Chronicles of a Global City: Speculative Lives and Unsettled Futures in Bengaluru

Tracking Bengaluru’s dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheavals, this edited volume is an outcome of the Speculative Urbanism research project that was carried out over several years at NIAS, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Minnesota. The book is a collection of short essays written to be accessible to a general readership, but undergirded by theoretical insights from sociology, anthropology, urban studies and geography.