...Stephen Graham; Renu Desai; Colin McFarlane This essay excavates the complex politics of water in contemporary Mumbai. In the context of a burgeoning water crisis in the city, it explores in detail how the city’s social and political elites demonize the efforts of inhabitants of Mumbai’s slums...

... Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai Arjun Appadurai C A Brief History...

...Patrick Eisenlohr Abstract In Mumbai the sonic dimensions of place‐making and religious life are deeply connected to the right to the city. For Twelver Shi‘i Muslims, who are marginal to both the city and the nation, public religious rituals and processions have long played very important roles...

...Michael McQuarrie; Naresh Fernandes; Cassim Shepard This essay examines the relationship between the changing organization of urban space and the evolving political culture of a Mumbai slum. Recent work emphasizes that the contemporary city is highly fragmented and poor people are incapable...

...Nikhil Anand In this article I explore the political and technical controversies of measuring water leakages in Mumbai to demonstrate how the dense historical accretions of technology, material, and social life that form hydraulic infrastructures in Mumbai trouble the audit cultures of neoliberal...

.... Public Culture 12 : 1 -19. ———. 2001 . Spectral housing and urban cleansing: Notes on millennial Mumbai. Public Culture 12 : 627 -51. Appadurai, Arjun, and Holston, James. 1999 . Introduction: Cities and citizenship. In Cities and citizenship , edited by Holston. Durham, N.C.: Duke...

...Vyjayanthi Rao; Satya Pemmaraju; R. Gerard Pietrusko Duke University Press 2007 Abbas, Ackbar. 1997 . Hong Kong: Culture and the politics of disappearance . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Appadurai, Arjun. 2000 . Spectral housing and urban cleansing in millenial Mumbai...

... widespread context for design and architecture in human life. The housing-related examples I discuss show that housing as materiality cannot be understood without reference to complex and highly varied practices of mediation. The first example comes from Mumbai, where I have done research on slum...

...figures 1–3 Majority Districts, Mumbai. ...

.... Chopra, Yash, dir. 1975 . Deewar . Trimurti, India. Film. D'Monte, Darryl. 2001 . Ripping the fabric: The decline of Mumbai and its mills . New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Davis, Mike. 2007 . Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb . London: Verso. Devji, Faisal. 2005...

...figure 1 Urban form at Lamington Road, Mumbai. Courtesy of the authors. ...

...Sudarshan Shetty [email protected] Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 The Dream Box (2017) is a work that relies on a simple gesture of replication. The artist was invited to create a work that recalled Mumbai's only drive-in movie theater, which was shut down...

... during the centenary year, the first in 267 Public Culture Johannesburg, at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) of the University of the Witwatersrand, and the second in Mumbai...