{"product_id":"waiting-town-lisa-bjrkman-9780924304934","title":"Waiting Town: Life in Transit and Mumbai's Other World-Class Histories","description":"Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in the Indian city of Mumbai, \u003ci\u003eWaiting Town\u003c\/i\u003e is an unconventional little book - experimental in form - about how we come to know the worlds about which we write. The narrative follows the author's fieldnotes diaries as they wend their way through a series of ethnographic puzzles that emerge in the wake of a high-profile mega-infrastructure project that became an internationally celebrated prototype and model. \u003ci\u003eWaiting Town\u003c\/i\u003e complicates this celebratory narrative by revealing the conflicting temporalities and procedural pretentions of 'world class' developmentalism. On one level, \u003ci\u003eWaiting Town\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about Mumbai - about housing schemes and scams, about 'duplicate' documents (and 'duplicate duplicates'), and about the material wreckage wrought by the city's 'world-class' ambitions. And at the same time, it has a larger story to tell about truth and falsehood, time and memory - and about the promises and pitfalls of knowledge production, interpretation and representation more generally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Bjkman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0924304936\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780924304934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Association for Asian Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Lisa Bjkman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987520389375,"sku":"9780924304934","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd087c2a-f823-45d2-ab6c-e258580eeda9.jpg?v=1683289476","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/waiting-town-lisa-bjrkman-9780924304934","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}