Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Time, space and capital in India: longing and belonging in an urban-industrial hinterland

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge research on urban AsiaPublication details: Routledge 2019 OxonDescription: 159 p.: ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9781138334472
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76095414 M2T4
Summary: At this western corner of the confluence of the Bay of Bengal and the busy river Hooghly, West Bengal in eastern India lies geography that has hosted many outsiders – traders, merchants, colonial masters, missionaries, and wanderers. This book is fundamentally concerned with the relations among the theoretical categories of time, space, and capital in India and shows registers of temporality and spatiality generated by historical phases of interaction with industrial capital. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Howrah, the author examines the form of urbanism that is not linked to the city-form of spatial organization, a "hinterland urbanism". The book brings out the theoretical implications by showing the relations among time, space, and capital. Through a series of encounters and interceptions with some voices arising, the book sheds light on the issue and identifies the state of an ethnographer who is ensconced in the field – in wonder, conceit, and sometimes physical discomfort. This book is, thus, an exploration of such historical layering of space by forces of time and speed afforded by the logics of capital, through limited acts of witnessing of production and access of historical sensation. An invitation to scholars and students of cultural anthropology to consider the question of scale in the making of ethical, political, and aesthetic selves, this book is an intervention in political anthropology that connects aesthetics, desire, and emotion to political imagination and action. The book makes a significant contribution to the anthropology of space, urban anthropology, and anthropology of capital as well as urban studies. https://www.routledge.com/Time-Space-and-Capital-in-India-Longing-and-Belonging-in-an-Urban-Industrial/Majumder/p/book/9781138334472
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Item location Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 13-A / Slot 457 (0 Floor, West Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 307.76095414 M2T4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 202523

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Hideout
Chapter 3: Capital
Chapter 4: Space/Time
Chapter 5: Text/Talk
Chapter 6: Hero
Chapter 7: Evidence
Chapter 8: Epilogue
References
Index

At this western corner of the confluence of the Bay of Bengal and the busy river Hooghly, West Bengal in eastern India lies geography that has hosted many outsiders – traders, merchants, colonial masters, missionaries, and wanderers.
This book is fundamentally concerned with the relations among the theoretical categories of time, space, and capital in India and shows registers of temporality and spatiality generated by historical phases of interaction with industrial capital. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Howrah, the author examines the form of urbanism that is not linked to the city-form of spatial organization, a "hinterland urbanism". The book brings out the theoretical implications by showing the relations among time, space, and capital. Through a series of encounters and interceptions with some voices arising, the book sheds light on the issue and identifies the state of an ethnographer who is ensconced in the field – in wonder, conceit, and sometimes physical discomfort. This book is, thus, an exploration of such historical layering of space by forces of time and speed afforded by the logics of capital, through limited acts of witnessing of production and access of historical sensation.
An invitation to scholars and students of cultural anthropology to consider the question of scale in the making of ethical, political, and aesthetic selves, this book is an intervention in political anthropology that connects aesthetics, desire, and emotion to political imagination and action. The book makes a significant contribution to the anthropology of space, urban anthropology, and anthropology of capital as well as urban studies.

https://www.routledge.com/Time-Space-and-Capital-in-India-Longing-and-Belonging-in-an-Urban-Industrial/Majumder/p/book/9781138334472

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.