In sociology and social anthropology, the everyday – that is, the continuing, the ordinary – and the event – the momentary and the extraordinary – appear to share a bond. This volume explores the complex and crucial relationship that exists between the event and the everyday as a methodological perspective, and highlights their close ties and significance in capturing social realities.

The contributors study contexts that are diverse and empirically rich:

• A media comedic event,
• Kashmir wracked by conflict and natural calamity, where both instances highlight the relationship between the extraordinary and everyday life;
• The event of Tibetan exile, and how the memory of this rupture plays out in the lives of later generations;
• How an event can serve as a technique of knowing larger social constructs, such as the violence and injustice that frame certain social relations.

Through their work, the authors show how the extraordinary and the ordinary are very closely connected.

Yasmeen Arif is Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University.

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1. Event as Method: Empiricisms and Epistemologies
   Yasmeen Arif
2. Kora/Chorus through the Ages: Everyday as the Site of Restitution and Change in the Lives of the Tibetan Diaspora
   Annima Bahukhandi
3. Exigency of the Present: ‘One Cannot Not Relate’ in a Disjointed Time
   Arif Hayat Nairang
4. Political Palimpsest of Time: An Ethnographic Navigation of the Lanes of Downtown Srinagar
   Bhavneet Kaur
5. The Roast Effect: The Shitstorm as Exemplum
   Karandeep Mehra
6. Humanity Washed Ashore: Suffering—Ordinary, Eventful, and In-between
   Nomaan Hasan
7. Motifs of Crisis in Kashmir: (Re)Eventalising the 2014 Floods
   Sarbani Sharma
8. The Famine-Event in Colonial India
   Shantanu Nevrekar
9. Coinciding Justice and Violence: Land Reform as an Event
   Sharib Zeya
10. Living with Mosquitoes: Exploring the Dengue Outbreak in Delhi
    Shweta Rani
11. Visibilising Scarcity
    Srishty Anand
12. The Ethnographic Object: A Composite at Play
    Subhashim Goswami

Notes on the Contributors
Index