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London Patidars A Case Study in Urban Ethnicity

London Patidars A Case Study in Urban Ethnicity

First Published in 1980 London Patidars presents the case study of the Patidars a landowning caste from the Indian state of Gujarat in London. Patidars being the landowning caste has taken over much of the ideology of the merchant castes. This ‘merchant ideal’ is a central part of their self-image. It is an incitement to initiative in business and to some extent their actual economic behaviour does reflect the ideal. But the cases studied do not all conform to this ideal and they pose questions: How does this particular type of ethnic boundary relate to the opportunities of the individual Patidar? Why and how is this boundary maintained? Harald Tambs-Lyche concludes that the form given to the ethnic boundary is advantageous to many Patidars but not to all in the same degree. This raises problems which potentially could change the present pattern. Other potential problems relate to their relationship with the English. As successful merchants they risk becoming objects of envy like formerly the Jewish community. This book is a must read for scholars of ethnic and race relations and sociology. | London Patidars A Case Study in Urban Ethnicity

GBP 85.00
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The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture Reception and Legacy

The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture Reception and Legacy

Today nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy questions about the built legacy of the regime provoke polemics among architects and scholars. Mussolini’s government constructed thousands of new buildings across the Italian Peninsula and islands and in colonial territories. From hospitals post offices and stadia to housing summer camps Fascist Party Headquarters ceremonial spaces roads railways and bridges the physical traces of the regime have a presence in nearly every Italian town. The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture investigates what has become of the architectural and urban projects of Italian fascism how sites have been transformed or adapted and what constitutes the meaning of these buildings and cities today. The essays include a rich array of new arguments by both senior and early career scholars from Italy and beyond. They examine the reception of fascist architecture through studies of destruction and adaptation debates over reuse artistic interventions and even routine daily practices which may slowly alter collective understandings of such places. Paolo Portoghesi sheds light on the subject from his internal perspective while Harald Bodenschatz situates Italy among period totalitarian authorities and their symbols across Europe. Section editors frame synthesize and moderate essays that explore fascism’s afterlife; how the physical legacy of the regime has been altered and preserved and what it means now. This critical history of interpretations of fascist-era architecture and urban projects broadens our understanding of the relationships among politics identity memory and place. This companion will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields including Italian history architectural history cultural studies visual sociology political science and art history. | The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture Reception and Legacy

GBP 42.99
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