Book Discussion - The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure
Friday, March 4, 2022 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM EST
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The Global South Research Hub is organizing a book discussion on the newly released "The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure". Panelists will include Miriam Ticktin (CUNY Graduate Center), Kristin Monroe (University of Kentucky), and the author, Rashmi Sadana (George Mason University).
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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 is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. She has also authored English Heart, Hindi Heartland: The Political Life of Literature in India.Panelists
Kristin V. Monroe is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of Kentucky and the Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Islamic Studies Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of The Insecure City: Space, Mobility, and Power (Rutgers University Press, 2016).
Miriam Ticktin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France (UC Press, 2011).
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