Unfolding Spatial Movements in the Second-Hand Book Market in Kolkata - Notes on the Margins in the Boipara

This insightful book unfolds the boipara, exploring the acts of thinking and writing about space and place in the context of recent key conversations at the intersections of cultural geographies, mobilities, materialities and heritage studies.

List of contents

1. Introduction. 2. The Field as it Happened to Me. 3. Becoming a Book Lover. 4. Noticing the Background-Moving Through Affective Environment. 5. Materiality and the Boipara. 6. The Boipara as an Event. 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Diti Bhattacharya is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University. She is currently working on an Arc Discovery Project titled 'Engaging Outsiders in Sport: Transforming Major Sport Event Legacy Planning through a Co-Creation Approach'. Her area of research expertise includes human and cultural geography, South Asian diaspora, sporting geographies and leisure and tourism geographies. Her doctoral thesis examined spatial movements and material attachments in the second-hand book market of College Street, Calcutta. She combines her research practice working as a research assistant, sessional lecturer and tutor, and as a freelance writer and photographer for various publications. She also enjoys expressing her experiences as migrant woman of colour in the form of short stories, blogs and other creative practice.

Product details

• Authors: Diti Bhattacharya
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032274836
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3227483-6
• No. of pages: 132
• Series: Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion and Affect
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Human Geography, Regional Geography, Tourism industry, Retail and wholesale industries, bookshop;spatial;movements;kolkata