Fearing the Unruly City: When Politics and Economy contaminates Policy

in‘The Politics and Economics of Land’ in The 21st Century Indian City: Developing and Agenda for

Urbanization in India March 23rd to 25th 2011, New Delhi

Solomon Benjamin National Institute for Advanced Study, Bangalore

Can we really ‘read’ the urban?

Are its constituent elements and spatialization beyond the categories of 'Policy' Program?

Can it really be mapped within the ‘Grid and the Law’ (Blomley), and to be framed within indicators of 'growth’

The Burdwan Pick-up Truck

Via an India-China connection

What looks like ‘ECONOMY’ shaped by institutional of multiple scalars building politics that re-works loans forced by multilateral agencies

Illustration of Ramannagaram's silk cocoon local economy

(from BENJAMIN - DELPHI 1998)

Radical Economies

Disrupting singular forms of property in patenting:

Not just ‘repair’ but Toil and Innovation!