Finkelstein Maura Finkelstein

Archive of Loss (eBook, PDF)

Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai

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Produktbeschreibung

Mumbai's textile industry is commonly but incorrectly understood to be an extinct relic of the past. In The Archive of Loss Maura Finkelstein examines what it means for textile mill workers-who are assumed not to exist-to live and work during a period of deindustrialization. Finkelstein shows how mills are ethnographic archives of the city where documents, artifacts, and stories exist in the buildings and in the bodies of workers. Workers' pain, illnesses, injuries, and exhaustion narrate industrial decline; the ways in which they live in tenements exist outside and resist the values expounded by modernity; and the rumors and untruths they share about textile worker strikes and a mill fire help them make sense of the industry's survival. In outlining this archive's contents, Finkelstein shows how mills, which she conceptualizes as lively ruins, become a lens through which to challenge, reimagine, and alter ways of thinking about the past, present, and future in Mumbai and beyond.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478004608
• Artikelnr.: 56913488

Autorenporträt

Maura Finkelstein

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
A Note on Intimate Geographies  xi
Introduction: The Archive of Industrial Debris  1
1. The Archive of the Mill  29
2. The Archive of the Worker  57
3. The Archive of the Chawl  85
4. The Archive of the Strike  117
5. The Archive of the Fire  149
Epilogue: The Archive of Futures Lost  181
Notes  193
References  225
Index  247