Pirate modernity

Using delhi's contemporary history as a site for reflection moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by us planners in the 1950s the massive expansions after 1977 culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s as a practice pirate modernity is an read more illicit form of urban globalization poorer urban populations increasingly inhabit non-legal spheres unauthorized neighborhoods squatter camps and bypass legal technological infrastructures media electricity this pirate culture produces a significant enabling resource for subaltern populations unable enter the legal city equally this is an unstable world bringing subaltern populations into the harsh glare of permanent technological visibility and attacks by urban elites courts and visceral media industries the book examines contemporary delhi from some of these sites the unmaking of the citys modernist planning design new technological urban networks that bypass states and corporations and the tragic exper...