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Graduate Student, Sociology and Social Anthropology
University of Hyderabad, Departmenet of Sociology
Thesis Title: The City as a River: A Rhythmanalysis of Mangalore
About
Ian Cook completed a BA in Philosophy and Politics at the University of Liverpool with a thesis on the ethics of vegetarianism in 2005. He subsequently joined the Multicultural Centre Prague, focussing on the combination artistic and social-scientific approaches to migration and urban issues. He completed his MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University, with a thesis on gentrification in Budapest. Currently a Ph.D. candidate at the same department, he now focusses on temporal and spatial approaches to urbanisation in Mangalore, India. He also occasionally works as a writer and editor for various publications.
PhD short description:
India's ongoing rapid urbanisation, in part linked to the economic liberalisation begun in the mid-1980's, is producing a multitude of overlapping micro- and macro- derived urban rhythms that open up both possibilities and constraints for urban dwellers across the country. This project examines how the river-like flows of immaterial rhythms and their material manifestations 'dress' cities’ inhabitants and in doing so enable and disable them in entwined and forever-changing urban spatio-temporal configurations. Focussing on three material rhythms of 'agency-intensity' in the city – bodies, non-human nature and objects – I propose to undertake a ‘rhythmanalysis’ in Mangalore, a rapidly urbanising mid-sized city in south India.
