The Moving City - Rashmi Sadana

The Moving City

Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
274 Seiten
2021
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38395-1 (ISBN)
88,50 inkl. MwSt
The Moving City is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the story of Delhi's Metro, a massive infrastructure project that is reshaping the city's social and urban landscapes. Ethnographic vignettes introduce the feel and form of the Metro and let readers experience the city, scene by scene, stop by stop, as if they, too, have come along for the ride. Laying bare the radical possibilities and concretized inequalities of the Metro, and how people live with and through its built environment, this is a story of women and men on the move, the nature of Indian aspiration, and what it takes morally and materially to sustain urban life. Through exquisite prose, Rashmi Sadana transports the reader to a city shaped by both its Metro and those who depend on it, revealing a perspective on Delhi unlike any other.

Rashmi Sadana is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University and author of English Heart, Hindi Heartland: The Political Life of Literature in India.

Introduction 

Part I Crowded
The Train to Dwarka
Mandi House
Vanita
The Image of the City
Metro Bhawan
Space and Matter
Red Line
Resident Welfare
Okhla Station
Naipaul on the Metro
Nukkad Natak
Mumbai
Urban Hazards
Ramlila Maidan
From Badarpur
Yellow Line
Drishti
A Developed Country
Social Space
Seelampur Station
Pressure Cooker
Blue Line
Delhi-6
Bus Rapid Transit
The Bicycle Fixer

Part II Expanding
A Road's Geography
The Gangway
Spontaneous Urbanism
Nehru Place
Rupali
Chief Minister
City of Malls
Violet Line
Metal and Plastic
Appropriate Architecture
Chawri Bazar
Ajay and Gita
Ring Road
Grievance and Governance
Morning Commute
Orange Line
The Play about the Metro
Aspirational Planning
Renu and Shiv
Layers and Sediment
Green Line
Cycle Rickshaw-wala
Metro Mob
The Techno-cosmopolitan 
The Politics of Speed

Part III Visible
World Class
Strike
Bus
Infrastructure by Example
Magenta Line
Radhika
Posture
Integration
The Photo That Went Viral
Voids and Solids
Beauty Salon
Suicide 
Multiple Choice
Jahnavi
Café Coffee Day
Looks 
Street Survey
Aasif 
E-rickshaws
Love Marriage and a Head Injury
Fare Hike 
At Home in Dakshinpuri
Dilli Haat
Pink Line
City Park

Epilogue

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 25 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 499 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-520-38395-8 / 0520383958
ISBN-13 978-0-520-38395-1 / 9780520383951
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