Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Aspirations in Contemporary India

This volume brings together scholarship from different disciplines on the theme of<br> neoliberalism. Contemporary neoliberal economic policy, it argues has increased<br> inequalities and exclusions while providing opportunities to the upper sections of<br> the society. In turn it has also creating new risks and challenges to everyday lives<br> of the lower and middle classes of the country. While the focus of the volume is<br> on the way urbanization and lower-class aspirations have been harnessed for the<br> neoliberal project, there are also essays on the way social media has impacted<br> democracy and as well on the impact of gendered demographic dividend on the<br> economy. The volume also includes a set of papers that analyses the implications<br> of neoliberalism on the State of Uttar Pradesh. The authors in this volume<br> argue that the changes inaugurated by neoliberalism challenge them to re-think<br> old perspectives on development popular among social scientists with most<br> asserting a need to construct new interdisciplinary perspectives to narrate analytically these contemporary changes.