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September 1, 2000Public Culture

Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai

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AAArjun Appadurai

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Overview

Critical urban analysis reveals uneven economic restructuring in Mumbai, highlighting how predatory global finance clashes with local production to generate severe social exclusion.

Key Points

  • To examine how globalization, post-Fordism, and predatory financial capital intersect with uneven urban histories and spatial politics in millennial Mumbai.
  • Theoretical analysis grounded in Marxist political economy and urban geography.
  • Comparative contextualization of Mumbai alongside other global metropolises experiencing financialized real estate pressures.
  • Identifies an uneasy coexistence of Fordist manufacture, artisanal craft, service sectors, and virtual financial markets within the same urban space.
  • Demonstrates that millennial Mumbai embodies disjunct historical temporalities rather than a uniform transition to post-Fordist economic structures.
  • Highlights how the aggressive push of global speculative finance creates acute socio-spatial displacement and urban marginality.

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Arjun Appadurai (2000) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0fa397b6f5ee04015fddb2https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-3-627
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