Chatterjee, Ipsita (, Ipsita Chatterjee is Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of North Texas)

Spectacular Cities: Religion, Landscape, and the Dialectics of Globalization Chatterjee, Ipsita (, Ipsita Chatterjee is Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of North Texas)

Academic work on globalization often tends to segment it into either economic globalization or cultural globalization, or political globalization. This book explores spectacular landscapes of the Akshardham temples in Gandhinagar and Delhi in India, and Atlanta, Dallas, Houston in the U. S. to understand globalization as it unfolds in a culture economy synthesis. It demonstrates how culture, economy, and spectacular landscapes in tandem produce globalization throughmigrant narratives, migrant landscapes, and theme park religious complexes.