Unfolding Spatial Movements in the Second-Hand Book Market in Kolkata

ISBN-13: 9781032274829 / Twarda / 2023 / 160 str.

Diti Bhattacharya

Opis

This insightful book unfolds the boipara, exploring the acts of thinking and writing about space and place in the context of recent key conversations at the intersections of cultural geographies, mobilities, materialities and heritage studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction.  2. The Field as it Happened to Me.  3. Becoming a Book Lover.  4. Noticing the Background-Moving Through Affective Environment.  5. Materiality and the Boipara.  6. The Boipara as an Event.  7. Conclusion.

O autorze

Diti Bhattacharya is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University. She is currently working on an Arc Discovery Project titled 'Engaging Outsiders in Sport: Transforming Major Sport Event Legacy Planning through a Co-Creation Approach'. Her area of research expertise includes human and cultural geography, South Asian diaspora, sporting geographies and leisure and tourism geographies. Her doctoral thesis examined spatial movements and material attachments in the second-hand book market of College Street, Calcutta. She combines her research practice working as a research assistant, sessional lecturer and tutor, and as a freelance writer and photographer for various publications. She also enjoys expressing her experiences as migrant woman of colour in the form of short stories, blogs and other creative practice.