Mumbai Taximen : Autobiographies and Automobilities in India / Tarini Bedi [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bedi, Tarini, 1973- author.

Series:

Global South Asia.

Global South Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automobiles--Social aspects.

Automobiles.

India--Mumbai.

Mumbai (India)--Social conditions.

Mumbai (India).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 230 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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 object that is driven, an economic and political connection, an expression of kinship, an embodiment of urban time and technology, and more. She illustrates how the accumulation of capital in this masculinized and mobile trade depends on forms of fixed domestic labor and an ethics of care, and how connections among these factors impact the production and reshaping of working-class personhood and laboring subjects. From beginning to end, the world of Mumbai automobility unfolds through depiction of the sensory, embodied, and political domains of taxi drivers' work. While most understandings of automobility remain tied to Western assumptions, patterns of driving, (sub)urbanization, and engagements with the road, realities in the Global South differ. Mumbai Taximen provides a correction to this imbalance from Mumbai through an timely exploration of South Asian social, material, political, labor, and technological histories and practices of motoring and automobility"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295749877

0295749873

OCLC:

1260692296