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The Slow Boil

- Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai
Af: Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria Engelsk Hardback

The Slow Boil

- Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai
Af: Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria Engelsk Hardback
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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'' everday 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.

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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'' everday 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.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 232
ISBN-13: 9780804798228
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0804798222
Kategori: Bysamfund
Udg. Dato: 18 maj 2016
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 153mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Stanford University Press
Oplagsdato: 18 maj 2016
Forfatter(e): Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
Forfatter(e) Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria


Kategori Bysamfund


ISBN-13 9780804798228


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 232


Udgave


Længde 0mm


Bredde 153mm


Højde 229mm


Udg. Dato 18 maj 2016


Oplagsdato 18 maj 2016


Forlag Stanford University Press