Roma Chatterji

Living With Violence

An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life

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Produktbeschreibung

This book gives a detailed account of thecommunal riots between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1992-93. The explore the role language, work, housing and rehabilitation have on the lives of those who live with violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780367176051
• ISBN-10: 036717605X
• Artikelnr.: 57457379

Autorenporträt

Roma Chatterji teaches at the Department of sociology, Delhi University. Apart from her research in the subject of the state and everyday life, her interests are in folklore and print culture, governmentality, illness narratives and folk art. She has published in edited volumes and journals of international repute, and has recently completed a monograph on folklore and print culture in West Bengal. Deepak Mehta is at the Department of Sociology, Delhi University. He works on Muslim societies in India and on the sociology of material culture. Dr Mehta is the author of Work, Ritual Biography: A Muslim Community in North India.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Nation
State and Violence in Dharavi 2. Documents and Testimony: Violence
Witnessing and Subjectivity in the Bombay Riots 1992-93 3. Boundaries
Names
Alterities: The Riot in Dharavi 4. Communal Violence
Public Spaces and the Unmaking of Men 5. Plans
Habitation and Slum Redevelopment: The Production of Community 6. Governmental Technologies and Institutional Practice: NGOs and the Slum Dwellers Voice. Bibliography. Index