"Good to Eat, Good to Think: Changing food practices in India" lecture by Dr. Amita Baviskar at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 2nd March 2012
Time : 3:00 pm
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture on ‘Good to Eat, Good to Think: Changing food practices in India’ by Dr. Amita Baviskar, Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
Abstract : In the last three decades, although India has witnessed radical shifts in the modes of producing and consuming food, this has stimulated surprisingly little analytical attention. The changing political economy of food production and consumption and its effects on reshaping social identities and agrarian environments remain remarkably understudied. This talk outlines the preliminary contours of a project that attempts to analyse some of these shifts through a selective discussion of changing food practices in post-Independence western India. The talk delineates the widening circuits of food as a commodity form within the home and outside, spanned by the growth of processed foods and practices of 'eating out'. It outlines the changing signification of 'food as fetish' for different social groups, and considers some potential health and ecological implications arising from the transformation.
Speaker : Dr. Amita Baviskar is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development. Her first book In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley discussed the struggle for survival by adivasis in central India against a large dam. Her subsequent work further explores the themes of resource rights, subaltern resistance and cultural identity. She has edited Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Writings; Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource; Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power; and Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes. She is currently writing about bourgeois environmentalism and spatial restructuring in the context of economic liberalization in Delhi. Amita Baviskar has taught at the University of Delhi, and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford, Cornell, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley. She is co-editor of the journal Contributions to Indian Sociology. She was awarded the 2005 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies, the 2008 VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research, and the 2010 Infosys Prize for Social Sciences.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library ( NMML ), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture on ‘Good to Eat, Good to Think: Changing food practices in India’ by Dr. Amita Baviskar, Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
Abstract : In the last three decades, although India has witnessed radical shifts in the modes of producing and consuming food, this has stimulated surprisingly little analytical attention. The changing political economy of food production and consumption and its effects on reshaping social identities and agrarian environments remain remarkably understudied. This talk outlines the preliminary contours of a project that attempts to analyse some of these shifts through a selective discussion of changing food practices in post-Independence western India. The talk delineates the widening circuits of food as a commodity form within the home and outside, spanned by the growth of processed foods and practices of 'eating out'. It outlines the changing signification of 'food as fetish' for different social groups, and considers some potential health and ecological implications arising from the transformation.
Speaker : Dr. Amita Baviskar is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development. Her first book In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley discussed the struggle for survival by adivasis in central India against a large dam. Her subsequent work further explores the themes of resource rights, subaltern resistance and cultural identity. She has edited Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Writings; Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource; Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power; and Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes. She is currently writing about bourgeois environmentalism and spatial restructuring in the context of economic liberalization in Delhi. Amita Baviskar has taught at the University of Delhi, and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford, Cornell, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley. She is co-editor of the journal Contributions to Indian Sociology. She was awarded the 2005 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies, the 2008 VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research, and the 2010 Infosys Prize for Social Sciences.
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"Good to Eat, Good to Think: Changing food practices in India" lecture by Dr. Amita Baviskar at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 2nd March 2012
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