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The traffic between urban geography and masculinities studies

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: If urban dispossession is achieved through violence and spatial exclusion, how does social power in cities operate when overt violence is in abeyance and the marginalised seem to have conditional access to urban resources? City of Men (Chowdhury, 2023) takes up this question by foregrounding men's lives and the intractability of patriarchal power in cities. Through an ethnographic engagement with the mobile lives of autorickshaw and taxi drivers in present-day Kolkata, it offers an understanding of how mundane acts of cooperation between strangers and the publicly familiar – which are often premised on heteronormative morality – become a mode of reproducing the city as a space of patriarchal power. The book is oriented by four vectors of scholarly inquiry. [...]

Source: Dialogues in Human Geography

DOI: 10.1177/20438206261424533

Author: Romit Chowdhury

Institution: Erasmus University Rotterdam

Language: English

Topic: Geography and Education Methods

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Reduced inequalities, Gender equality, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,900