ABSTRACT

This paper reads multiple shades of dispossession in an Asian megacity. The multiple dispositions talk of dispossession as an instrument that limits the autonomy and the self-sufficiency in material and non-material dimensions. In that endeavor we emphasize taking a broader picture of dispossession while pursuing critical urban theory. Through unpacking four ethnographies in Kolkata, the essay looks into dispossession, and in that process displacement and accumulation, from multiple vantage points while stressing on urban as a process that lies at the cross-section of the global capitalist development. The essay intertwines it with postcolonial reading - assemblage and worlding as they enable nuanced and contextual reading of urban emergence, negotiations, and negations. The methodology through an extended ethnography arrives at a point that dispossession is a broader concept holding intense meanings that need to be read beyond abstraction and through quintessentially nuanced postcolonial urban studies. 

摘要

这篇论文解读了亚洲大城市的多种剥夺。多重倾向将剥夺视为限制物质和非物质维度的自主性和自给自足的工具。在这项努力中，我们强调在追求批判性城市理论的同时采取更广泛的剥夺图片。通过解开加尔各答的四个民族志，本文从多个角度探讨了剥夺，以及在这个过程中的流离失所和积累，同时强调城市是一个处于全球资本主义发展横截面的过程。这篇文章将其与后殖民阅读——组合和世界化——交织在一起，因为它们能够对城市出现、谈判和否定进行细致入微的语境阅读。