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Social City: Urban Experience and Belonging in Surat

Social City: Urban Experience and Belonging in Surat

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 103215831X
ISBN13: 9781032158310
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Dec 15 2022
Pages: 226
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines urban experience from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing upon narratives coming from three key axes--communities, neighbourhoods, and market places--it lays bare the specificities of urban experience in contemporary Surat. It discusses a host of issues, including the ambiguity of urban experience, its uncomfortable ties with frames of the capital, and the politics of urban belonging that operate at multiple levels, shaping the contours of urban society. Musing on the subjectivities pertaining to the social and the spatial in a milieu of a fast-transforming urban landscape of Surat, Gujarat, the book is an exploration of how people perceive and associate with their surroundings, how they aspire, how they stigmatise others, the relation between the city and its migrants and castes, and at a broader level, between the capital and the city.

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