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Book Review Bombay Brokers. Lisa Björkman (ed.), Still, the volume’s titular use of Durham: Duke University Press, 2021, Bombay—instead of the newer Mumbai— 472 pp. insists that brokerage practices and ethnographic interest in them have a th Andrew McDowell history; namely, mid-20 century Tulane University scholarship suggesting that brokerage was a colonial and postcolonial form When I moved to Mumbai, an which decolonization and development officemate suggested I contact his real would render unnecessary. Brokerage, estate broker, Shom. Eventually, Shom like hypermodern Mumbai’s old name, showed me a flat and pocketed a fee for persists in a neoliberal and modernized locating the apartment, writing the lease, world with new and older meanings and managing Mumbai’s police alike. verification. I thought this would be our Bombay Brokers’ thirty-six short last interaction, but each time I passed chapters are ethnographic engagements his “office,” a chair under the shade of a with the life and work of brokerage that neighborhood tree, Shom called out and show how mediators, like Shom, and the offered to find me another apartment. moral ambivalence with which people His persistence irked the flat’s owner engage them are “at the heart of who called him a “worthless, below-a-
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Published: Apr 1, 2022
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