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Urban UtopiasVikasanam: The Expansionist Choreography of Space-Making in Kerala

Urban Utopias: Vikasanam: The Expansionist Choreography of Space-Making in Kerala [Urban situations in Kerala delink people from places. They rearticulate them to vikasanam that works through expansions and exclusions. In Edachira, there is a progressive alienation from the immediate ecology because the physically immediate spaces become conduits of investments of all kinds. The assemblage of neo-liberal choreography works through rhetoric of future and protocols of ‘smartness’. Geographies and beings must get smart in order to be included in the discourse of utopia. But the irony is that the inclusions characteristically usurp the utopias and literally eviscerate places. The chapter is about the trajectories of vikasanam, smartness, cities, inclusions, eviscerations, people, as well as of rivers and hills.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Urban UtopiasVikasanam: The Expansionist Choreography of Space-Making in Kerala

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Kuldova, Tereza; Varghese, Mathew A.
Varghese, Mathew A.
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
75 –95
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-47623-0_5
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Abstract

[Urban situations in Kerala delink people from places. They rearticulate them to vikasanam that works through expansions and exclusions. In Edachira, there is a progressive alienation from the immediate ecology because the physically immediate spaces become conduits of investments of all kinds. The assemblage of neo-liberal choreography works through rhetoric of future and protocols of ‘smartness’. Geographies and beings must get smart in order to be included in the discourse of utopia. But the irony is that the inclusions characteristically usurp the utopias and literally eviscerate places. The chapter is about the trajectories of vikasanam, smartness, cities, inclusions, eviscerations, people, as well as of rivers and hills.]

Published: Mar 10, 2017

Keywords: Smart City; Land Reform; Special Economic Zone; Gated Community; Smart Space

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