Bombay Brokers

Herausgeber: Björkman, Lisa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bombay Brokers collect thirty-six character profiles of men and women whose knowledge and laborâ which is often seen as morally suspectâ are essential for navigating everyday life in Bombay, one of the world's most complex, dynamic, and populous cities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011491
• ISBN-10: 1478011491
• Artikelnr.: 59763378

Autorenporträt

Lisa Björkman, editor

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  viii
Introduction. Ethnography in the Global Interregnum / Lisa Björkman  1
Part I. Development / Rachel Sturman  47
1. Bunty: Singh Builder of Dreams / Lalitha Kamath  59
2. Imran: Housing Contractor / Tobias Baitsch  68
3. Dalpat: Manager of Services / Lisa Björkman  78
4. Mehmoodbhai: Toilet Operator / Prasad Khanolkar  87
5. Kaushal: Land Agglomerator / Llerena Guiu Searle  95
6. Janu: Sister-Supervisor of Migrant Construction Workers / Uday Chandra 
101
Part II. Property. Lisa Björkman  109
7. Dr. K: Middle-Class Social Worker / Yaffa Truelove  121
8. Ashok Ravat: Shivaji Park's Sentinel / Lalit Vachani  128
9. Shazia: Proof Maker / Sangeeta Banerji  137
10. Nirmala: Kamathipura's Gatekeeper / Ratoola Kunda  145
11. Farhad: "Sue Maker" / Leilah Vevaina  154
Part III. Business / Tarini Bedi  163
12. Ramita: Surrogacy Agent / Daisy Deomampo  175
13. Muhammad: Revalorizer of E-Waste / Aneri Taskar  182
14. Deepak: Making Mumbai (in China) / Ka-Kin Cheuk  191
15. Lubaina: Framing "Development" / Lubaina Rangwala  199
16. Shankar: Delivering Authenticity / Ken Kuroda  208
17. Manal-Muna: Cooking Up Value / Tarini Bedi  216
18. Ramji: Business Energizer / Lisa Björkman  224
Part IV. Difference / Anjali Arondekar  233
19. Bhimsen Gaikwad: Singer of Justice / Shailaja Paik  243
20. Sultan: Image Manager / David J. Strohl  253
21. Raj: Carting Cosmopolitanism / Maura Finkelstein  262
22. Laxmi: Dealer in Emotion / R. Swaminathan  270
23. Dharamsey: Assembler of Tradition / Edward Simpson  278
24. Dalvi: Speaker of Cities / Gautam Pemmaraju  286
Part V. Publics / Lisa Björkman and Michael Collins  297
25. Shashi: Dot Connector / Rohan Shivkumar  307
26. Anil Prakash: Amplifier of Cinema-Industrial Connections / Kathryn
Hardy  315
27. Gauravpant Mishra: Crowd Maker / Sarthak Bagchi 322
28. Srinivasan: Kingmaker / Simon Chauchard  329
29. Madhu: Door Opener / Bhushan Korgaonkar  337
30. Poornima: Designing Relations / Ajay Gandhi  347
Part VI. Truth / Lisa Björkman  355
31. Rajani Pandit: Detector of "Truths" / Srimati Basu  367
32. Afzal Taximan: Rumor Navigator / Sahana Udupa  378
33. Pawan: Prison Master / Atreyee Sen  384
34. Sujit: Master Communicator / Annelies Kusters  391
35. Chadda: Report Maker / Prasad Shetty & Rupali Gupte  401
36. Prakash: Data Entrepreneur / Amita Bhide  405
Conclusion. Other Places, Other Times / Lisa Mitchell  414
Glossary  425
About the Contributors  437
Index  441