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This article uses Mikhail Bakhtin and Homi K. Bhabha’s notions of hybridity as an interpretive tool in a traditional market area situated to the north of the center of Calcutta called Barabazaar or the Great Bazaar. More specifically, I study the changing effects of colonialization and globalization on a small group of Marwari paper traders in an area at the southern end of Barabazaar called China Bazaar. Acknowledging the overlapping geographies, both indigenous and foreign, that were and are constantly negotiated in places such as Barabazaar, I define a concept of hybrid space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper critically analyses complex arrangements of actors, infrastructure technologies and practices to argue that co-production of urban service delivery entails a mutual, but contested dependence of state and non-state actors. We present two empirical cases based on in-depth qualitative fieldwork highlighting the role of Councillors regulating formal hydraulics and the fragile, volatile relations of private water provisioning in Baruipur Municipality, a small, peripheral town in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area. Characterised by groundwater arsenic, iron risks and heterogeneous urban waterscape, our analysis shows that powerful socio-political intermediaries shape everyday provisioning and access, 're-politicisation' complicating notions of collaborative alliances, equitable benefits and sustainable, material improvements. While gaps in piped water provisioning in the global South cities do find nascent community-led, collective service delivery efforts, in a socio-political context where water is understood as a public right, a state provision, does the continued reliance on the state allow joint service delivery to manifest? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Beginning in a critique of conceptualisations of entrepreneurial opportunity dominant in economics and entrepreneurship studies we draw on both the heterodox economics of G.L.S. Shackle and perspectives from phenomenology to recast entrepreneurship as an imaginative act of ‘making present’ unfolding through time and lived experience. We develop both the critique and the alternative perspective through a double reading of the case of T.E. Thomson and Co., a merchant house established in Calcutta in 1834. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Examines the segmentation of informal labor markets using a case study of motor repair vehicle workers in Calcutta, India. Influence of metropolitan area locations on the labor market; Contrast between labor markets and congested parts of the city; Impact of urban periphery on the scale and form of organizational work.

In her job as Gender and HIV Adviser for UNAIDS/UNIFEM, the author came across a movement of sex workers who are successfully negotiating safe sex in the heart of Calcutta, India. This article relates an inspiring discovery for those development professionals who are searching for ways to empower women to protect themselves, their partners, and families from HIV infection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the results of a study of married couples who participated in the oral pill program conducted by the Family Planning Research Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta, India from May to June 1969. Findings indicated that only 56% of the women respondents found pleasure from sexual intercourse with their husbands. Details are also given concerning the attitudes of illiterate women and women of a low level of education toward sexual intercourse with their husbands.

This article offers insights about the artwork of Arjun Ray, wife of a well-known architect from Calcutta, India. She is an artist that does not deal with theories. The work produced by Ray are made of leather, straw, felt, and other materials. It also include statuettes, which at first seem to be made of porcelain, but which are really shells. One of the statuettes created by Ray is known as "After Me Cometh One." Her artwork may come from a piece of sapwood, bark or root and is mounted on a base. However, without Ray's creativity, these works of art would be no more than twisted roots and brambles and branches of deodar, cedar and gardenia.