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ECONOMIES OF EMPATHY: Transactions in the Course of Being Urban

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  • Yasmeen Arif

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Relationships in the city are much about economic transactions and market exchange, as scholarship about the urban amply documents. Drawing on a film that follows the precarious possibility of sleep in Delhi, India, this essay recognizes the work of ‘sleep entrepreneurs’—ordinary people who offer sleep for a price. Vignettes from Delhi illustrate the theme of empathy in the city as it is pursued here—framed differently from dominant discourses of prescribed care in the city. Viewed as a small motif of life‐affirming relationships, these transactions suggest the potential of exploring the city and the urban condition as generative of relationships that are not often analyzed.

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  • Yasmeen Arif, 2025. "ECONOMIES OF EMPATHY: Transactions in the Course of Being Urban," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 49(4), pages 1000-1006, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:49:y:2025:i:4:p:1000-1006
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13341
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