Mumbai taximen : autobiographies and automobilities in India /

"In this first book-length study of Mumbai's taxi industry and of the livelihoods that surround it, Tarini Bedi draws from the lives and voices of chillia taxi drivers who have sustained a hereditary trade for more than a century. Bedi considers the Bombay taxi in all its forms: a material...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bedi, Tarini, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2021]
Series:Global South Asia.
Subjects:
Taxicab drivers > India > Mumbai > Social conditions.
Taxicab industry > India > Mumbai.
Automobiles > Social aspects > India > Mumbai.
Chauffeurs de taxi > Inde > Mumbai > Conditions sociales.
Automobiles > Aspect social > Inde > Mumbai.
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
Automobiles > Social aspects
Social conditions
Taxicab industry
Mumbai (India) > Social conditions.
India > Mumbai
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Traffic, families, and other tangles
  • Dhandha : chillia taximen of Mumbai
  • Ecologies : driving work and the city
  • Joona : time and the off-modern
  • Jaalu : (auto) biographies and (auto) mobilities
  • Dekh bhal : sensory technologies of care
  • Politics : labor unions and competing forms of knowledge
  • Conclusion: Cross-roads.

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