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100			_aBjorkman, Lisa _9271531
245			_aWaiting town : _bLife in transit and Mumbai’s other world-class histories
260			_aDelhi: _bPrimus Books, _c2024.
300			_axiv, 152p.
520			_aDrawing on a decade of ethnographic research in the Indian city of Mumbai, Waiting Town is an unconventional little book - experimental in form - about how we come to know the worlds about which we write. The narrative follows the author's fieldnotes diaries as they wend their way through a series of ethnographic puzzles that emerge in the wake of a high-profile mega-infrastructure project that became an internationally celebrated prototype and model. Waiting Town complicates this celebratory narrative by revealing the conflicting temporalities and procedural pretentions of 'world class' developmentalism. On one level, Waiting Town is a book about Mumbai - about housing schemes and scams, about 'duplicate' documents (and 'duplicate duplicates'), and about the material wreckage wrought by the city's 'world-class' ambitions. And at the same time, it has a larger story to tell about truth and falsehood, time and memory - and about the promises and pitfalls of knowledge production, interpretation and representation more generally.
650			_aDomestic -- India -- Mumbai _9811183
650			_aDwellings -- India -- Mumbai _9811184
650			_aPolitical Science / World / Asian _9811185
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