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Author:   Lisa Björkman
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.658kg
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9781478011491

ISBN 10:   1478011491
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   21 May 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments  viii Introduction. Ethnography in the Global Interregnum / Lisa Björkman  1 Part I. Development / Rachel Sturman  47 1. Bunty: Singh Builder of Dreams / Lalitha Kamath  59 2. Imran: Housing Contractor / Tobias Baitsch  68 3. Dalpat: Manager of Services / Lisa Björkman  78 4. Mehmoodbhai: Toilet Operator / Prasad Khanolkar  87 5. Kaushal: Land Agglomerator / Llerena Guiu Searle  95 6. Janu: Sister-Supervisor of Migrant Construction Workers / Uday Chandra  101 Part II. Property. Lisa Björkman  109 7. Dr. K: Middle-Class Social Worker / Yaffa Truelove  121 8. Ashok Ravat: Shivaji Park's Sentinel / Lalit Vachani  128 9. Shazia: Proof Maker / Sangeeta Banerji  137 10. Nirmala: Kamathipura's Gatekeeper / Ratoola Kunda  145 11. Farhad: ""Sue Maker"" / Leilah Vevaina  154 Part III. Business / Tarini Bedi  163 12. Ramita: Surrogacy Agent / Daisy Deomampo  175 13. Muhammad: Revalorizer of E-Waste / Aneri Taskar  182 14. Deepak: Making Mumbai (in China) / Ka-Kin Cheuk  191 15. Lubaina: Framing ""Development"" / Lubaina Rangwala  199 16. Shankar: Delivering Authenticity / Ken Kuroda  208 17. Manal-Muna: Cooking Up Value / Tarini Bedi  216 18. Ramji: Business Energizer / Lisa Björkman  224 Part IV. Difference / Anjali Arondekar  233 19. Bhimsen Gaikwad: Singer of Justice / Shailaja Paik  243 20. Sultan: Image Manager / David J. Strohl  253 21. Raj: Carting Cosmopolitanism / Maura Finkelstein  262 22. Laxmi: Dealer in Emotion / R. Swaminathan  270 23. Dharamsey: Assembler of Tradition / Edward Simpson  278 24. Dalvi: Speaker of Cities / Gautam Pemmaraju  286 Part V. Publics / Lisa Björkman and Michael Collins  297 25. Shashi: Dot Connector / Rohan Shivkumar  307 26. Anil Prakash: Amplifier of Cinema-Industrial Connections / Kathryn Hardy  315 27. Gauravpant Mishra: Crowd Maker / Sarthak Bagchi 322 28. Srinivasan: Kingmaker / Simon Chauchard  329 29. Madhu: Door Opener / Bhushan Korgaonkar  337 30. Poornima: Designing Relations / Ajay Gandhi  347 Part VI. Truth / Lisa Björkman  355 31. Rajani Pandit: Detector of ""Truths"" / Srimati Basu  367 32. Afzal Taximan: Rumor Navigator / Sahana Udupa  378 33. Pawan: Prison Master / Atreyee Sen  384 34. Sujit: Master Communicator / Annelies Kusters  391 35. Chadda: Report Maker / Prasad Shetty & Rupali Gupte  401 36. Prakash: Data Entrepreneur / Amita Bhide  405 Conclusion. Other Places, Other Times / Lisa Mitchell  414 Glossary  425 About the Contributors  437 Index  441"

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Lisa Bjoerkman's collection Bombay Brokers offers a brilliantly multivocal account of the many worlds of practical negotiation and embodied expertise that animate urban life in one of India's most dynamic, polarized cities. Just as important, it is a remarkable work of collaborative ethnography that forges a distinctive methodological strategy through which to illuminate the crises and contradictions of contemporary urbanism in Bombay and beyond. -- Neil Brenner, Urban Theory Lab, University of Chicago This remarkable edited collection is a commendable contribution to the study of the links between mediation and intermediation, thus linking a venerable tradition of political anthropology with vivid portraits of the agency of brokers. It brings Bombay to life in ways that will surely inform the comparative study of fixers in other large cities caught in the flux of globalization. -- Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University An unconventional introduction to India's biggest city and an invitation to the joys and challenges of ethnography. -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs * While [Bombay Brokers] is nominally about the city of Mumbai, there is little doubt that it will resonate with anyone interested in the story of urban change and continuity all around the world. It is a distinctive contribution to the literature on cities and labour and one that is bound to inspire similar books in years to come. -- Sneha Annavarapu * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research * [Bombay Brokers] is a highly engaging read, as well as a rich and very valuable contribution to the literatures about Mumbai and the concept of brokerage.... The book provides food for thought for debates about the specificity of Southern urbanisms and enriches our conceptual vocabulary for thinking about cities. -- Pablo Holwitt * Antipode * [Bombay Brokers] is a book that, in its combination of sharp-eyed detail and endlessly multiplying perspectives, manages to create a simulacrum of the city itself in all its plurality and vitality. . . . The structure of the book makes it especially useful as a teaching resource. -- Jonathan Spencer * Journal of Anthropological Research * Bombay Brokers is an expert exploration of how life is fashioned in a harshly hierarchical city through the activities of individuals-creative, complex, tenacious individuals who accomplish survival, success or profit, sometimes space to build a community, by brokering deals and mediating conflicts between messy, overflowing institutions. -- Tania Bhattacharyya * Journal of Asian Studies *

This remarkable edited collection is a commendable contribution to the study of the links between mediation and intermediation, thus linking a venerable tradition of political anthropology with vivid portraits of the agency of brokers. It brings Bombay to life in ways that will surely inform the comparative study of fixers in other large cities caught in the flux of globalization. -- Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University Lisa Bjoerkman's collection Bombay Brokers offers a brilliantly multivocal account of the many worlds of practical negotiation and embodied expertise that animate urban life in one of India's most dynamic, polarized cities. Just as importantly, it is a remarkable work of collaborative ethnography that forges a distinctive methodological strategy through which to illuminate the crises and contradictions of contemporary urbanism in Bombay and beyond. -- Neil Brenner, Urban Theory Lab, University of Chicago

Lisa Bjoerkman's collection Bombay Brokers offers a brilliantly multivocal account of the many worlds of practical negotiation and embodied expertise that animate urban life in one of India's most dynamic, polarized cities. Just as important, it is a remarkable work of collaborative ethnography that forges a distinctive methodological strategy through which to illuminate the crises and contradictions of contemporary urbanism in Bombay and beyond. -- Neil Brenner, Urban Theory Lab, University of Chicago This remarkable edited collection is a commendable contribution to the study of the links between mediation and intermediation, thus linking a venerable tradition of political anthropology with vivid portraits of the agency of brokers. It brings Bombay to life in ways that will surely inform the comparative study of fixers in other large cities caught in the flux of globalization. -- Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University An unconventional introduction to India's biggest city and an invitation to the joys and challenges of ethnography. -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *

Lisa Bjoerkman's collection Bombay Brokers offers a brilliantly multivocal account of the many worlds of practical negotiation and embodied expertise that animate urban life in one of India's most dynamic, polarized cities. Just as important, it is a remarkable work of collaborative ethnography that forges a distinctive methodological strategy through which to illuminate the crises and contradictions of contemporary urbanism in Bombay and beyond. -- Neil Brenner, Urban Theory Lab, University of Chicago This remarkable edited collection is a commendable contribution to the study of the links between mediation and intermediation, thus linking a venerable tradition of political anthropology with vivid portraits of the agency of brokers. It brings Bombay to life in ways that will surely inform the comparative study of fixers in other large cities caught in the flux of globalization. -- Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

Author Information

Lisa Björkman is Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Louisville, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, and author of Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai, also published by Duke University Press, and Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai's Other World-Class Histories.

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