Tuesday
31
MAY

05:15 PM

Eating for the Nation – The Biopolitics of Consumerism in Contemporary India

Medical Anthropology Forum

Dr. Borayin Larios, University of Vienna (Austria),
Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

Food is an essential aspect of everyday life and an important marker of identity. This talk will revisit Appadurai’s concept of “gastropolitics” (1981) and bring it into conversation with the recent politicization of food consumption practices in India. Drawing from examples from different food products and their advertisement in popular media, I discuss how foodscapes are sites where identity politics are increasingly articulated and embodied. The late capitalist production, transformation, and consumption of food generates new biopolitical articulations in its relationship to caste, religion, and class in modern India. With these examples, I will demonstrate how assertive Hindu majoritarian politics redefine what it means to be an ‘ideal citizen of India’ even down to the most basic practices of subsistence.

Address

CATS

Gebäude 4110, Raum 110.02.05

Voßstraße 2

69115 Heidelberg

Homepage Event

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/mahassa/index.php?language=de&page=medicalAntWorkGroup

Organizer

Südasien-Institut, Abteilung Ethnologie

Homepage Organizer

https://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/ethno/

Contact

Vasiliki Kosmidis

Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Medical Anthropology Forum - Sommersemester 2022':

The forum as a public event was designed to be a space where senior students and researchers could gather with MAHASSA students and other interested parties to discover and discuss current themes in medical anthropology. Medical anthropology raises important intellectual and scientific questions about human suffering and wellbeing, and about the human body in its relation to culture and society. This is a “survey course,” meaning that we will survey the most important topics in this field, including illness and suffering, ethnomedicine, ritual healing, the anthropology of the body, mental health and culture, medical pluralism and hegemony, critical medical anthropology, science technology and medicine studies, and others.

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Eating for the Nation – The Biopolitics of Consumerism in Contemporary India

Dr. Borayin Larios, University of Vienna (Austria), Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

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Stuart Earle Strange, Department of Anthropology, Yale-NUS College (Singapore)

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Purbasha Mazumdar, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Graduate Institute, Geneva