{"product_id":"corruption-plots-stories-ethics-and-publics-of-the-late-capitalist-city-9781501768750","title":"Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCorruption Plots\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e illuminates how corruption is fundamental to global storytelling about how states and elites abuse entrusted power in late capitalism.\u003c\/b\u003e The millennial city of the global South is a charged setting for allegations of corruption, with skyscrapers, land grabs, and slum evictions invoking outrage at deepening economic polarization. Drawing on ethnography in Bengaluru and Mumbai and a cross-section of literary and cinematic stories from cities around the world, Malini Ranganathan, David L. Pike, and Sapana Doshi pay close attention to the racial, caste, class, and gender locations of the narrators, spaces, and publics imagined to be harmed by corruption. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCorruption Plots\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how corruption talk is leveraged to make sense of unequal spatial change and used opportunistically by those who are themselves implicated in wrongdoing. Offering a wide-ranging analysis of urban worlds, the authors reveal the ethical, spatial, and political stakes of storytelling and how vital it is to examine the corruption plot in all its contradictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalini Ranganathan is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University and coeditor of the book \u003ci\u003eRethinking Difference in India through Racialization\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Pike is Professor of Literature and Film at American University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSubterranean Cities\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMetropolis on the Styx\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eCold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSapana Doshi is Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Merced. She has published on urban and environmental politics in journals such as \u003ci\u003eAntipode\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAnnals of the American Association of Geographers\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e International Journal of Urban and Regional Research\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eGeopolitics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50486456746258,"sku":"9781501768750","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5604c5c6-d87d-43e5-bdbb-7ff3c635348a.jpg?v=1730428223","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/corruption-plots-stories-ethics-and-publics-of-the-late-capitalist-city-9781501768750","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}