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"Proximity and Distance": Lecture by Katyayani Dalmia
This research analyzes sociality and relating across community lines in Lucknow, a burgeoning city in North India. I explore how differences of caste and religion are navigated in four kinds of urban sites: the home, a beautician training academy, an annual local festival, and the old city. As I attempt to show, while each of these spaces brings people across communities into proximity, that proximity is not identical. How is affinity and difference sensed and dealt with in collective festive eating, in body-related work in the beauty training school, and between neighbours in the close lanes of old Lucknow? What kind of intercommunity interaction takes place within homes? Further, what is the place of skin colour and body in both marking, and overcoming, identities of caste, religion and class? My analysis takes into account, finally, the ideas of etiquette specifically associated with being Lucknavi, and how these shaped residents’ manner of coexisting with others.
This will be held on Monday November 9, 18:00.
Please note that this will be a virtual lecture via Zoom. Please register for the event/Zoom link by sending an email to maren.larsen@unibas.ch. (Students enrolled in the Critical Urbanisms: Current Debates course need not register)
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