The Slow Boil: Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai

by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804799377
• ISBN13: 9780804799379
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"