The Archive of Loss

Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai

Maura Finkelstein (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478003687 (ISBN)

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Mumbai's textile industry is commonly but incorrectly understood to be an extinct relic of the past. In The Archive of Loss Maura Finkelstein examines what it means for textile mill workers-who are assumed not to exist-to live and work during a period of deindustrialization. Finkelstein shows how mills are ethnographic archives of the city where documents, artifacts, and stories exist in the buildings and in the bodies of workers. Workers' pain, illnesses, injuries, and exhaustion narrate industrial decline; the ways in which they live in tenements exist outside and resist the values expounded by modernity; and the rumors and untruths they share about textile worker strikes and a mill fire help them make sense of the industry's survival. In outlining this archive's contents, Finkelstein shows how mills, which she conceptualizes as lively ruins, become a lens through which to challenge, reimagine, and alter ways of thinking about the past, present, and future in Mumbai and beyond.

Maura Finkelstein is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Muhlenberg College.

Acknowledgments vii
A Note on Intimate Geographies xi
Introduction: The Archive of Industrial Debris 1
1. The Archive of the Mill 29
2. The Archive of the Worker 57
3. The Archive of the Chawl 85
4. The Archive of the Strike 117
5. The Archive of the Fire 149
Epilogue: The Archive of Futures Lost 181
Notes 193
References 225
Index 247

Erscheinungsdatum	30.04.2019
Zusatzinfo	49 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781478003687 / 9781478003687
Zustand	Neuware