The city of glassmakers

<p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/649291/picture-1582290772.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Picture 1582290772" width="100%" /></p> <p>&nbsp;We are Arnaud Kaba, anthropologist, and Shankare Gowda, Sociologist, we ask for your help to carry out our visual anthropology project on glass workers in Firozabad, in North India &nbsp;Firozabad&#39;s bracelets are worn by almost all Indian women, and their lamps and handicrafts are massively exported to Europe. Yet we know very little about the hands that make them, sometimes with pride and virtuosity, often with pain.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/649284/75501004_10212630183069015_1644057242607026176_o-1582289916.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p><br /> Your financial assistance will be invaluable and will contribute to the realization of anthropological short film&nbsp;on glass workers in Firozabad. Working with Pascal Bernhardt, documentary filmmaker, cameraman and anthropologist by training, will help us to perfect a visual method of technography and perform a narration of the subjectivities of glass workers described in everyday life situations. The visual aspect is only one component of a broader research carried out since September on the glass cultures of Firozabad, stretched between valorization of the skills and confrontation with exploitation. We will give an account of this ambivalence, between fascination and suffering, which binds glass workers to the shiny material that nourishes and corrodes them. We will dive into the lives of the actors and start from their relationship to the material, to the techniques, to explore the way in which their subjectivities are shaped by the work of glass.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/651176/74627119_10212734292031674_4775452039092109312_o-1582973482.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>The team</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em><strong>Arnaud Kaba&nbsp;</strong></em></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/649291/picture-1582290772.jpg" /></p> <p><em>Post-doctoral fellow at ICAS: MP, Delhi and at the Max-Weber Kolleg, Erfurt. </em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>After a&nbsp; PhD at the EHESS on metallurgical workers in Bhopal and their confrontation with uncertainty, Arnaud Kaba is carrying out a new cycle of research on the glass cluster of Firozabad. He is performing an ethnography onf the worker&#39;s collective subjectivities thanks to&nbsp;an anthropology of techniques, an anthropology of the glass worker&#39;s memories based on the collection of life narrative and on a participating observation of the everyday life of labour.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><em>Shankare Gowda</em></strong></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/649285/155101_463547587410_944839_n-1582290229.jpg" /></p> <p><em>Independant sociologist</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><br /> After a JNU PhD&nbsp;Shakare Gowda, specializes in Urban sociology and in direct support to the field within research teams. He notably worked with V&eacute;ronique Dupont (IRD) on the slum of Katarpur (Delhi), and co-published numerous articles with her, as well as with R&eacute;mi de Bercegol (CNRS), on the medium-sized cities of Uttar Pradesh, on water distribution networks in Delhi and finally on plastic recyclers. He has co-directed People of the waste, a documentary on Delhi waste workers. He is now co-directing this documentary on Firozabad.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Link to the People of Waste documentary:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROTSb2TRsk&amp;feature=share&amp;fbclid=IwAR0fOmgIWakR1r0TUaZ0F9aLyTr_YhjP7m3Azj_bGA3xLVxbrJIkDt3o_sg" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROTSb2TRsk&amp;feature=share&amp;fbclid=IwAR0fOmgIWakR1r0TUaZ0F9aLyTr_YhjP7m3Azj_bGA3xLVxbrJIkDt3o_sg</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><em>Pascal Bernhardt </em></strong></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/651180/13418502_1044346112308606_4263960757325146765_o-1582974347.jpg" /></p> <p><em>Visual anthropologist and documentary maker</em></p> <p><br /> Pascal Bernhardt has worked for&nbsp;the last 3 years as a cameraman,&nbsp;assistant director and research assistant on the ERC ARTIVISM project in the context of which he experimented and refined on different fields of this research methods. He therefore lived with actors whom he followed, camera at hand, in their processes of exchanges, elaboration and creation of ideas, of their technical realization (construction of chariots, masks ...) until the cathartic phases of the carnivalesque performativity. His techniques consists in the creation of an audiovisual language descriptive of gestures, bodies, thoughts and subjectivities expressed in free flow and in situation</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>