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The Slow Boil - Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai (Hardcover)
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The Slow Boil - Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai (Hardcover)
Series: South Asia in Motion
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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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