Beyond Zoning

India's Corridors of "Development" And New Frontiers of Capital

Bibliographic Data

ID4440804
AuthorsIshita Dey (0009-0007-5142-5489), Giorgio Grappi (0000-0002-5210-8350)
Year2015
Volume114
Issue1
Pages153-170
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-2831345
OpenAlexW2331534836
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited16

This article explores the postcolonial state's experiments with logistics through the construction of industrial corridors. Through the concept of "corridor economy" it traces the shift from special economic zones to corridors, with a special focus on the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) to understand how land, labor, and capital are being organized through new governance strategies. By closely analyzing the violent labor unrest that broke out in the Maruti Suzuki plant in Manesar, an industrial center of prominence in the DMIC project, the article explores the ways the corridor economy model is being projected as the future of development. In so doing, the article positions this model as a neoliberal institution that marks new frontiers of capital and asks how the struggles crisscrossing the spaces of the DMIC reveal the paradoxical and heterogeneous political constellations of capital-labor relations and the transformations of the state form

Capital (architecture) · Corporate governance · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · Institution · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Unrest · Zoning · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Indian Economic and Social Development · Law · Political Economy and Marxism

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