Cities Untold

Auteur
Solomon Benjamin is an urbanist, whose interests include practices of land occupancy, trans-national economies across India and China.

The FF Collective includes urban studies scholars who share a common interest in bringing urban space to life through assembling city walks with social science, film, photography, news media and art. The core editorial group for this volume includes sociologist and filmmaker Varun Patil, visual artist Gauri Nagpal, and policy ethnographer Harsh Mittal.

Résumé
The lived experience of urban space in India is as much a matter of narratives as it is of negotiations. Things get done via fluid constellations of groups with an opaque, entangled, indeterminate spatial existence shaping political possibility. Exploring metropolitan and small-town India's lived experience interlocking materialities of land, water, economy and gendered space, Cities Untold assembles diverse works, treating text as texture and spatial representation. It combines first-person accounts to curate readings, films, media, and refreshes a 'southern urban' that is usually locked within predictable narratives of opportunity and dystopia.