num_pages: 176
description: Displacement Revolution and the New Urban Condition provides a window into the global urban contradiction through the lens of a Third World city. It is not a book on urban India or a book on Ahmedabad city or even a book on the Sabarmati River Front Development (SRFD) project but it is a book that uses all these lenses to conceptualize urban exploitation. The author develops a dialectical praxis of theory transfer that takes us from the First World to the Third World and back again. In the process the arrow of theory transfer is not reversed because theory cannot be transferred by simply changing the direction of the arrow; instead an attempt is made to (re)produce and (re)inform different conceptual worlds by juxtaposing it with the SRFD project in Ahmedabad city. This book is therefore as much about the poor people of Ahmedabad as it is about global urban displacement and the politics of resettlement and resistancetheory and practice are always inflected and the chapters demonstrate this inflection deeply and clearly. The point is to change the world and to do so we must relentlessly struggle to better the concepts that we use to understand it with. This book is such a struggle.
language: English
title: Displacement, Revolution, and the New Urban Condition: Theories and Case Studies
publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd