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Mumbai Taximen - Autobiographies and Automobilities in India (Hardcover)
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Mumbai Taximen - Autobiographies and Automobilities in India (Hardcover)
Series: Global South Asia
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In this first book-length study of Mumbai’s taxi industry and of
the livelihoods that surround it, Tarini Bedi draws from the lives
and voices of chillia taxi drivers who have sustained a hereditary
trade for more than a century. Bedi considers the Bombay taxi in
all its forms: a material object that is driven, an economic and
political connection, an expression of kinship, an embodiment of
urban time and technology, and more. She illustrates how the
accumulation of capital in this masculinized and mobile trade
depends on forms of fixed domestic labor and an ethics of care, and
how connections among these factors impact the production and
reshaping of working-class personhood and laboring subjects. From
beginning to end, the world of Mumbai automobility unfolds through
depiction of the sensory, embodied, and political domains of taxi
drivers’ work. While most understandings of automobility remain
tied to Western assumptions, patterns of driving,
(sub)urbanization, and engagements with the road, realities in the
Global South differ. Mumbai Taximen provides a correction to this
imbalance from Mumbai through a timely exploration of South Asian
social, material, political, labor, and technological histories and
practices of motoring and automobility.
General
Imprint: |
University of Washington Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Global South Asia |
Release date: |
February 2022 |
Authors: |
Tarini Bedi
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Series editors: |
Padma Kaimal
• K. Sivaramakrishnan
• Anand A. Yang
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
248 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-295-74985-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-295-74985-7 |
Barcode: |
9780295749853 |
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