This book explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped urban spatialities through the rise of digitally mediated "temporal spaces" in Calcutta. Focusing on Uber-enabled mobility, cycling pathways, and cafés, it examines how digital infrastructures and human practices intersect to create fluid, dynamic urban experiences.
This book explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped urban spatialities through the rise of digitally mediated "temporal spaces" in Calcutta. Focusing on Uber-enabled mobility, cycling pathways, and cafés, it examines how digital infrastructures and human practices intersect to create fluid, dynamic urban experiences.
Avishek Ray teaches at the National Institute of Technology Silchar. He is the author of The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination: Representation, Agency & Resilience (Routledge, 2022), and editor of Decolonial Travel Vernacular Mobilities in India (Routledge, 2025). In 2021, his academic excellence was recognized with the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship. Neha Gupta is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai. She is an urban researcher who focuses on urban information systems and digital infrastructures.
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Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Uber Spaces: Regimes of Legibility Chapter 3: Cycling Spaces: Local Provisioning Networks and Jugaad Chapter 4: Cafe Spaces: "Personal Touch" Mediated Digitally Conclusion