https://www.maurafinkelstein.com/home-1 daily 1.0 2020-06-23 https://www.maurafinkelstein.com/books daily 0.75 2022-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef277b7b3f97838f6ef5730/1592952465960-2ZCFRUTNLBQU9FREVVB5/The+Archive+of+Loss.jpg Maura Finkelstein writer anthropologist Books The Archive of Loss - The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai (Duke University Press, 2019) The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai (Duke University Press April 2019), surrounds a functional textile mill in a city with no functional textile mills. Through the mill space, called “Dhanraj Spinning and Weaving Ltd,” the book asks what is missed through this misrecognition of industrial remains: spaces in which formal and informal economies collide and multiple temporalities overlap. The Archive of Loss argues that Dhanraj is an ethnographic archive of the city where documents, artifacts, and stories exist in the buildings and the bodies of workers. The lives of current textile mill workers are central to the book’s story: their pain, illnesses, injuries, and exhaustion narrate industrial decline; their lives in tenement buildings reveal a disavowed dimension of the modern values expounded by modernity; and the rumors and untruths they share about mill strikes and industrial fires help them make sense of the industry’s survival. In outlining this archive’s contents, the book shows how Dhanraj, conceptualizes as a “lively ruin,” becomes a lens through which to challenge, reimagine, and alter ways of thinking about the past, present, and future of urban labor, ruination, and the untimely embodied experience of industrial temporality. Listen to “The New Books Network” podcast interview here. https://www.maurafinkelstein.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef277b7b3f97838f6ef5730/8cfde7e6-d281-454b-837f-c8f2fb09ac87/Maura+podium.jpeg https://www.maurafinkelstein.com/home daily 0.75 2020-06-23 https://www.maurafinkelstein.com/about daily 0.75 2026-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef277b7b3f97838f6ef5730/02c360de-fd2e-4d83-ac9b-3a8bd3c1a21c/tempImagefJ3a6h.jpg Maura Finkelstein writer anthropologist About Photo by Sam Reed https://www.maurafinkelstein.com/research-articles daily 0.75 2025-05-28 https://www.maurafinkelstein.com/essays daily 0.75 2026-01-26 https://www.maurafinkelstein.com/editing-services daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://www.maurafinkelstein.com/donate daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://www.maurafinkelstein.com/anti-zionist-writing daily 0.75 2026-01-20