TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Social conflict and the neoliberal city: a case of Hindu–Muslim violence in India
JO  - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
A1  - Chatterjee, Ipsita
SP  - 143
EP  - 160
VL  - 34
IS  - 2
N2  - In an era of globalisation the ‘global’ is very much implicated in the ‘local’. Local events like conflicts therefore need to be understood in the context of the dynamics of globalisation. This paper argues that neoliberal globalisation undergoes a thorough grounding in accordance with the pre-existing socio-cultural and economic specificities of places, which impact upon inter-community alienation and conflict. Using four case studies from a Hindu–Muslim conflict in a neoliberalising city, Ahmedabad, India, this paper illustrates how open market policies are implicated in local industrial restructuring and urban renewal that simultaneously utilise place-specific ethnocentrism to exclude and fragment the poor.<p /> 
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SN  - 0020-2754
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00341.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -