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Mimicry, friction and trans-urban imaginaries: Mumbai taxis/Singapore-style
Ist Teil von
Environment and planning. A, 2016-06, Vol.48 (6), p.1012-1029
Ort / Verlag
London, England: SAGE Publications
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
As Mumbai globalizes, the city’s aesthetic, aspirational, and imaginative transformations
draw from other commercial centers in Asia. Mumbai’s owner-operated and hereditary kaalipeeli (black and yellow) taxi-trade is being modeled along
the lines of Singapore’s fleet-taxi industry. This paper focuses on the political and
cultural transformations that accompany this ‘Singapore model’ as manifest in contemporary
Mumbai’s taxi-trade. Through a discussion of taxi-modernization in Mumbai it highlights
four dimensions of an “Asian mobilities” approach, namely an examination of: the movement
of ideas and people; how ideas about moving people around spaces of Asian cities
themselves move between different cities; how in turn imaginaries transform the lives of
those who labor to move people about; and finally how new kinds of mobilities are
constituted through frictions.