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City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport

City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport

Chowdhury, Romit

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Transportation GeneralGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1978829507
ISBN13: 9781978829503
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Aug 11 2023
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men. How do men experience gender in city spaces? What are the interactional dynamics between different groups of men on city streets? How do men adjudicate between good and bad conduct in urban spaces? Through ethnographic descriptions of copresence on public transport in Kolkata, India, this book brings into sight the gendered logics of cooperation and everyday morality through which masculinities take up space in cities. It follows the labor geographies of auto-rickshaw and taxi operators and their interactions with traffic police and commuters to argue that the gendered fabric of urban life needs to be understood as a product of situational forms of cooperation between different social groups. Such an orientation sheds light on the part played by everyday morality and provisional support in upholding male privilege in the city.

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