Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field

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Unlearning the City U n l e a r n i n g I n f r a s t r u c t u r e t h e C i t y i n a N e w O p t i c a l Fi e l d S wat i C h at t o p a d h yay University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis  London Portions of chapter 1 were published in “Bourgeois Utopias? The Rhetoric of Globality in the Contemporary Suburban Landscape of Calcutta,” Working Papers in Contemporary Asian Studies, Center for East and South East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden (2009). Portions of chapter 6 were published in “The Art of Auto-mobility:Vehicular Art and the Space of Resistance in Calcutta ,” Journal of Material Culture 14, no. 1 (January 2009): 107–39. Unless otherwise credited, all contemporary photographs and drawings are by the author. Copyright 2012 by Swati Chattopadhyay All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chattopadhyay, Swati, 1962– Unlearning the city : infrastructure in a new optical field / Swati Chattopadhyay. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-7931-7 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-8166-7932-4 (pb) 1. City and town life—India. 2. Public spaces—India. I.Title. HT147.I4C45 2012 307.760954—dc23 2012029389 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12     10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Jerry This page intentionally left blank. ...