What is it about?
This article is about the way in which experts claim that art, creativity, and heritage can help with 'development' in India, but that they refuse to address underlying problems of caste, class, religious, and colonial violence.
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Why is it important?
This is important because creativity and heritage are becoming extremely central to the way in which urban development policy is proceeding in India--it is the next 'big idea' that experts claim will solve India's development problems.
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What is important about this article is to show that capitalism and capitalist development is invested with sentiment, making emotions mobilized by capitalism significant to study, especially in times when the promise of 'development' seems far from the reach of the vast majority of people.
Dia Da Costa
University of Alberta
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This page is a summary of: Sentimental Capitalism in Contemporary India: Art, Heritage, and Development in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Antipode, June 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12103.
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