The Moving City

Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure

The Moving City
Rashmi Sadana
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Paperback
h229 x 152mm - 274pg
7 Dec 2021 US
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9780520383968
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The Moving City is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the story of Delhi' s Metro, a massive infrastructure project reshaping the city' s social and urban landscapes. Presented as a series of ethnographic vignettes, Rashmi Sadana introduces the feel and form of the Metro and lets readers experience the city, scene by scene, stop by stop, as if they, too, have come along for the ride. It is a book that lays bare the radical possibilities and concretized inequalities of the Metro, how people live with and through the built environment, a story of women and men on the move, the nature of Indian aspiration, and what it takes morally and materially to sustain urban life. Through exquisite prose, Sadana transports the reader into a city shaped by its metro and those who depend on it, offering a revealing and unique perspective on Delhi unlike any other.
Rashmi Sadana is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University and author of English Heart, Hindi Heartland: The Political Life of Literature in India.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780520383968
Published: 7 Dec 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 363g
Pages: 274

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