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Lakshmi Kutty: High-Rise Hygiene: Narrativising Mumbai's New Urban Culture
This project attempts to explore the different narratives of hygiene and sanitation that inhabit Mumbai city spaces today, that emphasise the need for uncluttered, unperilous modes of communication and interaction, entertainment and leisure, finance and vocation, to name a few. The city space, presently and in its vision for the future,- is being plotted in terms of eliminating its polluting excesses. These new models seem to make earlier patterns and ways of inhabiting and consuming the city seem awkward and passé. The project will investigate the exclusionary mechanisms of scrutiny that animate the dominant discourse on hygiene, and will look at how these nuanced tools of power and control are getting articulated in certain print and visual media of the city.
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