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

Anjaria Jonathan Shapiro , The Slow Boil: The Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai, Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA, 2016; 232 pp.: 978-08047-9937-9, £18.99/US$25.95

Reviewed by Kasi Eswarappa

The Slow Boil: Street Food, Rights, and Public Space in Mumbai is an ethnographic treatise of street vendors’ lives, and Anjaria succinctly visualises how the struggle for space creates generative relationships among diverse parties.

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