Waiting Town - (Asia Shorts) by Lisa Björkman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in the Indian city of Mumbai, <i>Waiting Town</i> is a formally experimental book about how we come to know the worlds about which we write. The narrative follows the author's fieldnotes through a series of ethnographic puzzles that emerge in the wake of a high-profile mega-infrastructure project.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in the Indian city of Mumbai, <em>Waiting Town </em>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. </p><p><em>Waiting Town</em> complicates this celebratory narrative by revealing the conflicting temporalities and procedural pretentions of 'world class' developmentalism. On one level, <em>Waiting Town</em> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Lisa Björkman is Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at University of Louisville and Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.
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