The Industrial Ephemeral – Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century

"The Industrial Ephemeral is a compelling chronicle of the fast pace of urban development in India from a seemingly inconspicuous and forgotten angle: the unique ins and outs of the transient construction sites that dot the landscape and soundscape of most large cities in the Global South. This is the kind of book that needs to be written for every large city as an indispensable companion to critical urban theory. It amply demonstrates why Dharia is one of the most farsighted architectural and anthropological analysts of urban worlds at present."--Arturo Escobar, author of Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds