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Item Open Access “Dreaming of Diasporas: Urban Developments and Transnational Identities in Contemporary Kolkata”(Wilfred Laurier University Press & Cape Breton University Press, 2007) Bose, PabloThis paper examines the contested nature of diasporas and their complex involvement in dynamics of international development by focusing on the recent construction of luxury condominiums on the fringes of the Indian metropolis of Kolkata. These new housing projects are built and marketed with a self- consciously global aesthetic and are actively promoted to both overseas Indian communities and local elites as spaces in which one can take up an explicitly “internationalâ€� identity. This paper argues that these discourses and developments regarding life-space and lifestyle are part of a broader project intended to help Kolkata regain its glory as a “world city.â€� Furthermore, it is suggested that the deployment of the heavily mythologized figure of the global Indian is a crucial element for mobilizing key actors and constituting material transformations in the postcolonial city.Item Open Access “Home and Away: Diasporas, Developments and Displacements in a Globalizing World”(Taylor and Francis, 2008) Bose, PabloThis paper examines the involvement of Indian diasporic communities in the dynamics of economic development and population displacement within the Indian subcontinent itself. I argue that the category of diaspora can help to critically interrogate and challenge traditional notions of development and displacement and in doing so help to illuminate the complexities of such processes in the light of globalisation and transnationalism. I examine the historical context of diasporas and their involvement in processes of development and consider questions of identity, place, home and connection between people and the nation-state. I also look at the specific case of Indian diasporas and the impact they have had on the financial and cultural development of India in the recent past. Wile much of the current research on the connections between development and diasporas worldwide has focused on remittances, this paper argues for a wider understanding of both "diasporic capital" - including investments, property ownership and trade - and of "diasporic culture" - as demonstrated by globalised patterns of travel, tourism, communications, cultural production and the creation of living spaces with a self-consciously transnational aesthetic.