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Dedication ; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures ; Chapter 1: Introduction: Urban Utopias-Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal India and Sri Lanka; Futuristic Visions of Urbanity and Socio-Economic Expulsions; Urban Megalomaniac Visions and Heritage Utopias; Urban Queer Utopias and Bodily Expulsions; References; Part I: Futuristic Visions of Urbanity and Socio-Economic Expulsions; Chapter 2: The Impossibility of World-Class Slum-Free Indian Cities and the Fantasy of 'Two Indias'; Introduction: World-Class Slum-Free Cities; Žižekian Ideological Critique
The Fantasies of Two Indias'Other India as Political Society and the Survival Economy'; 'Other India as "Leash"'; Discussion; Conclusion: Escaping Neoliberal Urban Fantasies; References; Chapter 3: Guarded Luxotopias and Expulsions in New Delhi: Aesthetics and Ideology of Outer and Inner Spaces of an Urban Utopia; Luxotopias as a Form of Aesthetic Governance; Luxotopia as a Developmental Paradigm: The Loss of Urbanity and Security; Fashionable Luxotopias and the Sources of Pride of the Neo-Aristocracy; Conclusion: Haunted Luxotopias; Notes; References
Chapter 4: Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in GoaGrowth Infrastructures and 'New India'; Promoting Airport Development; Mopa: Redefining 'Golden Goa'; 'Green Goa'; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Vikasanam: The Expansionist Choreography of Space-Making in Kerala; Orders in Search for Cities: A Take from Edachira; Yahiya of Edachira; Vikasanam: The Contemporary Expansive Logic; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Cities of Neoliberal Future: Urban Utopia in Indian Science Fiction Cinema; Cityscape in Bollywood Cinema; City Spaces in a Temporal Continuum
Neoliberalism and Urban UtopiasAmbivalences of the Neoliberal-Hindu Nation; Conclusion; Note; References; Part II: Urban Megalomaniac Visions and Heritage Utopias; Chapter 7: Manifesting Sri Lankan Megalomania: The Rajapakses' Vision of Empire and of a Clean Colombo; Relocating the Undesirables; The Rajapakses' Will to Power and Militarization of Society; Is It Neoliberalism?; Worlding Practices-A Bag of Mixed Intentions?; The Utopia of Empire and Its Financiers; A Preliminary Postscript; Notes; References; Chapter 8: A Modern Chakravartin: Mayawati's New Buddhist Visual Culture
Memorializing Ambedkar and Mayawati Through Appropriations of Ancient Indian Buddhist ArtA Noble Past: Navayāna Buddhism and Dalit "Homeplaces"; Mayawati's Homeplaces in U.P. and Second Phase New Buddhist Imagery; The Ambedkar Memorial; The Prerna Sthal; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 9: Past as a Metaphor in the New Utopian Imaginations of Heritage in Kerala; Kochi as Host City; Kochi and the Cosmopolitan Narrative; Configuring Kochi-Muziris; New Narratives of a Past Utopia: Exclusions and Appropriations; Notes; References
The Fantasies of Two Indias'Other India as Political Society and the Survival Economy'; 'Other India as "Leash"'; Discussion; Conclusion: Escaping Neoliberal Urban Fantasies; References; Chapter 3: Guarded Luxotopias and Expulsions in New Delhi: Aesthetics and Ideology of Outer and Inner Spaces of an Urban Utopia; Luxotopias as a Form of Aesthetic Governance; Luxotopia as a Developmental Paradigm: The Loss of Urbanity and Security; Fashionable Luxotopias and the Sources of Pride of the Neo-Aristocracy; Conclusion: Haunted Luxotopias; Notes; References
Chapter 4: Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in GoaGrowth Infrastructures and 'New India'; Promoting Airport Development; Mopa: Redefining 'Golden Goa'; 'Green Goa'; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Vikasanam: The Expansionist Choreography of Space-Making in Kerala; Orders in Search for Cities: A Take from Edachira; Yahiya of Edachira; Vikasanam: The Contemporary Expansive Logic; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Cities of Neoliberal Future: Urban Utopia in Indian Science Fiction Cinema; Cityscape in Bollywood Cinema; City Spaces in a Temporal Continuum
Neoliberalism and Urban UtopiasAmbivalences of the Neoliberal-Hindu Nation; Conclusion; Note; References; Part II: Urban Megalomaniac Visions and Heritage Utopias; Chapter 7: Manifesting Sri Lankan Megalomania: The Rajapakses' Vision of Empire and of a Clean Colombo; Relocating the Undesirables; The Rajapakses' Will to Power and Militarization of Society; Is It Neoliberalism?; Worlding Practices-A Bag of Mixed Intentions?; The Utopia of Empire and Its Financiers; A Preliminary Postscript; Notes; References; Chapter 8: A Modern Chakravartin: Mayawati's New Buddhist Visual Culture
Memorializing Ambedkar and Mayawati Through Appropriations of Ancient Indian Buddhist ArtA Noble Past: Navayāna Buddhism and Dalit "Homeplaces"; Mayawati's Homeplaces in U.P. and Second Phase New Buddhist Imagery; The Ambedkar Memorial; The Prerna Sthal; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 9: Past as a Metaphor in the New Utopian Imaginations of Heritage in Kerala; Kochi as Host City; Kochi and the Cosmopolitan Narrative; Configuring Kochi-Muziris; New Narratives of a Past Utopia: Exclusions and Appropriations; Notes; References