From textiles to tourism: mill work, deindustrialization and urban change in postcolonial Pondicherry

我的研究通过对工人阶级社区经历的去工业化和城市变革的历史研究，重新想象了印度南部前法国殖民地本地治里的城市历史。我把分析的重点放在这个城市的纺织工人身上，并询问他们作为工人的社会身份如何塑造了他们与城市的关系，以及在这个曾经繁荣的行业衰落的过程中生活意味着什么。利用档案资料、民族志研究和口述历史，我的研究将关注这个工业“过去”在一个令人振奋的后工业时代的回响。

My research reimagines the urban history of Pondicherry,a former French colony in South India, through a historicalstudy of deindustrialization and urban change as experienced by its working-class communities. I place analyticalfocus on the city's textile workers and ask how their social identity as workers shaped their relationship to the city,and what it means to live through the decline of this once thriving industry. Drawing on archival sources,ethnographic research and oral histories, my research will attend to reverberations of this industrial "past" within asupposedly post-industrial present.