Abstract
In Kerala transformations of human habitations are happening at a fast pace. The effects are felt on a vast range of habitats from houses and immediate surroundings to fields, hillocks, waterways, and across the remaining urban hinterlands. Any black and white distinctions between rural and urban are difficult here because of the overlapping infrastructure, proximity, accessibility, occupational nature, or distribution of people. There are predominantly small towns, and the villages too are never too far away. The distinctions are mostly in terms of the broad geographical divisions such as coasts, midlands, and high ranges. With the welfare apparatus based on land redistributions, public health, labour norms, and universal education giving way to unprecedented corporate interventions, spectacles may well be in the making across landscapes.
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Varghese, M.A. (2023). Prolegomenon to the Spectacles in the Making. In: Entangled Ecologies as Metaphors of State Design. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46518-5_4
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