Intersecting Streets: Caste & Gender in Vending Spaces in Mumbai
Saanchi Saxena, PhD student from Interuniversity Department of Regional & Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino, Italy will deliver a talk titled Intersecting Streets: Caste & Gender in Vending Spaces in Mumbai on Thursday 24 October, at 13:00.
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The talk will be delivered in the Common Room in the School of Geography building, or online on Microsoft Teams.
Saanchi has a BA in Anthropology and a Masters in Public Policy from St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Mumbai. She has worked as an urban policy researcher at the All India Institute of Local Self-Government. She is the co-founder of Academic-ish, an online platform making academia contextual and accessible, by focusing on issues from the Global South.
Her doctoral project involves ethnographic research on women street vendors, the politics of urban public space, and gendered negotiations of urban planning in Mumbai. She strongly believes in creative, multi-disciplinary approaches that see the city through an anti-caste, Southern, and feminist lens.
Talk Abstract
What does it mean to see the city through the eyes of women street vendors? What are the spatial implications of looking at caste and gender as an intersectional relation?
Through the everyday experiences of women vendors in Mumbai, I discuss how vending networks are gendered, the production of spatial relations in street markets, and ultimately, how caste, gender, and urban space are fundamentally interconnected in Indian cities.