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Waiting town : life in transit and Mumbai's other world-class histories
- Title
- Waiting town : life in transit and Mumbai's other world-class histories / Lisa Björkman.
- Author
- Björkman, Lisa, 1977-
- Publication
- Ann Arbor, MI : Association for Asian Studies, [2020]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Association for Asian Studies.
- Description
- 152 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Drawing on research carried out over a decade in the Indian city of Mumbai, Waiting Town is an ethnographic monograph about the fraught relationship between the word and the world - about the materiality of signs and the 'truths' that they seek to instantiate (and represent). On one level, Waiting Town is a book about Mumbai: about housing schemes and scams, about 'duplicate' documents (and duplicate 'duplicates'), and about the wreckage left in the wake of the city's 'world-class' ambitions. And at the same time, the book has broader ambitions: it is a story about the craft of ethnography: about how we know the world, about truth and falsehood, about time and memory, about the practices of interpretation and meaning-making that comprise the techniques of research, and about the promises and pitfalls of knowledge-production more generally"--
- Series Statement
- Asia shorts ; number 5
- Uniform Title
- Asia shorts ; no. 5.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-152).
- Call Number
- JFE 21-1867
- ISBN
- 9780924304934
- 0924304936
- 9781952636165 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020042988
- OCLC
- 1156352716
- Author
- Björkman, Lisa, 1977- author.
- Title
- Waiting town : life in transit and Mumbai's other world-class histories / Lisa Björkman.
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor, MI : Association for Asian Studies, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Asia shorts ; number 5Asia shorts ; no. 5.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-152).
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Added Author
- Association for Asian Studies.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Björkman, Lisa, 1977- Waiting town Ann Arbor : Association for Asian Studies, 2020. 9781952636165 (DLC) 2020042989
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-1867