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Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the Next World City: Speculative urbanism in Bangalore

GOLDMAN, MICHAEL·2011·International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

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This article explores the process of making Bangalore, India into a ‘world city’ by focusing on specific world-city projects, the parastatal government agencies managing them, the explosive IT industry as the putative engine behind this world-city making, and the inter-urban dynamics across world cities such as Dubai and Singapore. Most of these activities are linked to the highly remunerative challenge of transforming rural economies into urban real estate. Land speculation and active dispossession of those working and living in the rural periphery, on land upon which the new world-city projects are being built, is the main business of government today in Bangalore. This article suggests that this temporary ‘state of exception’, with both its attendant suspensions of civil and human rights as well as their institutionalization into government practices, reflects a shift into new forms of ‘speculative’ government, economy, urbanism and citizenship. Résumé En Inde, Bangalore passe par un processus de fabrication de ‘ville mondiale’. Pour l'étudier, cet article examine les projets spécifiques à cette dimension urbaine, les organes para-étatiques qui les gèrent, le secteur des technologies informatiques en plein essor qui est censéêtre le moteur du processus, ainsi que les dynamiques interurbaines qui relient les villes mondiales comme Dubaï et Singapour. Ces activités sont associées en grande partie à l'entreprise, particulièrement rémunératrice, de transformation des économies rurales en secteur immobilier urbain. Le gouvernement actuel de Bangalore s'emploie principalement à des opérations de spéculation foncière et de dépossession énergique à l'encontre des populations qui travaillent et vivent dans la zone périphérique rurale, sur les terrains où se bâtissent les projets de la ‘ville mondiale’. Cet ‘état d'exception’ temporaire, avec la suspension afférente de droits civiques et humains, parallèlement à son institutionnalisation dans certaines pratiques du gouvernement, reflète le passage vers de nouvelles formes de citoyenneté, d'urbanisme, d'économie et de gouvernement ‘spéculateur’.

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Authors
GOLDMAN, M.
Venue
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2010-12-01
Volume
35
Issue
3
Pages
555-581
ISSN
0309-1317 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1560055541
Cited by
622
References
43
FWCI
69.43
Type
journal article
Language
en
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GOLDMAN, M. (2011). Speculative Urbanism and the Making of the Next World City: Speculative urbanism in Bangalore. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.01001.x

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