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  • Social City

    Urban Experience and Belonging in Surat

    by Sadan Jha ...
    This book examines urban experience from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing upon narratives coming from three key axes—communities, neighbourhoods, and market places—it lays bare the specificities of urban experience in contemporary Surat. It discusses a host of issues, including the ambiguity of urban experience, its uncomfortable ties with frames of the capital, and the politics of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Social Life of Streets in India

    Histories, Contestations and Subjectivities

    by Sadan Jha, Gauri Bharat ...
    Streets are places that stimulate activities, interactions, behaviours and, by extension, controls. Yet, within the built environment discourse, the street is first and foremost conceptualised as a mute backdrop to movement-vehicular or pedestrian. The Covid-19 pandemic brought renewed focus on the street as the space of networks, flows and mobilities as the 'lockdown' was the preferred mode of ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia

    Subjectivities and Spatiality

    Edited by Sadan Jha, Dev Nath Pathak ...
    This volume examines urban South Asia through the ideas of neighbourhood and neighbourliness. With a focus on the affective socio-spatial and sensorial experiences of non-metropolitan, small and intermediate cities, the chapters in the volume look at neighbourhoods as a key to exploring the textures of urban life. Bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines including sociology, ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Neighbourhoods in Urban India

    In Between Home and the City

    Edited by Sadan Jha, Dev Nath Pathak, Amiya Kumar Das ...
    '…a brilliant exploration of urbanism between the concept city and the lived city.… The volume focuses on urban life lived between home and the world, institutions and experiences, representations and affects…. Its fascinating range of empirically rich and analytically sophisticated excavations of neighbourhoods make the volume a must-have in the bookshelf on South Asian urban studies.'-Gyan ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration

    Leaving and Living

    Edited by Sadan Jha, Pushpendra Kumar Singh ...
    Series series Migrations in South Asia
    This volume explores ideas of home, belonging and memory in migration through the social realities of leaving and living. It discusses themes and issues such as locating migrant subjectivities and belonging; sociability and wellbeing; the making of a village; bondage and seasonality; dislocation and domestic labour; women and work; gender and religion; Bhojpuri folksongs; folk music; experience; ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture

    Edited by Vasudha Dalmia, Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition

    Branding the Potters of Kolkata

    by Geir Heierstad ...
    Series series Diversity and Plurality in South Asia
    Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition is an ethnographic study of the potters of Kolkata’s Kumartuli, an analysis of their lives and the related commodification and instrumentalization of caste. This group of artisans turned artists do not display passive responses to colonial and capitalist encounters but engage actively with the modern and economic developments of society at ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams

    Identity and Modernity Among Jat Sikhs

    by Nicola Mooney ...
    Renowned as the predominant farmers and landlords of Punjab, and long possessed of an autocthonous agricultural identity, Jat Sikhs today often live urban and diasporiclives. Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams examines the formation and meaning of Jat Sikh identity in the contemporary Indian city.Nicola Mooney describes a number of Jat Sikh social practices and narratives through which ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • The Heart of Helambu

    Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal

    by Tom O'Neill ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    Over the course of the last twenty-five years, Tom O’Neill has traveled frequently to Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal to undertake ethnographic fieldwork with the Yolmo business owners and carpet weavers of the area. The Heart of Helambu is an evocative and touching account of his experiences working in Nepal during those turbulent times.In his autoethnographic memoir, O’Neill reflects ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Indian Instincts

    Essays on Freedom and Equality in India

    by Miniya Chatterji ...
    From tracing the possible first arrival of man in India to writing about love, sex, money, parenting and values in Indian society and discussing nationalism, religion and democracy, Miniya Chatterji presents an accessible yet brilliant intellectual treatise about issues that affect Indians the most. Indian Instincts is a seminal and deeply philosophical work, presented tactfully with entertaining ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Militant and Migrant

    The Politics and Social History of Punjab

    by Radhika Chopra ...
    This book is a study of the transformations in Punjab created by biotechnological revolutions, economic restructuring, persistent migrations, and political upheaval in the late 20th century. The sacred centre at Amritsar, the transnational settlement of Southall and a Doaba village form the terrain for this — three sites that can seen as metonymic spaces of identity that transcend geographic ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Unlearning the City

    Infrastructure in a New Optical Field

    by Swati Chattopadhyay ...
    Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe and debate the vital component of urban life that is lived on the streets of cities and towns. Swati Chattopadhyay has written a nuanced argument for a new vocabulary of the city in Unlearning the City, proposing a way of analyzing the materiality of the urban that captures the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD