ANT 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Street Food
14 May 2019
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A History of Future cities
• 3.5% economic growth rate
o We are growing at less than that
o If they had stayed at this rate instead of going global, how would India
be different?
• Changed economic growth was 9-10%
o Currently at about 6%
• Disparity of wealth
o Gates surrounding parks
o Slums right outside of skyscrapers
o Repetition of geographies
• Trash
o Used to be a lot of biodegradable items
▪ Street food would come in clay cups, leaves, etc.
▪ Animals used to survive off of this organic waste
o Now they use what we do
▪ Now animals eat wrappers
▪ Urban cattle are having a hard time because they ingest these
things
Indian ‘Modernity’ and ‘Tradition’: A Gender Analysis
• Modern: technological advances, social changes, things happening today
• Modernity
o Enlightenment ideas
▪ Refocusing of thoughts from religion to science
▪ Power of reason
▪ Focusing on humans
o Technological process
o Secularization
o Liberating yourself from ignorance
o Social Relations
▪ Modern economies promote competition between people
• Justifies it as natural
▪ Ongoing tensions
• Ghandian ideals; local and no technology
• Nehurian; large technological interventions to raise the
country
• Gender perspective and how it opens up the debate about modernity vs.
tradition
• Where do our values of better and more efficient come from?
o Modernity influence
o Modern values
o Through advertising, British influence, fashion
▪ New ways of wearing Sari’s
▪ Images of the perfect woman
• Linked to national identity
