Urban Utopias

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series

Editors: Kuldova, Tereza; Varghese, Mathew A.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47623-0

ISBN: 978-3-319-47622-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Mar 10, 2017

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Utopia or Elsewhere: Queer Modernities in Small Town West Bengal

Boyce, Paul; Dasgupta, Rohit K.

Pages: 209 –225

[This chapter is based on collaborative ethnographic work conducted in Siliguri and Barasat, regional towns in West Bengal, India. We explore concerns around ‘liveable lives’ and social visibility in terms of explicit same-sex sexualities in these contexts, seeking to understand such lives as a...
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Utopia Interrupted: Indian Sex/Gender Dissident Activism and the Everyday Search for a Life Worth Living

Osella, Caroline

Pages: 227 –246

[‘Revealing myths as simplistic or unrealistic does not help (…) we cultivate them even when we know better’, as Tereza Kuldova argued. Sex/gender activists in India are simultaneously well aware of problems with globalized liberal mythologies of ‘liberation’ and ‘gender freedom’ but are also...
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Queerness’s Domain?: Queer Negotiations, Utopian Visions and the Failures of Heterotopias in Bangalore

Strey, Jacquelyn P.

Pages: 247 –267

[This chapter investigates José Esteban Muñoz’s claim ‘that the future belongs to queerness’ by focusing on middle-class queer women’s everyday experiences in contemporary Bangalore. As middle class, these women are co-opted into nationalist and neoliberal imaginaries as symbols of India’s rising...
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Epilogue: The Promise of Urbanity—How the City Makes Life Worth Living

Pfaller, Robert

Pages: 269 –279

[Urbanity is in the first place, as Lewis Mumford nicely puts it, a “promise” (Mumford 1961, 3)—in other words an ideal, a utopia. Not all utopias may be urban, but all urbanity is definitely utopian. Yet the designation that urbanity is utopian, or a promise, does not imply that this utopia has...

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