City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty Volume 10

by Ananya Roy

Book Overview

Uses Calcutta as a site for the exploration of persistent structures of deprivation and want.

Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta; overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban labor markets in a daily commute against hunger; land is settled and claimed in a complex choreography of squatting and evictions: such, Ananya Roy contends, are the distinctive spaces of a communism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816639337
• ISBN13: 9780816639335
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"