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    • Svati Shah

    Svati Shah is a post-doctoral fellow in Women's Studies at Wellesley College. She was previously Faculty Fellow in the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her doctorate focused on migration, sex work, and the informal sector in the city of Mumbai. Her work is published in a number of peer-reviewed and progressive journals, including Gender and History, Cultural Dynamics, and SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection. In addition to her research, Dr. Shah has been a part of secularist, LGBT rights, and feminist movements in the United States and in India. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in Anthropology and Public Health and her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

    E-Mail

    svasreally@gmail.com

    Department Home Page

    http://www.wellesley.edu/WomenSt/shah.html

    Urban South Asia Posts by Svati Shah

    Sex, Work and Migration in Mumbai

    Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

    Paper

    Svati Shah, “Sex Work and Secrecy” (ch.4) and “The Red Light Area: Producing the Spectacle of Sex Work” (ch.5) from Seeing Sexual Commerce: Sex, Work and Migration in the City of Mumbai, dissertation submitted to the Columbia University Department of Anthropology, 2005.

    Primary Texts

    David Harvey, “Introduction” and “On Bodies and Political Persons in Global Space” (ch.6 “The Body as Accumulation Strategy” and ch.7 “Body Politics and the Struggle for a Living Wage”) from Spaces of Hope, Berkeley: Univesity of California Press, 2000, pp.97-132

    Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, “Workers’ Politics and the Mill Districts in Bombay Between the Wars” from Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950, pp.100-142

    Kamala Kempadoo, “Introduction: Globalizing Sex Workers’ Rights” in Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema, eds., Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition, New York: Routledge, 1998, pp.1-28.

    Jeremy Seabrook, selections from In the Cities of the South: Scenes from a Developing World (ch.1 “Myths of the Megacities”, ch.2 “Urbanization: The Making of a Transnational Working Class”, ch.3 “Migrants to the City”, ch.4 “Bombay in the Nineties”, ch.6 “Labour in the Cities”, and ch.10 “Slums and Settlements”), London: Verso, 1996, pp.1-73, 86-130, 174-209)

    Supplementary Texts

    Kalpana Sharma, Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia’s Largest Slum. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.

    Mike Davis, Planet of Slums, London: Verso Books, 2005.

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