Malini Ranganathan et al., "Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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The Rise and Fall of Corruption in the Middle Class
Neha: We all three conducted six weeks of field work for this book, a total of 50 interviews into cities Mumbai and Bangalore with various types of people from slum and middle class activists to journalists. The ethnographic method of follow the dot dot dot so in this case follow the scam. And we also feature regional films like Ambarishi which is Akhana films again set at the peripheries of Bangalore about a massive land grab scamwe also turn to more international sources like the postcolonial African novel by Nigerian novelist Chris Abani. Neha: I think through this rapprochement, this encounter between novels,. films and ethnography give a sense of the feeling, the setting
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