The Social Life of Streets in India: Histories, Contestations and Subjectivities
Sadan Jha, Gauri Bharaten Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 dec 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789354356858
ISBN-10: 9354356850
Pagini: 438
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic India
Locul publicării:New Delhi, India
ISBN-10: 9354356850
Pagini: 438
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic India
Locul publicării:New Delhi, India
Caracteristici
Draws from a diverse body of scholarship and engages with historical aspects of streets, the physicality of street through anthropology, urban geography, social theory and urban studies
Notă biografică
Sadan Jha is Associate Professor at Centre for Social Studies, Surat. He is trained in the discipline of history (modern Indian history) and his research interests are in two broad areas: history of visuality and contemporary urban experience. In these fields, he has been working on history of symbols and icons, nation and nationalism, literature, history of colours, contemporary Surat and its transformation in recent decades.Gauri Bharat is Associate Professor and Program Chair of Architectural History and Research at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India. She researches indigenous architecture, politics of place-making in India, and more recently, histories of materials and making.
Cuprins
List of Table, Figures and Maps Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Streets Have Social Lives -Sadan Jha and Gauri Bharat2 Becoming Streets: Rhythms and Geographies of Urban Practice in Bhuj -Himanshu Burte, Aditya Singh and Bhawna Jaimini 3 Street and Its Subalterns: Conversations on the Go -Sadan Jha 4 Sarani to Dharani: Street Life and the Remaking of Kolkata's Pasts-Aparajita De 5 Mobilising a Folk Art: Madhubani Paintings and the Aesthetic Transformation of a Patna Streetscape - Sprya Sharma 6 Class, Consumption and Culture: High Streets and the Neoliberal Imagination of the Indian Cities - Debapriya Ganguly and Rakesh M. Krishnan 7 Memories and Possibilities of Un/Equal Street: Linking Road, Mumbai-Kamalika Banerjee 8 Street-Space or Road-Space? Contested Mobility in Ahmedabad-Rutul Joshi 9 Theorising Contestations over Decongesting Street Economies: Beyond Narratives of Inevitable Dispossessions and Shared Commons-Varun Patil 10 The Messy Lives of Chokepoints: Infrastructure and Streets in the Hilly Town of Kalimpong-Anisa Bhutia 11 Taps, Walls, Seats: The Contested Street Commons in Veli, Kerala-Eva Thomas and Aishwarya Padmanabhan 12 Festivals on the Street-Aishwarya Morwal 13 Roadside Shrines in Ahmedabad: Subalternity, Religious Politics and the Shaping of the Street as aPublic Realm-Gauri Bharat 14 Thinking through the Residual Shrines on the Roads of SEZ Hyderabad-Baishali Ghosh 15 Four Gullies and a Fortnight-Richa Jha Endnotes Index About the Editors and Contributors