How Long to Read City Requiem, Calcutta

How Long Does it Take to Read City Requiem, Calcutta?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 13 minutes to read City Requiem, Calcutta by Ananya Roy

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta; overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban labor markets in a daily commute against hunger; land is settled and claimed in a complex choreography of squatting and evictions: such, Ananya Roy contends, are the distinctive spaces of a communism for the new millennium -- where, at a moment of liberalization, the hegemony of poverty is quietly reproduced. An ethnography of urban development in Calcutta, Roy's book explores the dynamics of class and gender in the persistence of poverty. City Requiem, Calcutta emphasizes how gender itself is spatialized, and how gender relations are negotiated within the geopolitics of modernity and through the everyday practices of territory. Thus Roy shows how urban developmentalism, in its populist guise, reproduces the relations of masculinist patronage, and, in its entrepreneurial guise, seeks to reclaim a bourgeois Calcutta, gentlemanly in its nostalgias. In doing so, her work expands the field of poverty studies by showing how a politics of poverty is also a poverty of knowledge, a construction and management of social and spatial categories.

How long is City Requiem, Calcutta?

City Requiem, Calcutta by Ananya Roy is 306 pages long, and a total of 78,336 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read City Requiem, Calcutta Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 8 minutes to read City Requiem, Calcutta aloud.

What Reading Level is City Requiem, Calcutta?

City Requiem, Calcutta is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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