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The slow boil : street food, rights and public space in Mumbai / Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro, author.
- Series:
- South Asia in motion.
- South Asia in Motion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Street vendors--India--Mumbai.
- Street vendors.
- Vending stands--Political aspects--India--Mumbai.
- Vending stands.
- Public spaces--Political aspects--India--Mumbai.
- Public spaces.
- Streets--Political aspects--India--Mumbai.
- Streets.
- Civil rights--India--Mumbai.
- Civil rights.
- Urban policy--India--Mumbai.
- Urban policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains they offer. In The Slow Boil, Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria draws on his long-term fieldwork with these vendors to make sense of the paradoxes within the city and, thus, to create a better understanding of urban space in general. Much urban studies literature paints street vendors either as oppressed and marginalized victims or as inventive premoderns. In contrast, Anjaria acknowledges that diverse political, economic, historic, and symbolic processes create contradictions in the vendors' everyday lives, like their illegality and proximity to the state, and their insecurity and permanence. Mumbai's disorderly sidewalks reflect the simmering tensions over livelihood, democracy, and rights that are central to the city but have long been overlooked. In The Slow Boil, these issues are not subsumed into a larger framework, but are explored on their own terms"-- Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- The unruly city
- Occupied streets
- Managing illegality
- Estranged citizens
- Improvisational urbanism.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro, author. Slow boil
- ISBN:
- 9780804799393
- 0804799393
- OCLC:
- 1198930661
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