Bombay Brokers
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1149-1 (ISBN)
A political party worker who produces crowds for electoral rallies. A “prison specialist” who serves other people’s prison sentences in exchange for a large fee. An engineer who is able to secure otherwise impossible building permits. These and other dealmakers—whose behind-the-scenes expertise and labor are often invisible—have an intrinsic role in the city's functioning and can be indispensable for navigating everyday life in Bombay, one of the world’s most complex, dynamic, and populous cities. Bombay Brokers collects profiles of thirty-six such “brokers.” Written by anthropologists, artists, city planners, and activists, these character sketches bring into relief the paradox that these brokers’ knowledge and labor are simultaneously invisible yet essential for Bombay’s functioning. Their centrality reveals the global-scale paradoxes and gaps that these brokers mediate and bridge. In this way, Bombay Brokers prompts a reconsideration of what counts as legitimate and valuable knowledge and labor while offering insight into changing structures of power in Bombay and around the globe.
Contributors. Anjali Arondekar, Sarthak Bagchi, Tobias Baitsch, Sangeeta Banerji, Srimati Basu, Tarini Bedi, Amita Bhide, Lisa Björkman, Uday Chandra, Simon Chauchard, Ka-Kin Cheuk, Michael Collins, Daisy Deomampo, Maura Finkelstein, Ajay Gandhi, Rupali Gupte, Kathryn C. Hardy, Lalitha Kamath, Prasad Khanolkar, Bhushan Korgaonkar, Ratoola Kundu, Ken Kuroda, Annelies Kusters, Lisa Mitchell, Shailaja Paik, Gautam Pemmaraju, Lubaina Rangwala, Llerena Guiu Searle, Atreyee Sen, Prasad Shetty, Rohan Shivkumar, Edward Simpson, David Strohl, Rachel Sturman, R. Swaminathan, Aneri Taskar, Yaffa Truelove, Sahana Udupa, Lalit Vachani, Leilah Vevaina
Lisa Björkman is Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Louisville, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, and author of Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai, also published by Duke University Press, and Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai's Other World-Class Histories.
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction. Ethnography in the Global Interregnum / Lisa Björkman 1
Part I. Development / Rachel Sturman 47
1. Bunty: Singh Builder of Dreams / Lalitha Kamath 59
2. Imran: Housing Contractor / Tobias Baitsch 68
3. Dalpat: Manager of Services / Lisa Björkman 78
4. Mehmoodbhai: Toilet Operator / Prasad Khanolkar 87
5. Kaushal: Land Agglomerator / Llerena Guiu Searle 95
6. Janu: Sister-Supervisor of Migrant Construction Workers / Uday Chandra 101
Part II. Property. Lisa Björkman 109
7. Dr. K: Middle-Class Social Worker / Yaffa Truelove 121
8. Ashok Ravat: Shivaji Park's Sentinel / Lalit Vachani 128
9. Shazia: Proof Maker / Sangeeta Banerji 137
10. Nirmala: Kamathipura's Gatekeeper / Ratoola Kunda 145
11. Farhad: "Sue Maker" / Leilah Vevaina 154
Part III. Business / Tarini Bedi 163
12. Ramita: Surrogacy Agent / Daisy Deomampo 175
13. Muhammad: Revalorizer of E-Waste / Aneri Taskar 182
14. Deepak: Making Mumbai (in China) / Ka-Kin Cheuk 191
15. Lubaina: Framing "Development" / Lubaina Rangwala 199
16. Shankar: Delivering Authenticity / Ken Kuroda 208
17. Manal-Muna: Cooking Up Value / Tarini Bedi 216
18. Ramji: Business Energizer / Lisa Björkman 224
Part IV. Difference / Anjali Arondekar 233
19. Bhimsen Gaikwad: Singer of Justice / Shailaja Paik 243
20. Sultan: Image Manager / David J. Strohl 253
21. Raj: Carting Cosmopolitanism / Maura Finkelstein 262
22. Laxmi: Dealer in Emotion / R. Swaminathan 270
23. Dharamsey: Assembler of Tradition / Edward Simpson 278
24. Dalvi: Speaker of Cities / Gautam Pemmaraju 286
Part V. Publics / Lisa Björkman and Michael Collins 297
25. Shashi: Dot Connector / Rohan Shivkumar 307
26. Anil Prakash: Amplifier of Cinema-Industrial Connections / Kathryn Hardy 315
27. Gauravpant Mishra: Crowd Maker / Sarthak Bagchi 322
28. Srinivasan: Kingmaker / Simon Chauchard 329
29. Madhu: Door Opener / Bhushan Korgaonkar 337
30. Poornima: Designing Relations / Ajay Gandhi 347
Part VI. Truth / Lisa Björkman 355
31. Rajani Pandit: Detector of "Truths" / Srimati Basu 367
32. Afzal Taximan: Rumor Navigator / Sahana Udupa 378
33. Pawan: Prison Master / Atreyee Sen 384
34. Sujit: Master Communicator / Annelies Kusters 391
35. Chadda: Report Maker / Prasad Shetty & Rupali Gupte 401
36. Prakash: Data Entrepreneur / Amita Bhide 405
Conclusion. Other Places, Other Times / Lisa Mitchell 414
Glossary 425
About the Contributors 437
Index 441
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 33 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 658 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-1149-1 / 1478011491 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-1149-1 / 9781478011491 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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