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This is the first book to examine the growth and phenomenon of a securitized and criminalized compliance which relies increasingly on intelligence-led and predictive technologies to control future risks, crimes, and security threats. It articulates the emergence of a 'compliance-industrial complex' that synthesizes regulatory capitalism and surveillance capitalism to impose new regimes of power and control, as well as new forms of subjectivity subservient to the 'operating system' of a pre-crime society. Looking at compliance beyond frameworks of business management, corporate governance, law, and accounting, it analyses it as a social phenomenon, instrumental in the pluralization and privatization of policing, where the private intelligence, private security, and big tech companies are being concentrated at the very core of compliance, and hence, governance of the social. This critical work draws on transversal, rather than interdisciplinary, approaches and integrates disparate perspectives, inspired by works in critical criminology, critical algorithm studies, critical management studies, as well as social anthropology and philosophy.

Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Urban Utopias-Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal India and Sri Lanka -- Futuristic Visions of Urbanity and Socio-Economic Expulsions -- Urban Megalomaniac Visions and Heritage Utopias -- Urban Queer Utopias and Bodily Expulsions -- References -- Part I: Futuristic Visions of Urbanity and Socio-Economic Expulsions -- Chapter 2: The Impossibility of World-Class Slum-Free Indian Cities and the Fantasy of 'Two Indias' -- Introduction: World-Class Slum-Free Cities -- Žižekian Ideological Critique -- The Fantasies of Two Indias -- 'Other India as Political Society and the Survival Economy' -- 'Other India as "Leash"' -- Discussion -- Conclusion: Escaping Neoliberal Urban Fantasies -- References -- Chapter 3: Guarded Luxotopias and Expulsions in New Delhi: Aesthetics and Ideology of Outer and Inner Spaces of an Urban Utopia -- Luxotopias as a Form of Aesthetic Governance -- Luxotopia as a Developmental Paradigm: The Loss of Urbanity and Security -- Fashionable Luxotopias and the Sources of Pride of the Neo-Aristocracy -- Conclusion: Haunted Luxotopias -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa -- Growth Infrastructures and 'New India' -- Promoting Airport Development -- Mopa: Redefining 'Golden Goa' -- 'Green Goa' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Vikasanam: The Expansionist Choreography of Space-Making in Kerala -- Orders in Search for Cities: A Take from Edachira -- Yahiya of Edachira -- Vikasanam: The Contemporary Expansive Logic -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Cities of Neoliberal Future: Urban Utopia in Indian Science Fiction Cinema -- Cityscape in Bollywood Cinema -- City Spaces in a Temporal Continuum -- Neoliberalism and Urban Utopias

Artificial intelligence, deep learning and big data analytics are viewed as the technologies of the future, capable of delivering expert intelligence decisions, risk assessments and predictions within milliseconds. In a world of fakes, they promise to deliver 'hard facts' and data-driven 'truth', but their solutions resurrect ideologies of purity, embrace bogus science reminiscent of the likes of anthropometry, and create a deeply paranoid world where the Other is increasingly perceived either as a threat or as a potential imposter, or both. Social sorting in the age of intelligent surveillance acquires a whole new meaning. This article explores the possible effects of algorithmic governance on society through a critical analysis of the figure of the imposter in the age of intelligent surveillance. It links a critical analysis of new technologies of surveillance, policing and border control, to the extreme ethnographic example of paranoia within outlaw motorcycle clubs – organizations that are heavily targeted by new and old modes of policing and surveillance, while themselves increasingly embracing the very same logic and technologies themselves. With profound consequences. The article shows how in the quest for power, order, profit, and control, we are sacrificing critical reason and risk becoming as a society not unlike the paranoid criminal organizations.

Book Review of Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-capitalist city: An Ethnography by Thomas Raymen; Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019; ISBN 978-1-78743-812-5

Purpose Fetishism has been often linked to misrecognition and false belief, to one being "ideologically duped" so to speak. But could we think that fetishism may be precisely the very opposite? The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of this at first sight counterintuitive notion. It locates the problem of fetishism at the crux of the problem of disavowal and argues that one needs to distinguish between a disavowal – marked by cynical knowledge – and fetishistic disavowal, which can be understood as a subcategory of the same belief structure of ideology. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper is based on literature review and utilizes examples from the author's ethnographic fieldworks in India (2008-2013) and central Europe (2015-2019). Findings The paper provides a new insight into the structure of fetishism, relying on the psychoanalytic structure of disavowal, where all disavowal is ideological, but not all disavowal is fetishistic, thereby positing a crucial, often unacknowledged distinction. Where disavowal follows the structure "I know quite well how things are, but still […]," fetishistic disavowal follows the formula: "I don't only know how things are, but also how they appear to me, and nonetheless […]." Originality/value The paper develops an original conceptualization of fetishism by distinguishing ideological disavowal from fetishistic disavowal. ; The project "Gangs, Brands and Intellectual Property Rights: Interdisciplinary Comparative Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Luxury Brands" has received funding from The Research Council of Norway through a FRIPRO Mobility Grant, contract no 250716. The FRIPRO Mobility grant scheme (FRICON) is co-funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under Marie Curie grant agreement no 608695. ; publishedVersion

Book Review of Simon Winlow, Steve Hall, & James Treadwell, The Rise of the Right: English Nationalism and the Transformation of the Working Class, Bristol: Policy Press, 2017. ISBN 9978-1-4473-2848-3 (paperback). GBP 10.39.

Until recently, India's wealthy were held in contempt and perceived with suspicion both by the general public and the media; newspaper articles about the greedy rich and their excesses pro-liferated. However, following the global financial crisis of 2008, magazines like Forbes India began aggressively pushing the idea of the generous and caring Indian business elites, a "force of good"; annual events such as the Forbes sponsored Philanthropy Awards and art and fashion galas for a good cause became popular and the notion of philanthrocapitalism was embraced by the elite. It is argued here that behind this development is a particular convergence of underly-ing legitimation crises, the first within the realm of business and the second within the realm of fashion and the arts. These then force the two realms into collaboration in a pursuit of the com-mon goal of social legitimacy, accumulation of symbolic capital and (re)production of the pow-er mystique of the elite. The article is grounded in extensive ethnographic fieldwork among the North Indian business and fashion elite, from 2008-2013.