Mumbai Fables

Prakash, Gyan

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“…It is often said that Mumbai is several cities within a city (Pinto and Fernandes, 2003;Prakash, 2010). Certainly if we work with a definition of Mumbai as the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, which includes large towns administered in part through their own municipalities, such as Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan, the case for this claim appears self- then, on account of a range of significant differences in legality, income, religion, location, and sanitation conditions.…”

Section: Mumbai: Worlds Within Worldsmentioning

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Cities within cities: intra-urban comparison of infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town

2016

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Section: Mumbai: Worlds Within Worldsmentioning

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Cities within cities: intra-urban comparison of infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town

2016

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“…It is home to India's financial district, Bollywood cinema, a powerful Underworld, and a rare if sometimes precarious multiculturalism (Mazumdar 2007;Prakash 2010;Weinstein 2008). Mumbai's informal settlements are forced into just 8 percent of the land.…”

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Informal Urban Sanitation: Everyday Life, Poverty, and Comparison

McFarlane

Desai

Graham

2014

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

112

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“…This analytical move reveals different combinatorial possibilities between street and food—combinations that involve but also transcend parameters of location. The “force of the politics of space” is a concern shared by studies of the Shiv Sena's comprehensive reach of power in Mumbai across local and regional articulations of Hindu nationalism, gender, and urban consumerism, both before and after India's economic liberalization (Appadurai ; Bedi ; Hansen , ; Katzenstein ; Masselos ; Mazzarella ; Prakash ; Rajagopal , ; Sen ). For such scholars, the street constitutes a central ground for claims to space (Anjaria ; McFarlane ).…”

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“…One approach to these questions is to engage food as an element of the city's streets, with street as a locative descriptor. This suggests that food is just one of many infrastructures that make up a city, like water or housing, which ethnographers of Mumbai and other urban settings have generatively detailed as constitutive of urban politics (Anand ; Anand and Rademacher ; Björkman ; de Boeck ; Prakash ; Varma ). In a frame of location, the relation between food and urban politics is based on the idea that food is a material located in city streets.…”

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"The Taste No Chef Can Give": Processing Street Food in Mumbai

Solomon

2015

Cult. Anthropol.

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This article examines a Mumbai street food called the vada pav. I describe how a local political party branded its own version of the food, elaborate how streetside vendors make and sell the food, and then show how corporate franchises inspired by McDonald’s rendered the vada pav “safe” and “clean” through mechanized processing. In contrast to treating the street as an empty container inside which food is placed, this article elaborates how the street is critical for changing a food from one version to another. I argue that the street lies at the heart of what I will describe as attempts at food processing. Food processing isolates raw ingredients; it singles them out to transform a food into something else. My aim is to expand what processing might entail across sites of vernacular politics and intensified corporatization. Differences in possible transformations allow for guesses about how one thing transforms into another. The particular relationship of the vada pav to the street shapes what kind of guesswork is necessary to understand processing’s political and social effects. The street marks efforts to transform the vada pav, and, accordingly, ideologies and acts of processing must move beyond a focus on location to accommodate how the street generates possibilities for urban life.

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Mumbai Fables

Cited by 105 publications

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Cities within cities: intra-urban comparison of infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town

Cities within cities: intra-urban comparison of infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town

Informal Urban Sanitation: Everyday Life, Poverty, and Comparison

"The Taste No Chef Can Give": Processing Street Food in Mumbai

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