Neoliberalism, urbanization, & aspirations in contemporary India

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This volume brings together scholarship from different disciplines on the theme of neoliberalism. Contemporary neoliberal economic policy, it argues, has increased inequalities and exclusions while...

This volume brings together scholarship from different disciplines on the theme of neoliberalism. Contemporary neoliberal economic policy, it argues, has increased inequalities and exclusions while providing opportunities to the upper sections of the society. In turn it has also created new risks and challenges to the everyday lives of the lower and middle classes of the country. While the focus of the volume is on the way urbanization and lower-class aspirations have been harnessed for the neoliberal project, there are also essays on the way in which social media have impacted democracy as well as the impact of the gendered demographic dividend on the economy. The volume also includes a set of chapters that analyses the implications of neoliberalism on the state of Uttar Pradesh. The authors in this volume argue that the changes inaugurated by neoliberalism challenge them to rethink old perspectives on development popular among social scientists with most asserting a need to construct new interdisciplinary perspectives to narrate analytically these contemporary changes.

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