The archive of loss : lively ruination in mill land Mumbai /

The archive of loss : lively ruination in mill land Mumbai /

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Author / Creator:	Finkelstein, Maura, author.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	x, 252 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Textile industry -- India -- Mumbai -- History. Textile workers -- Housing -- India -- Mumbai. Architecture, Domestic -- India -- Mumbai. Tenement houses -- India -- Mumbai. Architecture, Domestic. Tenement houses. Textile industry. Textile workers -- Housing. India -- Mumbai. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11858766

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ISBN:	9781478003687 1478003685 9781478003984 1478003987
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Online version: Finkelstein, Maura. Archive of loss. Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 9781478004608

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