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Dis/continuing in/justices-to-come in ‘ghost town’ Nava Raipur India
Ghostlike visualisations depicting green development haunt the future of urban space as they de- and re-materialise in cities across the planet. Arguably such apparitions are part of a contemporary green dispositif,1 a heterogenous network of human and nonhuman relations that sets the conditions of possibility for future life. Such images tend to circulate from North to South, and spread particular ideologies as they flow.2 Against this background, and diffracted through Karen Barad’s more-than- human hauntology,3 the following essay asks: in what ways do images, imaginaries, and motifs of future green cities shape and materialise ‘injustices-to-come’ in the case of Nava Raipur, Chhattisgarh India? Grounded in site work and subsequent discourse analysis of newspapers, websites, social me- dia, and planning policy documents the essay tracks the im/material and discursive entanglements that perform and co-constitute Nava Raipur’s past, present, and future, a deeply relational process conceived of here as an urban spectral sympoiesis, 4 that is, as defined in what follows, a multitempo- ral and multispatial becoming-with ghosts in relational city-making processes.
Dis/continuing in/justices-to-come in ‘ghost town’ Nava Raipur India
Ghostlike visualisations depicting green development haunt the future of urban space as they de- and re-materialise in cities across the planet. Arguably such apparitions are part of a contemporary green dispositif,1 a heterogenous network of human and nonhuman relations that sets the conditions of possibility for future life. Such images tend to circulate from North to South, and spread particular ideologies as they flow.2 Against this background, and diffracted through Karen Barad’s more-than- human hauntology,3 the following essay asks: in what ways do images, imaginaries, and motifs of future green cities shape and materialise ‘injustices-to-come’ in the case of Nava Raipur, Chhattisgarh India? Grounded in site work and subsequent discourse analysis of newspapers, websites, social me- dia, and planning policy documents the essay tracks the im/material and discursive entanglements that perform and co-constitute Nava Raipur’s past, present, and future, a deeply relational process conceived of here as an urban spectral sympoiesis, 4 that is, as defined in what follows, a multitempo- ral and multispatial becoming-with ghosts in relational city-making processes.
Dis/continuing in/justices-to-come in ‘ghost town’ Nava Raipur India
Jamie-Scott Baxter (author)
2023
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