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Bombay brokers / edited by Lisa Björkman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Delhi : Yoda Press, 2022Description: xii, 452 pages : photos, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789382579342 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Bombay brokersDDC classification:
  • 305.800952 BOM 23 019038
Contents:
Urban Ethnography in the Global Interregnum / Lisa Björkman -- Development / Rachel Sturman -- Bunty Singh: Builder of Dreams / Lalitha Kamath -- Imran: Housing Contractor / Tobias Baitsch -- Dalpat: Manager of Services / Lisa Björkman -- Mehmoodbhai: Toilet Operator / Prasad Khanolkar -- Kaushal: Land Agglomerator / Llerena Guiu Searle -- Janu: Sister-Supervisor of Migrant Construction Workers / Uday Chandra -- Property / Lisa Björkman -- Dr. K: Middle-Class Social-worker / Yaffa Truelove -- Ashok Ravat: Shivaji Park's Sentinel / Lalit Vachani -- Shazia: Proof Maker / Sangeeta Banerji -- Nirmala: Kamathipura's Gatekeeper -- / Ratoola Kundu -- Farhad: 'Sue Maker' / Leilah Vevaina -- Business / Tarini Bedi -- Ramita: Surrogacy Agent / Daisy Deomampo -- Muhammad: Revalorizer of e-waste / Aneri Taskar -- Deepak: Making Mumbai (in China) / Ka-Kin Cheuk -- Lubaina: Framing 'Development' / Lubaina Rangwala -- Shankar: Delivering Authenticity / Ken Kuroda -- Mehrun-Nissa: Cooking up Value / Tarini Bedi -- Ramji: Business Energizer / Lisa Björkman -- Difference / Anjali Arondekar -- Bhimsen Gaikwad: Singer of Justice / Shailaja Paik -- Sultan: Image Manager / David Strohl -- Raj: Carting Cosmopolitanism / Maura Finkelstein -- Laxmi: Dealer in Emotion / R. Swaminathan -- Dharmsey: Assembler of Tradition / Edward Simpson -- Dalvi: Speaker of Cities / Gautam Pemmaraju -- Publics / Lisa Björkman and Michael Collins -- Shashi: Dot Connector / Rohan Shivkumar -- Anil Prakash: Amplifier of Cinema-Industrial Connection / Kathryn Hardy -- Gauravpant Mishra: Crowd-Maker / Sarthak Bagchi -- Srinivasan: Kingmaker / Simon Chauchard -- Madhu: Door Opener / Bhushan Koregaonkar -- Poornima: Designing Relations / Ajay Gandhi -- Truth / Lisa Björkman -- Rajani Pandit: Detector of Truths / Srimati Basu -- Pawan: Prison Master / Atreyee Sen -- AfzalTaximan: Rumour Navigator / Sahana Udupa -- Sujit: Master Communicator / Annelies Kusters -- Chadda: Report Maker / Prasad Shetty and Rupali Gupte -- Prakash: Data Entrepreneur / Amita Bhide -- Other Places, Other Times.
Summary: "Bombay Brokers is a collaborative ethnography about people whose material and practical expertise animate the everyday workings in and of one of the world's more dynamic cities, but whose labors are simultaneously (and paradoxically) subject to much moralizing hand-wringing. The book takes this paradox-the ethically fraught yet indispensable character of certain kinds of knowledge and labor-as a methodological and analytical jumping-off point for exploring broader questions about global-level transformations: economic, technological, political, socio-material, ideational"--
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 305.800952 BOM 019038 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 019038
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Includes index.

Urban Ethnography in the Global Interregnum / Lisa Björkman -- Development / Rachel Sturman -- Bunty Singh: Builder of Dreams / Lalitha Kamath -- Imran: Housing Contractor / Tobias Baitsch -- Dalpat: Manager of Services / Lisa Björkman -- Mehmoodbhai: Toilet Operator / Prasad Khanolkar -- Kaushal: Land Agglomerator / Llerena Guiu Searle -- Janu: Sister-Supervisor of Migrant Construction Workers / Uday Chandra -- Property / Lisa Björkman -- Dr. K: Middle-Class Social-worker / Yaffa Truelove -- Ashok Ravat: Shivaji Park's Sentinel / Lalit Vachani -- Shazia: Proof Maker / Sangeeta Banerji -- Nirmala: Kamathipura's Gatekeeper -- / Ratoola Kundu -- Farhad: 'Sue Maker' / Leilah Vevaina -- Business / Tarini Bedi -- Ramita: Surrogacy Agent / Daisy Deomampo -- Muhammad: Revalorizer of e-waste / Aneri Taskar -- Deepak: Making Mumbai (in China) / Ka-Kin Cheuk -- Lubaina: Framing 'Development' / Lubaina Rangwala -- Shankar: Delivering Authenticity / Ken Kuroda -- Mehrun-Nissa: Cooking up Value / Tarini Bedi -- Ramji: Business Energizer / Lisa Björkman -- Difference / Anjali Arondekar -- Bhimsen Gaikwad: Singer of Justice / Shailaja Paik -- Sultan: Image Manager / David Strohl -- Raj: Carting Cosmopolitanism / Maura Finkelstein -- Laxmi: Dealer in Emotion / R. Swaminathan -- Dharmsey: Assembler of Tradition / Edward Simpson -- Dalvi: Speaker of Cities / Gautam Pemmaraju -- Publics / Lisa Björkman and Michael Collins -- Shashi: Dot Connector / Rohan Shivkumar -- Anil Prakash: Amplifier of Cinema-Industrial Connection / Kathryn Hardy -- Gauravpant Mishra: Crowd-Maker / Sarthak Bagchi -- Srinivasan: Kingmaker / Simon Chauchard -- Madhu: Door Opener / Bhushan Koregaonkar -- Poornima: Designing Relations / Ajay Gandhi -- Truth / Lisa Björkman -- Rajani Pandit: Detector of Truths / Srimati Basu -- Pawan: Prison Master / Atreyee Sen -- AfzalTaximan: Rumour Navigator / Sahana Udupa -- Sujit: Master Communicator / Annelies Kusters -- Chadda: Report Maker / Prasad Shetty and Rupali Gupte -- Prakash: Data Entrepreneur / Amita Bhide -- Other Places, Other Times.

"Bombay Brokers is a collaborative ethnography about people whose material and practical expertise animate the everyday workings in and of one of the world's more dynamic cities, but whose labors are simultaneously (and paradoxically) subject to much moralizing hand-wringing. The book takes this paradox-the ethically fraught yet indispensable character of certain kinds of knowledge and labor-as a methodological and analytical jumping-off point for exploring broader questions about global-level transformations: economic, technological, political, socio-material, ideational"--

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