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Kirsten Francescone has her PhD in Anthropology and Political Economy from Carleton University. She is an Assistant Professor at Trent University in the International Development Studies program. Her research looks at the relationship between mining, the ecological crisis and alternatives to development. Among the courses she teaches is, “IDST4150: Post-Carbon Futures and
The labour of repair rooted in tutelage and kinship, and the loyalties and discontents that surround repair worlds regulate social order. They recast questions of interdependence and difference in cities. Kolkata’s cargo-cyclists and repair workers who assemble and maintain these old vehicles redeem the city from its disrepairs. Their location and lives are read against the history of capital, contemporary infrastructure building and the logistics of labour. While tutelage fulfils the promise of labour for those who were previously excluded from it, the kinship fostered in Kolkata’s repair worlds continues to keep workers at the margins of capital and profits.