Corruption Plots : : Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City / / David L. Pike, Malini Ranganathan, Sapana Doshi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Ranganathan, Malini,; Doshi, Sapana,; Pike, David L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.) :; 35 b&w halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Statement on Caste, Positionality, and Privilege --; Abbreviations --; Note on Names and Currency --; INTRODUCTION --; 1 SLUM --; 2 MULTISTORY BUILDING --; 3 PERIPHERY --; 4 SWAMPLAND --; 5 INFRASTRUCTURE --; 6 WORLD-CLASS CITY --; CONCLUSION --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501768767; 9783110751833; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319261; 9783111318806
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501768767
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David L. Pike, Malini Ranganathan, Sapana Doshi.

Corruption Plots illuminates how corruption is fundamental to a global storytelling practice about how states and elites abuse entrusted power in late capitalism. The millennial city of the global South is a charged setting for allegations of corruption, with skyscrapers, land grabs, and slum evictions invoking outrage at deepening economic polarization. Drawing on ethnography in Bengaluru and Mumbai and a cross-section of literary and cinematic stories of corruption from cities around the world, Malini Ranganathan, David L. Pike, and Sapana Doshi pay close attention to the racial, caste, class, and gender location of the narrators, spaces, and publics imagined to be harmed by corruption. Corruption Plots demonstrates how corruption talk is leveraged to make sense of unequal spatial change and used opportunistically by those who are themselves implicated in wrongdoing. Offering a wide-ranging analysis of urban worlds, the authors reveal the ethical, spatial, and political stakes of storytelling and how vital it is to examine the "corruption plot" in all its contradictions.