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Skill as Problem-Space in the Contemporary Mumbai Construction Industry
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 80–85.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Rachel Sturman Abstract The ubiquity of building construction in contemporary Mumbai is transforming everyday urban life and landscape. This article examines one facet of the building construction industry: its organization of labor through distinctions of skill. Distinctions among skilled...
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Un/Known Waters: Navigating Everyday Risks of Infrastructural Breakdown in Mumbai
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 497–517.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Lisa Björkman This article turns ethnographic attention to the everyday practices involved in managing the ever-present possibility of water shortage in contemporary Mumbai. Drawing on research carried out in a few different neighborhoods—both popular as well as “world class”—that are supplied...
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Vighnaharta Shree Siddhivinayak: Ganesh, Remover of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings in Mumbai
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 263–276.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Rachel Dwyer Ganesh is a popular deity all over India, invoked before all Hindu ceremonies as the Lord of Beginnings and Remover of Obstacles (Vighnaharta). His close association with Mumbai is well attested through the Ganapati Utsav, the Ganesh festival, not least because images of his immersion...
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Monetizing Air: Infrastructure, Resettlement, and the De Facto Planning of Mumbai
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 11846278.
Published: 01 June 2025
...Sai Balakrishnan Abstract This article is a critical reading of the making of vertical cities through monetizing air. The past two decades have seen the construction of massive resettlement housing complexes in Mumbai, which activists disparagingly call “vertical slums.” These resettlement housing...
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Tarballs wash up on Aksa Beach, Mumbai. April 6, 2022. Images posted on Twi...
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Figure 5. Tarballs wash up on Aksa Beach, Mumbai. April 6, 2022. Images posted on Twitter, Oil Spill Monitoring Network of India, @IndianOilSpills, April 13, 2022.
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Fishers from many parts of the state, and particularly the Mumbai metropoli...
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Figure 7b. Fishers from many parts of the state, and particularly the Mumbai metropolitan region, attended this meeting. Photo by Nikhil Anand.
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Ports in a muddy creek. Mumbai's ports have been situated in relatively sha...
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Figure 2. Ports in a muddy creek. Mumbai's ports have been situated in relatively shallow, muddy waters of Thane Creek/Mumbai Harbor. Map by Siddharth Chitalia.
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Eviscerating the Sea
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Figure 5. Tarballs wash up on Aksa Beach, Mumbai. April 6, 2022. Images posted on Twitter, Oil Spill Monitoring Network of India, @IndianOilSpills, April 13, 2022. ...
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Voices from the African Diaspora in India: Lyric Poetry in the Sidi Sufi Devotional Tradition
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 508–520.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Jazmin Graves Eyssallenne Abstract The Islamic devotional tradition of Sidis, Indians of East African ancestry, in Gujarat and Mumbai in western India involves the performance of devotional songs. These songs constitute an oral archive that the Sidi community has preserved over generations...
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Paya Soup
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 298–299.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Harris Solomon Abstract This short story set in Mumbai imagines the enduring legacies of pandemic sickness and immunity. Everyday labors, pleasures, demands, and relations must be navigated across the fault lines of health, illness, and state surveillance. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University...
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Populism, Religion, and Nation in Contemporary India: The Evolution of the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 1–62.
Published: 01 August 2000
... of the Mumbai Sangh, or RSS (National Organization of Volunteers)3,
(formerly Bombay) government at the time of writing founded in 1925 in Nagpur, which functioned for sev-
(M. Joshi of the Shiv Sena) promised radical meas- eral decades without directly intervening in the politi-
ures to encourage...
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Dhow Itineraries: The Making of a Shadow Economy in the Western Indian Ocean
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 407–419.
Published: 01 December 2019
... the Indian Ocean, the siege of Mumbai, India, by armed gunmen on November 26, 2008, implicated mobility in the Indian Ocean in large-scale violence, as reports indicated that the maritime movement of weapons and people were crucial in planning these attacks. 1 Amid these events, governments and media...
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Restructuring the New Middle Class in Liberalizing India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 88–112.
Published: 01 August 2000
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Leela Fernandes
Introduction sumer choice. Such processes have been particularly
The policies of economic liberalization, initiated in acute in metropolitan urban centers such as Mumbai
India in the 1990s,1 have been accompanied by a set (Bombay...
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Fishing in an eviscerated sea. The shaded polygons indicate some areas in w...
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Figure 3. Fishing in an eviscerated sea. The shaded polygons indicate some areas in which fishing is not permitted on account of oil wells, pipelines, and ship traffic in the Mumbai region. Fishing is also not permitted near the shaded oil pipelines that join these oilfields to their processing
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The Columbia Global Humanities Project
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 113–116.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., the Arab world, South Asia, and China and Taiwan, in Mumbai, India, in March of 2014.1 Our goal was to discuss the state of the humanities in the different regions; share thoughts about causes and prospects; and determine whether and if so, under what modalities to seek to undertake a larger...
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Fuzzy Numbers: The Productive Nature of Ambiguity in the Hindi Film Industry
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 451–465.
Published: 01 December 2015
... finance, gambling, and
Mumbai, April 29, 1996. The lack of knowledge tainment and Media Industry, 3. governance have discussed how uncertainty is
that Barjatya is referring to is a consequence a generative feature of contemporary life. See...
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Betting on Performed Futures: Predictive Procedures at Delhi Racecourse
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 466–480.
Published: 01 December 2015
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a friend of a big trainer in Mumbai, who appar- tinguish between a reality that was naturally deter-
ently owed Chipper’s friend’s brother a favor, and mined and one that was manipulated. There was
for which reason he provided him with informa- no objective future, just a future...
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Materializing Land: Toward an Analysis of a Sociotechnics of Our Time
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 11846254.
Published: 01 June 2025
... estate, and housing in Mumbai shows how the market in transfer able development rights (TDRs) in Mumbai emerged through the hist oric ally cont ingent impera tives of a World Bank development project bolstering an unusual municip al effort to tie real estate develo pment profits...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 437–439.
Published: 01 December 2014
... and moral ties. The city’s garbage col-
ity, or breakdown. In her article on the politics of lection operates through both a municipal labor
water supply in Mumbai, Lisa Björkman explores force and an informal system of recycling, dispos-
the way communities negotiate the ever-present ing...
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Introduction: Port Environments in South Asia
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 81–85.
Published: 01 May 2024
... once colonial presidencies. This means that port developments in small rural port towns like Mundra in the Gulf of Kutch, Western India, now compete with and have the potential to overshadow established ports like Mumbai, throwing up new questions for port environments in the twenty-first century...
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