{"product_id":"the-archive-of-loss-9781478003687","title":"The Archive of Loss","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaura Finkelstein examines what it means for textile mill workers in Mumbai—who are assumed to not exist—to live during a period of deindustrialization, showing how mills and workers' bodies constitute an archive of Mumbai's history that challenge common thinking about the city's past, present, and future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Finkelstein’s work is very refreshing. . . . The data involved is rich, and the theoretical framings and arguments very persuasive.\" -- Sinead D'Silva * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Tackling the question of power, of the structure of domination in post-colony, and of the lives lived among the imperial debris makes \u003ci\u003eThe Archive of Loss\u003c\/i\u003e an engaging reading for those willing to advance the project started by Maura Finkelstein and to approach ethnographically both the official records and the alternative archives. . . . The book offers a detailed description of decay and ruination as a prolonged process that follows its own logic and unfolds according to its own rules, supporting a ghostly presence of the past that refuses to die down.\" -- Natalia Kovalyova * Anthropology Book Forum *\u003cbr\u003e“In each chapter-archive, Finkelstein urges the reader to reflect on how some forms of work in contemporary capitalist society are rendered meaningless in order to sustain others.... Researchers studying the history of Mumbai’s textile mills, the processes of deindustrialization, storytelling, and archiving, and affect theory will find value in engaging with this book.” -- Saumya Pandey * Society for the Anthropology of Work *\u003cbr\u003e“The conceptual framing of the book is refreshingly original, the prose elegant and the structure convincing.... By carefully spelling out phenomena that do not fit into established narratives, the book illuminates the blind spot of dominant explanations.” -- Pablo Holwitt * South Asia *\u003cbr\u003e“The significance of this powerful book goes beyond being an ethnography of the urban or the spatial.... \u003ci\u003eArchives of Loss\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for understanding urban transition.” -- Sarasij Majumder * Journal of Anthropological Research *\u003cbr\u003e“Maura Finkelstein’s book is a wonderful ethnographic study.... [\u003ci\u003eThe Archive of Loss\u003c\/i\u003e] is an important addition to studies of urban workers and the textile industry and is important for anthropology, ethnography, human geography, urban history and labour studies.” -- Vicki Crinis * Asian Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Archive of Loss\u003c\/i\u003e is an exemplary ethnography of a world in transition, caught as it is between an industrial past and post-industrial present, and the unexpected openings—material, social, political—of seeing this world otherwise.” -- Waqas H. Butt * Anthropological Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e“Maura Finkelstein’s \u003ci\u003eThe Archive of Loss\u003c\/i\u003e is a finely theorized ethnographic archive of what she calls lively ruination that pushes methodological boundaries in novel ways.” -- Preeti Sampat * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eArchive of Loss\u003c\/i\u003e is fascinating. It is an original, remarkable, and admirable account of other sides of the glossy coins of Mumbai as a post-industrial city aiming to reach world-class status (whatever that may mean). It is moreover a convincing ‘first-hand’ account of the working and social lives of those Mumbaikars who live somewhere in the shadows of ‘development.’” -- Hans Schenk * IIAS Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e A Note on \u003ci\u003eIntimate Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Archive of Industrial Debris  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Archive of the Mill  29\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Archive of the Worker  57\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Archive of the Chawl  85\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Archive of the Strike  117\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Archive of the Fire  149\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Archive of Futures Lost  181\u003cbr\u003e Notes  193\u003cbr\u003e References  225\u003cbr\u003e Index  247","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408974225751,"sku":"9781478003687","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478003687.jpg?v=1730504926","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-archive-of-loss-9781478003687","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}