[Reader-list] Fwd: Spoked Vision: Cyclists in Delhi

[zainab at xtdnet.nl]

This sounds like an amazing and wonderful and timely research theme. I
shall look forward to the postings.
Cheers,
Zainab


> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: from maninder
> Date: Monday 14 Feb 2005 4:56 pm
> From: maninder kaur <maninder_jk2003 at yahoo.co.in>
> To: Ravikant <ravikant at sarai.net>
>
> What follows is an abstract of my work that I will do as an independent
> Fellow. Your comments are most welcome.
>
> Maninder
>
>
> Spoked Vision: Cyclists on Delhi Roads
>
> Like slums, cyclists are seen as impediments and ugly sores on Delhi
> roads.
>  Though cyclists are officially and existentially lumped together with
> motor
>  vehicles, forced to drive amidst them, in many ways they more closely
>  resemble pedestrians — they are small, maneuverable, human-powered and
>  exposed to the elements. If speed is power they are literally the most
>  powerless amongst moving objects. This study would attempt to
>  ethnographically map the life of cyclists through fieldwork and
>  conversational engagements with cyclists about their needs, household
>  incomes, health conditions, employment etc. More specifically, the study
>  will focus on the survival strategies - competition and collaboration -
> on
>  the roads of Delhi, a city that has chosen to import all the right
>  liberalizing mantras from the west but not the norms of civility. In a
> city,
>  which now takes pride in the metro and the DND and multi-level drive-ins
> and
>  parking lots in multiplexes? - how does it feel to live precariously on
>  fragile frames? How do they look at these swanky developments and at the
>  special arrangements made every year for Kanwariyas on the very space,
> which
>  could belong to them, if Delhi were Europe!
>
>
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