“Don’t take too many pictures”: Discomfort as urban ethnographic method in Rajarhat
Published online on October 25, 2025
Abstract
Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
This article draws on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in Rajarhat, a planned township on Kolkata’s urban fringe, to develop what we term an “epistemology of discomfort”. Rajarhat, often portrayed as a frontier of neoliberal urbanism, is shaped ...
This article draws on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in Rajarhat, a planned township on Kolkata’s urban fringe, to develop what we term an “epistemology of discomfort”. Rajarhat, often portrayed as a frontier of neoliberal urbanism, is shaped ...