(Un)bundling Bangalore: Infrastructure bundling ‘best practices’ and assembling novel scapes

Sadoway, David; Gopakumar, Govind

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.12.006

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“…Seen in this light, streamlined technology designs proffered by low-floor buses might enhance the image of the corporation but they also further a profit-driven logic of commercialisation. These innovations are reflective of practices of assembling infrastructures through mobile best practices ( Sadoway and Gopakumar, 2017 ) in Bengaluru – a city inextricably enmeshed in networked circuits of global capital ( Brenner and Keil, 2014 ). The molarities of fare collection and streamlined design engender a macropolitics of bus operation in Bengaluru.…”

Section: Entanglements Of Bengaluru’s Busesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A contingent publicness: Entanglements on buses

Joseph

Gopakumar

2023

Urban Studies

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A lacuna in our understanding of how publicness of public transit is being constituted is the primary point of departure for this paper. In recent times, publicness has been articulated through two parallel readings – one, a political economic reading that sees publicness through static macrostructural constraints; and two, micro-sociality aboard public transit manifests an in situ and spontaneous public space. Moving beyond the static and the spontaneous, we articulate a dynamic co-constituted notion of publicness. Building upon recent work that examines the entangling of micro- and macropolitics onboard public transit and relying upon a mobile ethnographic approach revolving around situated observation and interviewing surrounding buses located in the Indian metropolis of Bengaluru, this paper offers publicness as a contingent entity that is constituted through the process of transiting.

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Section: Entanglements Of Bengaluru’s Busesmentioning

confidence: 99%