Logistical Worlds 2: Kolkata
<p>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?</p>
Editors: Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter
Contributors: 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
Designer: Public Office
Series Editor: Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter
Part of: Open Humanities Press
ISBN: 9781785420511