Congratulations Dr. Rashmi Sadana on her new book, The Moving City

Congratulations Dr. Rashmi Sadana on her new book, The Moving City

The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure

About the Book

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.

Visit the Publisher:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383968/the-moving-city

For further reading, a blog-post on the book:
https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/57565/the-understudied-social-lives-of-public-transit/

About the Author

Rashmi Sadana RASHMI SADANA is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. She is the author of The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure and English Heart, Hindi Heartland: The Political Life of Literature in India.
 
 

 

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