Thinking through Urban Obsolescence: Tinkering, Repair and the Politics of Joona in Bombay/Mumbai's Taxi Trade
Thinking through Urban Obsolescence: Tinkering, Repair and the Politics of Joona in Bombay/Mumbai's Taxi Trade
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思考城市陈旧：孟买/孟买出租车行业的修修补补和 Joona 政治
DOI：
10.1111/1468-2427.12948
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Bedi, Tarini
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作者：
Bedi, Tarini
在这篇文章中，我用孟买/孟买的出租车贸易从20世纪初到现在的镜头来研究过时是如何在政治和公众的想象中根深蒂固的，以及这如何阐明城市变化中矛盾的时间经验。基于以劳动力为中心的交通基础设施方法，我提出了当特定技术和植根于过时的对进步的线性理解忽略或试图消除某些城市主体时，会发生什么。这些时间上的矛盾是如何表现出来的，结果又出现了什么样的政治和价值主张？此外，人们如何利用替代时间主张积极地创造其他时间空间来挑战以进步为导向的发展叙事？换句话说，“过时”是如何不被淘汰的？最后，我考察了物质性和物理对象（如汽车）在调解这些时间关系方面所起的作用。
In this article I use the lens of Bombay/Mumbai's taxi trade from the early twentieth century to the present to examine how obsolescence becomes ingrained in the political and public imagination, and how this can illuminate the contradictory experiences of time in changing cities. Based on a labor‐centric approach to transport infrastructure, I ask what happens when particular technologies and linear understandings of progress rooted in obsolescence pass over or attempt to erase certain urban subjects. How are these temporal contradictions manifested, and what kinds of political and value claims emerge as a result? Further, how do people actively produce other time‐spaces using alternative temporal claims to challenge progress‐oriented development narratives? How, in other words, does obsolescence resist becoming obsolete? Finally, I examine the role that materiality and physical objects such as cars play in mediating these temporal relationships.