscape of New Delhi, the policing of the new and old cities, and the biopolitical needs and improvements that arose in the urban landscape. The formative role of problematizations and resistance in driving these changes is stressed throughout and provides a historic basis for a contemporary critique of colonial governmentality. This ground-breaking text is the first comparative history of New and Old Delhi, making it an essential resource for scholars looking to stay ahead in a number of fields, including cultural theory, colonial history, urbanism, and post-colonial studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781405156325
• ISBN-10: 1405156325
• Artikelnr.: 22742499

Autorenporträt

Stephen Legg received his doctorate at the University of Cambridge and now lectures at the University of Nottingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Abbreviations.

Archival references.

1. Imperial Delhi.

1.1 New Delhi: Showcase of Sovereignty.

1.2 Colonial Governmentality.

2. Residential and Racial Segregation: a SpatialArchaeology.

2.1 The Spatial Administration of Precedence.

2.2 The Spatial Dissolution of Order.

3. Disciplining Delhi.

3.1 New Delhi: Policing the Heart of Empire.

3.2 Anti-colonial nationalism and urban order.

3.3 "Religious Nationalism" and Urban Diagrams.

4. Biopolitics and the Urban Environment.

4.1 Population expansion and urban disorder.

4.2 Congestion relief, calculation, and the "intensitymap".

4.3 The Western Extension, protest, and failed relief.

4.4 Slum clearance and the strictures of imperial finance.

5. Conclusions: within and beyond the city.

5.1 Interlinked landscapes of ordering.

5.2 Beyond colonial Delhi.

Notes.

References.

Index

Rezensionen

"Profound." (Progress in HumanGeography, February 2010)

"The breadth of scholarship is impressive, andanyone wishing to learn about colonial Delhi will find this book avaluable source. What Legg ultimately delivers is acritique of liberal government, showing how colonial power works inilliberal ways to assert the domination of the British over thenative population." (American Journal ofSociology, July 2009)

"The main strength of this book is its conceptual rigour.Legg draws on Foucault's recently translated1978 lecture series ... The book provides a detailed, theoreticallyinformed analysis of three landscapes of ordering in Delhi, Old andNew ... Spaces of colonialism rewards persistence, and will berequired reading for scholars of urbangovernmentality, and of considerable interest topost-colonial and urban geographers more generally."(Area, March 2009)

"Legg has mined and marshaled his writtensources superbly and his extrapolations of Foucault are lucid andprovocative." (Planning Perspectives, January2009)

"Legg uses these (Foucault's) well-triedconcepts to extremely good effect in interpreting some fascinatingarchival material ... .[The book] also has new things to say aboutNew Delhi and colonial urbanism generally." (ComparativeStudies in Society and History, December 2008)

"Writers have long recognised that social rules are at apremium in urban areas, and many discussions ofgovernmentality have taken cities as theirsubject. Spaces of Colonialism, a case study ofDelhi in the first half of the twentieth century that is publishedin the RGS-IBG book series, makes asignificant contribution to such debates." (Journal ofHistorical Geography)"A path-breaking analysis of colonial urban governmentality. Theauthor combines a deep knowledge of Foucauldian and (post-)colonialtheory with a careful interpretation of a wide range of archivaldata. The result is a stunning re-interpretation of the politics oflate colonial Indian urbanism."
-James S. Duncan, University of Cambridge

"Conceptually nuanced and empirically rich, this bookis a powerful example of the insights a theoretically informedgeography can bring. It is an important and carefully researchedwork that is likely to have a significant impact in bothgovernmentality and post-colonial studies."
-Stuart Elden, Durham University