Connections and Disconnections: The Making of Bombay/Mumbai as India’s “Global City”

Authors

Ravi Ghadge, Kennesaw State UniversityFollow

Publication Date

12-1-2018

Abstract

Scholarly literature on “global cities” has been criticized for ignoring the long-term historical context within which cities articulate the relationship between the global and the local. Employing a longue durée globalization perspective, this paper historicizes the unequal and uneven nature of contemporary urban development in Mumbai, India’s “global city.” The paper uses two analytical frames: the “port city” and the “colonial city” to highlight two essential dimensions of Mumbai’s contemporary transformation of interconnectedness and segmentation based on unequal power.

Author Bio(s)

The author is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University. His research interests include urban sociology, transnational studies, and social development.

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DOI

10.32727/11.2018.232