Living With Violence

An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Roma Chatterji, Deepak Mehta, India.) Chatterji, Roma (Roma Chatterji is Professor, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India) Mehta, Deepak (both at University of Delhi

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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

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Utgivningsdatum2019-04-25
Mått138 x 216 x 12 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Asian Studies
Antal sidor216
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367176051

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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.

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