Whose city is it anyway? Middle class imagination and urban restructuring in twenty-first century Kolkata

Whose city is it anyway? Middle class imagination and urban restructuring in twenty- first century Kolkata

This article provides an overview of the way in which post-liberalization urban restructuring is determined by middle class imaginations and lifestyles in Kolkata, India. It charts how the conjunction between planning, politics and private investment made middle class hegemony in the new urban politics possible, and how the processes that have been set in motion create new spatializations accor...

Whose Information Is It Anyway?

whose responsibility is it anyway ?

Whose risk is it anyway?

Powell et al 1 have proposed the importance of 90-day mortality after lung cancer surgery, and have generated a predictive score using predominantly objective information. There are obvious advantages over the frequently quoted Thoracoscore which contains more subjective assessments of patient performance, and is based on data from a wide range of thoracic procedures including those for benign ...

Whose Right Is It Anyway ?

The people of Sunkesula village are not happy. 500 families in the tiny village in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh gave up 860 acres of their land to the Forest Department for the expansion of the Great Indian Bustard Wildlife Sanctuary (famous for the endangered blackbuck). The reservoir that was their source of stored-water now lies within the sanctuary. Access to it is denied. No...