| ID | 157874 |
| Title Proper | Wedding videos and the city |
| Other Title Information | neighbourhood, affect and community in the aftermaths of the Gujarat earthquake of 2001 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ibrahim, Farhana |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | An ethnographic illustration of post-disaster resettlement among Muslims in western Gujarat suggests that ‘moving on’ from the loss of home is a social rather than a state-directed process and that social intimacy is not necessarily produced in enclaves of religious sameness. Wedding videos filmed on the street in pre-earthquake times are not just representations of a past, but also affective and material modes of producing a community in resettlement. While resettlement has apparently led to ghettoisation and peripheralisation of the city's Muslims regardless of class, the paper argues that wedding videos are a mode of transcending such spatialisation and constitute visual and affective claims to the city in the context of post-disaster reorganisation of urban space. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 41, No.1; Mar 2018: p.121-136 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2018-03 41, 1 |
| Key Words | Gujarat ; Muslims ; Displacement ; Neighbourhood ; Earthquake ; Kutch ; Suburbanisation ; Wedding Videos |