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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.
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