Chapter 4. Biopolitics and the Urban Environment
Published Online: 13 MAY 2008
DOI: 10.1002/9780470712856.ch4
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Legg
Book Title
Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities
Additional Information
How to Cite
Legg, S. (2008) Biopolitics and the Urban Environment, in Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9780470712856.ch4
Publication History
- Published Online: 13 MAY 2008
- Published Print: 1 JAN 2007
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405156332
Online ISBN: 9780470712856
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- Delhi's population;
- Urban environment;
- biopolitics;
- biopower;
- self-regulating citizens
Summary
This chapter contains section titled:
Population Expansion and Urban Disorder
Congestion Relief, Calculation and the ‘Intensity Map’
The Western Extension, Protest and Failed Relief
Slum Clearance and the Strictures of Imperial Finance