Parker, Ian (2018) Auroville: City of the Dawn, City of the Future, Now. Teknokultura, 15 (2). pp. 379-386. ISSN 1549-2230
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Abstract
This paper briefly describes the formation, present-day functioning and problems facing the futuristic city ‘Auroville’ in the state of Tamil Nadu in south India. Founded in 1968 as a ‘universal’ city, and planned to have 50,000 inhabitants that would, its founders declared, take the next step in human evolution to exist as a self-sustaining community independent of nation states. Auroville manifests another utopian attempt to create a ‘common’ space which resonates with communist hopes to reclaim the commons from capitalist enclosure. This paper explores the problems that face Auroville when it creates its ‘commons’ on existing peasant land and so becomes implicated in colonial politics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Conflict and Human Unity > Conflict and Human Unity (General) |
| Depositing User: | Admin User |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Aug 2020 04:32 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Aug 2020 04:32 |
| URI: | http://aurorepo.in/id/eprint/74 |
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