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Spaces of Colonialism

Name: Spaces of Colonialism
Author: Stephen Legg

Delhi's Urban Governmentalities

Stephen Legg

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John Wiley & Sons

Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Geografie

Beschreibung

Examines the residential, policed, and infrastructural landscapes of New and Old Delhi under British Rule. * The first book of its kind to present a comparative history of New and Old Delhi * Draws on the governmentality theories and methodologies presented in Michel Foucault's lecture courses * Looks at problems of social and racial segregation, the policing of the cities, and biopolitical needs in urban settings * Undertakes a critique of colonial governmentality on the basis of the lived spaces of everyday life

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(Progress in Human Geography, February 2010)
"Profound."

(American Journal of Sociology, July 2009)
"The breadth of scholarship is impressive, and anyone wishing to learn about colonial Delhi will find this book a valuable source. What Legg ultimately delivers is a critique of liberal government, showing how colonial power works in illiberal ways to assert the domination of the British over the native population."

(Area, March 2009)
"The main strength of this book is its conceptual rigour. Legg draws on Foucault's recently translated 1978 lecture series.... The book provides a detailed, theoretically informed analysis of three landscapes of ordering in Delhi, Old and New.... Spaces of colonialism rewards persistence, and will be required reading for scholars of urban governmentality, and of considerable interest to post-colonial and urban geographers more generally."

(Planning Perspectives, January 2009)
"Legg has mined and marshaled his written sources superbly and his extrapolations of Foucault are lucid and provocative."

(Comparative Studies in Society and History, December 2008)
"Legg uses these (Foucault's) well-tried concepts to extremely good effect in interpreting some fascinating archival material.... [The book] also has new things to say about New Delhi and colonial urbanism generally."

(Journal of Historical Geography)
"Writers have long recognised that social rules are at a premium in urban areas, and many discussions of governmentality have taken cities as their subject. Spaces of Colonialism, a case study of Delhi in the first half of the twentieth century that is published in the RGS-IBG book series, makes a significant contribution to such debates."

--James S. Duncan, University of Cambridge
"A path-breaking analysis of colonial urban governmentality. The author combines a deep knowledge of Foucauldian and (post-)colonial theory with a careful interpretation of a wide range of archival data. The result is a stunning re-interpretation of the politics of late colonial Indian urbanism."

--Stuart Elden, Durham University
"Conceptually nuanced and empirically rich, this book is a powerful example of the insights a theoretically informed geography can bring. It is an important and carefully researched work that is likely to have a significant impact in both governmentality and post-colonial studies."

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