![]() ![]() Llerena Guiu Searle is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rochester. Landscapes of Accumulation will be a welcome contribution to the international study of neoliberalism, finance and urban development and will be of particular interest to those studying rapid-and perhaps unsustainable-development across the Global South. ![]() As a result, India’s cities are becoming ever more inaccessible to the country’s poor. When youre in Siena (one of the most beautiful cities in the world), stop in Libreria Mondadori, in Via Montanini 112, and grab a copy of Accumulation for some vacation reading. Drawing on intensive fieldwork with investors, developers, real estate agents and others, Searle documents the new private sector partnerships and practices that are transforming India’s built environment, as well as widely shared stories of growth and development that themselves create self-fulfilling prophecies of success. India’s land, she shows, is rapidly transforming from a site of agricultural and industrial production to an international financial resource. ![]() Life on an aimless road is better than none Buan Boonaca. In Landscapes of Accumulation, Llerena Guiu Searle examines India’s booming developments and offers a nuanced ethnographic treatment of late capitalism. So many people work so hard, to achieve, attain, accumulate and cherish their fortunes. Editing is a critical and necessary part of the writing process, but in the wrong hands it can be executed with machine. ![]()
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