| ID | 144171 |
| Title Proper | Post-reform India’s automotive-iconic-cement assemblages |
| Other Title Information | uneven globality, territorial spectacle and iconic exhibition value |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Jain, Kajri |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | India’s post-liberalisation landscape has unexpectedly been populated by monumental iconic statues. These statues, co-emergent with an automobile and construction boom and an attendant resignification and revaluing of land, are a productive site for rethinking the role of spectacle in neoliberal globalisation from the locus of post-liberalisation India. Against theories that characterise spectacle as primarily virtual and deterritorialised, they illuminate how spectacle is enmeshed in the imaginaries, spatial politics, material processes and heterogeneous temporalities of uneven development. Their religious aspect also calls for a re-examination of Benjamin’s distinction between cult value and exhibition value. |
| `In' analytical Note | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 23, No.3; Jun 2016: p.327-344 |
| Journal Source | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2016-06 23, 3 |
| Key Words | Globalisation ; India ; Spectacle ; Cement ; Automobility ; Statues |