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...

A destination image is `the expression of all objective knowledge, impressions, prejudice, imaginations, and emotional thoughts an individual or group might have of a particular place' (Lawson and Baud Bovy, 1977). Destination images in ̄uence a tourist's travel decision-making, cognition and behaviour at a destination as well as satisfaction levels and recollection of the experience. This paper...

For reasons similar to those I have propounded regarding the matter of fungi in cholera evacuations, it seems to me to have been unnecessary for Dr. Lewis, in the report before me, to enter into an explanation of the appearances presented by animalcula), common to the water of certain drains and tanks in Calcutta, and cholera stools. Not only do I fail to understand the practical advantage to b...

Empirically focusing on the so-called anti-gang, a civilian policing group in city of Goma (DRC), this article examines nexus between workings imagination and politics everyday policing. Four forms political imaginations through which anti-gang imagine themselves as actors are identified: around state, citizenship, father, martial arts action movies. The makes two main arguments. First, not mer...