Crossing the Howrah Bridge: Calcutta, filth and dwelling - forms, fragments, phantasms

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The politics of dwelling of the inhabitants of "outcast" Calcutta, the city that is the nightmare of urban planners and whose dirtiness, filth and poverty are taken to be indexes of the failure of the postcolonial urbanism is studied. Non-state political formations emerging out of the negotiations of the City Form with the non-civic but enabling life-forms prevalent in subaltern Calcutta is discussed.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Emigration and immigration, Migrant labor, Calcutta, India, Migrant labour

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The state of globalization: Legal plurality, overlapping sovereignties and ambiguous alliances between civil society and the cunning state in India

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The emergence of intertwined structures of rule, overlapping sovereignties and complex processes of legal transnationalization due to globalization have reconfigured the relations between law, state and territoriality in India. The dynamic of legal politics against impoverishment and dispossession caused by the global designs of privatization of the commons in India is addressed.

Analysis, Economic aspects, Political aspects, Privatization, Privatization (Business), Globalization

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