Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Aspirations in Contemporary India

This volume brings together scholarship from different disciplines on the theme ofneoliberalism. Contemporary neoliberal economic policy, it argues has increasedinequalities and exclusions while providing opportunities to the upper sections ofthe society. In turn it has also creating new risks and challenges to everyday livesof the lower and middle classes of the country. While the focus of the volume ison the way urbanization and lower-class aspirations have been harnessed for theneoliberal project, there are also essays on the way social media has impacteddemocracy and as well on the impact of gendered demographic dividend on theeconomy. The volume also includes a set of papers that analyses the implicationsof neoliberalism on the State of Uttar Pradesh. The authors in this volumeargue that the changes inaugurated by neoliberalism challenge them to re-thinkold perspectives on development popular among social scientists with mostasserting a need to construct new interdisciplinary perspectives to narrate analytically these contemporary changes.