{"product_id":"the-moving-city-9780520383951","title":"The Moving City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Moving City is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the story of Delhi's Metro, a massive infrastructure project that is reshaping the city's social and urban landscapes. Ethnographic vignettes introduce the feel and form of the Metro and let readers experience the city, scene by scene, stop by stop, as if they, too, have come along for the ride. Laying bare the radical possibilities and concretized inequalities of the Metro, andhow people live with and through its built environment, this is 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, Rashmi Sadana transports the reader to a city shaped by both its Metro and those who depend on it, revealing a perspective on Delhi unlike any other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Moving City\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to the growing literature on urban infrastructure. It is evocative and shows us the variegated ways in which mobility is mediated by aspirations, fears, exclusions and political negotiations.\" * Contributions to Indian Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\"The vignettes captured by the author, constituting in effect a collection of ukiyo-e, ‘pictures of the floating world,’  is a delightful and interesting twist on ethnographic writing and representation. . . Sadana’s book offers a very special approach to the study of urban infrastructure and demonstrates how these little floating scenes of everyday life can tell us something about big and complex social issues.\" * Asian Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e\"The strength of this book lies in what it has to offer as a method of encountering urban spaces. . . .This ethnography would be a welcome addition to courses in urban anthropology, anthropologies of gender, class, South Asia, and ethnographic method.\" * Anthropological Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Vivid and rich with detail. . . .Sadana…emphasizes the uniqueness of the Delhi Metro by centering the voices of the many people who make up its daily life.\" * Metropolitics *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] beautifully crafted account of how life in Delhi becomes narrated through the Metro as it joins and cuts across disparate urban spaces.\" * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\"A radical work that throws open established modes of Indian anthropological writing.\" * Biblio: A Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I Crowded\u003cbr\u003e The Train to Dwarka\u003cbr\u003e Mandi House\u003cbr\u003e Vanita\u003cbr\u003e The Image of the City\u003cbr\u003e Metro Bhawan\u003cbr\u003e Space and Matter\u003cbr\u003e Red Line\u003cbr\u003e Resident Welfare\u003cbr\u003e Okhla Station\u003cbr\u003e Naipaul on the Metro\u003cbr\u003e Nukkad Natak\u003cbr\u003e Mumbai\u003cbr\u003e Urban Hazards\u003cbr\u003e Ramlila Maidan\u003cbr\u003e From Badarpur\u003cbr\u003e Yellow Line\u003cbr\u003e Drishti\u003cbr\u003e A Developed Country\u003cbr\u003e Social Space\u003cbr\u003e Seelampur Station\u003cbr\u003e Pressure Cooker\u003cbr\u003e Blue Line\u003cbr\u003e Delhi-6\u003cbr\u003e Bus Rapid Transit\u003cbr\u003e The Bicycle Fixer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II Expanding\u003cbr\u003e A Road's Geography\u003cbr\u003e The Gangway\u003cbr\u003e Spontaneous Urbanism\u003cbr\u003e Nehru Place\u003cbr\u003e Rupali\u003cbr\u003e Chief Minister\u003cbr\u003e City of Malls\u003cbr\u003e Violet Line\u003cbr\u003e Metal and Plastic\u003cbr\u003e Appropriate Architecture\u003cbr\u003e Chawri Bazar\u003cbr\u003e Ajay and Gita\u003cbr\u003e Ring Road\u003cbr\u003e Grievance and Governance\u003cbr\u003e Morning Commute\u003cbr\u003e Orange Line\u003cbr\u003e The Play about the Metro\u003cbr\u003e Aspirational Planning\u003cbr\u003e Renu and Shiv\u003cbr\u003e Layers and Sediment\u003cbr\u003e Green Line\u003cbr\u003e Cycle Rickshaw-wala\u003cbr\u003e Metro Mob\u003cbr\u003e The Techno-cosmopolitan \u003cbr\u003e The Politics of Speed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III Visible\u003cbr\u003e World Class\u003cbr\u003e Strike\u003cbr\u003e Bus\u003cbr\u003e Infrastructure by Example\u003cbr\u003e Magenta Line\u003cbr\u003e Radhika\u003cbr\u003e Posture\u003cbr\u003e Integration\u003cbr\u003e The Photo That Went Viral\u003cbr\u003e Voids and Solids\u003cbr\u003e Beauty Salon\u003cbr\u003e Suicide \u003cbr\u003e Multiple Choice\u003cbr\u003e Jahnavi\u003cbr\u003e Café Coffee Day\u003cbr\u003e Looks \u003cbr\u003e Street Survey\u003cbr\u003e Aasif \u003cbr\u003e E-rickshaws\u003cbr\u003e Love Marriage and a Head Injury\u003cbr\u003e Fare Hike \u003cbr\u003e At Home in Dakshinpuri\u003cbr\u003e Dilli Haat\u003cbr\u003e Pink Line\u003cbr\u003e City Park\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402955071831,"sku":"9780520383951","price":63.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520383951.jpg?v=1730481957","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-moving-city-9780520383951","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}