Logistical Worlds 2: Kolkata [electronic resource].

Open Humanities Press 2017

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Moving through the Burrabazar district along Kolkata’s Strand, the immediate buzz of hustling and trade obscures the crumbling warehouses that line the thoroughfare. According to a popular saying, “Everything is available in Burrabazar.” This ethos of ready supply, at least for those who are prepared to haggle (and almost everyone is), comes with an infrastructural and informational layer. “Everyone wants to buy cheap and sell dear,” writes Clifford Geertz in a classic article on the bazaar economy from the 1970s. “In the bazaar information is poor, scarce, maldistributed, inefficiently communicated, and intensely valued.” What are the material conduits that support this game of information procurement and coveting and what are the historical and political conditions that have allowed it to flourish?
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Capital movements
Geopolitics
Culture and globalization
Information Commons
Sociology

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Brett Neilson
Ned Rossiter
Subhir Baumik
Kaustubh Mani Sengupta
Iman Mitra
Immanuel Ness
Mithilesh Kumar
Elisabeth Simbürger
Carolin Philipp
Samata Biswas
Atig Ghosh
Orit Halpern
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