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Ideology Politics in Urban Spaces the New Modus Operandi of Political Ideology Dissemination in Indian Scenario

Author(s):

Anjith Augustine , City Futures Design Collaborative; Rakhi Mariam, KMEA College of Architecture

Keywords:

Politics, public space ideology, urban weapon of politics

Abstract

Gone are the times when swords and missiles where used to propagate an ideology over another. While history has witnessed many wars between the nations and the two World wars, modern notions have completely changed. The new leaders have found far more dangerous weapons than the nuclear missiles or the warships. Hitler used ‘Race’ as the idea to instill fear among people. ‘Religion’ also has been used as a tool extensively to divide and propagate an agenda. Recently ‘media’ has been used to infiltrate political ideologies within the people. More recently we have started witnessing urban spaces as carriers of changing political ideologies. This has been practiced in different scales at various parts of the country and have shown results which are alarming. The papers tries to dissect this new political strategy of ideology dissemination and the methods applied in this modern politics.

Other Details

Paper ID: IJSRDV8I20326
Published in: Volume : 8, Issue : 2
Publication Date: 01/05/2020
Page(s): 211-214

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