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Bombay Brokers /

"Bombay Brokers is a collaborative ethnography about people whose material and practical expertise animate the everyday workings in and of one of the world's more dynamic cities, but whose labors are simultaneously (and paradoxically) subject to much moralizing hand-wringing. The book take...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Björkman, Lisa, 1977- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Bombay Brokers is a collaborative ethnography about people whose material and practical expertise animate the everyday workings in and of one of the world's more dynamic cities, but whose labors are simultaneously (and paradoxically) subject to much moralizing hand-wringing. The book takes this paradox-the ethically fraught yet indispensable character of certain kinds of knowledge and labor-as a methodological and analytical jumping-off point for exploring broader questions about global-level transformations: economic, technological, political, socio-material, ideational"--
Notas:Includes index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (466 pages).
ISBN:9781478013082