AbdouMaliq Simone - 13 November 2017 - On the way home without a world: the case of Delhi
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Smuts Memorial Lecture Series 2017
Lecture Three: On the way home without a world: the case of Delhi Speaker: AbdouMaliq Simone (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) Lecture Three Abstract This lecture explores what it means to live without a world, without an overarching orientation or anchorage that compels bodies, things and places to have something inevitably to do with each other; where the purported coherence undermines itself in the politics of imposing a univocal frame. Here, the very intensity of segregating forces, of expulsions, land-grabs, and gentrification—which indeed are the predominant descriptors of contemporary urban development—also rebound in weird ways, suggesting, even for a moment, not the romance with urban cosmopolitan mixture, but a contingent density of differences that don’t seem to know how to narrate how they all got to be in the same “neighborhood.” Focusing on a series of “strange alliances” in a dense Muslim working class district in Delhi, I attempt to grasp how contexts that provide for both a plurality of small, continuous attainments and prolific blockages are a means of attempting to understand what it means to be at home without a world. |
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| Created: | 2018-01-25 11:11 |
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| Collection: | CRASSH |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Glenn Jobson |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | AbdouMaliq Simone; SMUTS Memorial Lecture Series; CRASSH; |
| Abstract: | Smuts Memorial Lecture Series 2017
Lecture Three: On the way home without a world: the case of Delhi Speaker: AbdouMaliq Simone (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) Lecture Three Abstract This lecture explores what it means to live without a world, without an overarching orientation or anchorage that compels bodies, things and places to have something inevitably to do with each other; where the purported coherence undermines itself in the politics of imposing a univocal frame. Here, the very intensity of segregating forces, of expulsions, land-grabs, and gentrification—which indeed are the predominant descriptors of contemporary urban development—also rebound in weird ways, suggesting, even for a moment, not the romance with urban cosmopolitan mixture, but a contingent density of differences that don’t seem to know how to narrate how they all got to be in the same “neighborhood.” Focusing on a series of “strange alliances” in a dense Muslim working class district in Delhi, I attempt to grasp how contexts that provide for both a plurality of small, continuous attainments and prolific blockages are a means of attempting to understand what it means to be at home without a world. |
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