Malini Ranganathan et al., "Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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The Urban Periphery of Corruption in Late Capitalism
I think there's so much uncovering and discovering to do on that front from, yeah. It is quite struggle to figure out how to do the positionality statement in an authentic way. I think especially if your positionality is really key to the analytics that you have in your book and the methodology, then it kind of behooves you to really be transparent about it. The Wild West frontier idea of the periphery was complicated and complimented with stories of marginality and vernacularity. More than any other space of the city at the periphery, at this kind of frontier, literal, and metaphorical frontier of capitalism,. is where you see the most naked display of violence.
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