Waiting town : life in transit and Mumbai's other world-class histories / Lisa Bjorkman
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TextPublication details: India Asia Shorts 2020Description: 152 pISBN: - 9780924304934
- 954.792053 BJO-L
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Drawing on research carried out over a decade in the Indian city of Mumbai, Waiting Town is an ethnographic monograph about the fraught relationship between the word and the world - about the materiality of signs and the 'truths' that they seek to instantiate (and represent). On one level, Waiting Town is a book about Mumbai: about housing schemes and scams, about 'duplicate' documents (and duplicate 'duplicates'), and about the wreckage left in the wake of the city's 'world-class' ambitions. And at the same time, the book has broader ambitions: it is a story about the craft of ethnography: about how we know the world, about truth and falsehood, about time and memory, about the practices of interpretation and meaning-making that comprise the techniques of research, and about the promises and pitfalls of knowledge-production more generally
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