Malini Ranganathan et al., "Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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The Unconventional Story of Corruption
In 2011 to 2016 in the US also where we were both located corruption is also took center stage as a political language. And so rather we realize that this is a kind of storytelling practice, like a politically and morally loaded story telling are just like other social constructs constructions. Right. We teamed up with David Pike, who I mentioned as a specialist in the underground and urban culture, and he's also written about the kind of special imagine of the slum from European modernism to go into reality. So starting in 2018 we did some joint field work in my and Bangalore. They came back with we also viewed films and read novels together they really tried to kind of bring out these little understood
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