Slow Boil Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai

Name: Slow Boil Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai
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ISBN: 9780804799379

ISBN-10: 0804799377

ISBN-13: 9780804799379

Edition: 2016

Authors: Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria

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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…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 5/18/2016
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English