Living With Violence

An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life

AvRoma Chatterji,Deepak Mehta

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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This book gives a detailed account of thecommunal riots between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai in 1992-93. It departs from the historiography of the riot, which assumes that Hindu-Muslim conflict is independent of the participants of the violence.Speaking to and interacting with the residents of Dharavi, the largest shanty town in the city, the au

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-04-25
Mått:138 x 216 x 12 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Asian Studies
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367176051

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Mer om författaren

Roma Chatterji teaches at the Department of sociology, Delhi University. Apart from her research in the subject of the state and everyday life, her interests are in folklore and print culture, governmentality, illness narratives and folk art. She has published in edited volumes and journals of international repute, and has recently completed a monograph on folklore and print culture in West Bengal.Deepak Mehta is at the Department of Sociology, Delhi University. He works on Muslim societies in India and on the sociology of material culture. Dr Mehta is the author of Work, Ritual Biography: A Muslim Community in North India.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Nation, State and Violence in Dharavi 2. Documents and Testimony: Violence, Witnessing and Subjectivity in the Bombay Riots 1992-93 3. Boundaries, Names, Alterities: The Riot in Dharavi 4. Communal Violence, Public Spaces and the Unmaking of Men 5. Plans, Habitation and Slum Redevelopment: The Production of Community 6. Governmental Technologies and Institutional Practice: NGOs and the Slum Dwellers Voice. Bibliography. Index