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Urban UtopiasGolden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa

Urban Utopias: Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa [This chapter explores how infrastructure projects help materialise utopian visions of a ‘new India’. It does this by focussing on the aviation sector and the specific case of a proposed greenfield airport at Mopa located in the state of Goa. It shows how the proposed project deviates from old-styled airports in terms of being conceived as an ‘airport city’, into a space of consumption, which is itself connected with other utopian projects such as golf courses, marinas, and luxury resorts. Importantly the chapter also demonstrates that such infrastructure projects have generated their own politics of dispossession leading to stiff opposition which has in turn led to the articulation of counter-utopias.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Urban UtopiasGolden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Kuldova, Tereza; Varghese, Mathew A.
Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Da Silva, Solano Jose Savio
Urban Utopias — Mar 10, 2017
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-47622-3
Pages
53 –73
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-47623-0_4
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Abstract

[This chapter explores how infrastructure projects help materialise utopian visions of a ‘new India’. It does this by focussing on the aviation sector and the specific case of a proposed greenfield airport at Mopa located in the state of Goa. It shows how the proposed project deviates from old-styled airports in terms of being conceived as an ‘airport city’, into a space of consumption, which is itself connected with other utopian projects such as golf courses, marinas, and luxury resorts. Importantly the chapter also demonstrates that such infrastructure projects have generated their own politics of dispossession leading to stiff opposition which has in turn led to the articulation of counter-utopias.]

Published: Mar 10, 2017

Keywords: Smart City; International Airport; Civil Aviation; Special Economic Zone; Land Acquisition

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