Temporal Spaces in Calcutta

Digital Networks in the Wake of the Pandemic
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-30941-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 100 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World

This book explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped urban spatialities through the rise of digitally mediated “temporal spaces” in Calcutta. Focusing on Uber-enabled mobility, cycling pathways, and cafés, it examines how digital infrastructures and human practices intersect to create fluid, dynamic urban experiences. Challenging fixed notions of place-making, the book interrogates what it means to “return to normal” and how digitality reconfigures urban life, sociality, and imagination. By foregrounding the entanglement of digital and material realms, it offers a critical framework for understanding contemporary urban transformations in the wake of crisis and technological mediation.

Part of the Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of sociology, social anthropology, media and cultural studies, digital humanities, human geography, political sociology and post-colonial studies, and those interested in the coronavirus pandemic.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ray, Avishek

Gupta, Neha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Uber Spaces: Regimes of Legibility Chapter 3: Cycling Spaces: Local Provisioning, Networks, and Jugaad Chapter 4: Cafe Spaces: “Personal Touch”, Mediated Digitally Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Avishek Ray teaches at the National Institute of Technology Silchar. He is the author of The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination: Representation, Agency & Resilience (Routledge, 2022), and editor of Decolonial Travel Vernacular Mobilities in India (Routledge, 2025). In 2021, his academic excellence was recognized with the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship.

Neha Gupta is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai. She is an urban researcher who focuses on urban information systems and digital infrastructures.