Next Stop, Delhi: The Moving City

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Explore urbanization and inequality in the Delhi Metro with anthropologist Rashmi Sadana.

Fenwick Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Fenwick Library

Take a ride with anthropologist Rashmi Sadana as she discusses urbanization, inequality, and the lives of ordinary people in The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure. In her book, Sadana provides first hand accounts from Delhi residents, and discusses how the Metro is deeply impacting the city, both geographically and socially. Asian Anthropology calls it a “delightful and interesting twist on ethnographic writing.” Sponsored by the <a href="https://soan.gmu.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Department of Sociology &amp; Anthropology</a>.T﻿his event will take place in the Fenwick Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Fenwick Library. It is part of Fall for the Book's Mini Fest. View the full schedule here: h<a href="https://fallforthebook.org/mini-fest/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ttps://fallforthebook.org/mini-fest/</a>A﻿bout the Author:Rashmi Sadana is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University and directs the Urban Research Hub in Mason’s Center for Social Science Research. She is the author of The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure, English Heart, Hindi Heartland: The Political Life of Literature in India, and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture. Rashmi has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, American Institute of Indian Studies, and Weatherhead Foundation/School for Advanced Research.

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