City requiem, Calcutta gender and the politics of poverty

Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta; overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban labor markets in a daily commute against hunger; land is settled and claimed in a complex choreography of squatting and evictions: such, Ananya Roy contends, are the...

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Main Author: Roy, Ananya (-)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press [2003]
Series:Globalization and community ; v. 10
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