An Ethnographic & Sociological Study of the Delhi Metro w/ Rashmi Sadana
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on the wonderful Professor Rashmi Sadana to discuss the Delhi metro system from a political economic, sociological, and ethnographic framework, based on her terrific book The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure. Talking about the political and sociological dimensions of infrastructure is a critically important topic for us to focus on, and one which we are trying to devote a bit more time to. We recommend also checking out our recent conversation with Laleh Khalili on Red Sea Shipping & the Gaza Genocide to hear a bit more of our discussions on transportation infrastructure.
Rashmi Sadana is Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University and author of English Heart, Hindi Heartland: The Political Life of Literature in India. Keep up to date with the Professor's work by checking out her faculty webpage.
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| 0:27.7 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your co-hosts, |
| 0:39.5 | Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director |
| 0:45.3 | of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing |
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