How might a good life be pursued in conditions of adversity? While India’s economic development seems to be soaring on paper, the on-ground realities for most are further hardships and worsening conditions. This talk, based on the book Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India, brings together questions of labour, politics, community and cosmology to consider how a good life might be pursued, even in conditions of adversity. Drawing on the lives of migrant workers in a metal factory in Delhi, the anchoring site of a long-term ethnography, as we…
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