Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi
Watch the online conversation with Dr Sushmita Pati, Assistant Professor in Political Science, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, for a discussion on her new book
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi
19 Mar 2024, 12:30 – 14:00
About this talk:
Properties of Rent is a study of urban transformation in cities of the global south at the cusp of political economy and urbanism. This book looks at the spatial transformation of villages brought into Delhi’s urban fray in the 1950s. As these villages transform physically, their residents, an agrarian-pastoralist community - the Jats - also transform into dabblers in real estate. A study of two villages - Munirka and Shahpur Jat - both in the heart of the bustling urban economies of Delhi reveals that it is ‘rent’ that could define this suburbanisation.
Properties of Rent is a study of how vernacular forms of capitalism shape up in opposition to both the state, finance capital and the city in contemporary urban Delhi.
Meet the panel:
- Speaker: Dr Sushmita Pati | Assistant Professor in Political Science, National Law School of India University, Bangalore
- Discussant: Dr Mariam Zaqout | Postdoctoral Researcher (Economics of Water) at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
- Discussant: Rahul Jain | UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) alumnus
- Chair: Beatriz Vasconcellos | Research Fellow at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
- Convenor: Dr Cecilia Rikap | Head of Research and Associate Professor in Economics at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
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