Archive for April, 2006
Social Space: Bombay and the Adeeb
Paper
Sarah Waheed, “Bombay and the Adeeb: Exploring Spaces of Sociability amongst Urdu Intellectuals, 1899-1965″, draft chapter of dissertation in the Department of History, Tufts University (2006)
Primary Texts
Ismat Chugtai, “From Bombay to Bhopal”
Sadat Hasan Manto, “Ismat Chugtai”
Walter Benjamin, “Berlin Chronicle” in Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, Peter Demetz, ed., Edmund Jephcott, trans., New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, pp. 3-60.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Adda: A History of Sociality” in Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp.180-213.
Supplementary Texts
Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life”
David Frisby, Cityscapes of Modernity, London: Polity Press, 2002, ch.1 (The Flaneur in Social Theory), ch. 3 (Georg Simmel’s Metropolis), ch. 4 (Vienna is not Berlin), ch. 5 (Otto Wagner & Vienna), ch. 6 (Social Theory, the Metropolis and Expressionism).
Siegfried Kracauer, The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays, Thomas Levin, ed., trans., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
The Bourgeois Street in Bombay
Paper
Nikhil Rao, “The Bourgeois Street in Bombay”, draft chapter of dissertation in the Department of History, University of Chicago, 2006ms
Primary Texts
Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City and Appendices to The Image of the City (1960). Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Of Garbage, Modernity and the Citizen’s Gaze” in Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp.65-79.
Sudipta Kaviraj, “Filth and the Public Sphere: Concepts and Practices about Space in Calcutta”, Public Culture vol.10, no.1 (1997) pp.83-113.
Supplementary Texts
Michel de Certeau, “Spatial Practices” and “Walking in the City” in The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendall, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, pp.91-130.
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), New York: Modern Library, 1993.
Deyan Sudjic, The 100 Mile City. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1992.