
Temporal Spaces in Calcutta
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Part of the Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of sociology, social anthropology, media and cultural studies, digital humanities, human geography, political sociology and postcolonial studies, and those interested in the coronavirus pandemic.
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Temporal Spaces in Calcutta: Digital Networks in the Wake of the Pandemic offers a timely provocation for questioning how we understand the dynamics of urban space. Neha Gupta and Avishek Ray's exploration of the role of human-digital interface in the conceptualization and navigation of cities helps us understand critical shifts in urban placemaking. The remit of their innovative approach is far-reaching. It urges us to bring the traditional repertoire of political theory in conversation with emergent publics and public spaces, and it asks urban historians and theorists to unlearn the frameworks of representation that we use for analyzing cities.Swati Chattopadhyay, Professor, History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara; Author of Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field (2012).
The impact of digital cultures on the urban experience in India has brought about profound transformations, reshaping how people navigate, interact, and construct their environments. For digital humanities in India, this pioneering study presents vivid case studies of urban mobility, establishing itself as a groundbreaking contribution to the field. Through the analytic lens of digitality and drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted before and during the pandemic, Neha Gupta and Avishek Ray explore emerging connections in the city of Kolkata, where place-making unfolds at the intersection of online platforms and physical spaces. Their research offers a compelling and thought-provoking examination of how digital mediation is fundamentally redefining the contours of 21st-century urban life in India.
Maya Dodd, Director, FLAME Centre for Legislative Education and Research, FLAME University; Co-editor of Practices of Digital Humanities in India: Learning by Doing (2024).
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Avishek Ray teaches at the National Institute of Technology Silchar. He is the author of The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination: Representation, Agency & Resilience (Routledge, 2022) and editor of Decolonial Travel: Vernacular Mobilities in India (Routledge, 2025). In 2021, his academic excellence was recognized with the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship.
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