The Social Life of Streets in India

Histories, Contestations and Subjectivities

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Produktbeschreibung

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 controlling the spread of the disease. The Social Life of Streets in India: Histories, Contestations and Subjectivities endeavours to understand the complexities of social dynamics of streets in relation to spatiality and materiality in the Indian milieu. It draws from a diverse body of scholarship and varied disciplinary leanings and engages with three broad strands: historical aspects of streets, the physicality of street as a built environment and social science discourse mediated through anthropology, urban geography, social theory and urban studies. Further the volume deliberates on questions such as: How do we look at streets and, in particular, how do we document and conceptualise streets in the Indian context that highlights the particularities of South Asian milieus? Is the street public? Is it merely a physical space? How does the street in its physicality and in its built form enter or respond to the metaphorical, the literary, the methodological and the social?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 135mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9789354356858
• ISBN-10: 9354356850
• Artikelnr.: 65599565

Autorenporträt

Sadan Jha is Associate Professor at Centre for Social Studies, Surat. He is trained in the discipline of history (modern Indian history) and his research interests are in two broad areas: history of visuality and contemporary urban experience. In these fields, he has been working on history of symbols and icons, nation and nationalism, literature, history of colours, contemporary Surat and its transformation in recent decades. Gauri Bharat is Associate Professor and Program Chair of Architectural History and Research at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India. She researches indigenous architecture, politics of place-making in India, and more recently, histories of materials and making.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Table, Figures and Maps Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Streets
Have Social Lives -Sadan Jha and Gauri Bharat 2 Becoming Streets: Rhythms
and Geographies of Urban Practice in Bhuj -Himanshu Burte, Aditya Singh and
Bhawna Jaimini 3 Street and Its Subalterns: Conversations on the Go -Sadan
Jha 4 Sarani to Dharani: Street Life and the Remaking of Kolkata's Pasts-
Aparajita De 5 Mobilising a Folk Art: Madhubani Paintings and the Aesthetic
Transformation of a Patna Streetscape - Sprya Sharma 6 Class, Consumption
and Culture: High Streets and the Neoliberal Imagination of the Indian
Cities - Debapriya Ganguly and Rakesh M. Krishnan 7 Memories and
Possibilities of Un/Equal Street: Linking Road, Mumbai-Kamalika Banerjee 8
Street-Space or Road-Space? Contested Mobility in Ahmedabad-Rutul Joshi 9
Theorising Contestations over Decongesting Street Economies: Beyond
Narratives of Inevitable Dispossessions and Shared Commons-Varun Patil 10
The Messy Lives of Chokepoints: Infrastructure and Streets in the Hilly
Town of Kalimpong-Anisa Bhutia 11 Taps, Walls, Seats: The Contested Street
Commons in Veli, Kerala-Eva Thomas and Aishwarya Padmanabhan 12 Festivals
on the Street-Aishwarya Morwal 13 Roadside Shrines in Ahmedabad:
Subalternity, Religious Politics and the Shaping of the Street as a Public
Realm-Gauri Bharat 14 Thinking through the Residual Shrines on the Roads of
SEZ Hyderabad-Baishali Ghosh 15 Four Gullies and a Fortnight-Richa Jha
Endnotes Index About the Editors and Contributors