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100			_aRajagopal, Arvind
245			_aViolence of commodity aesthetics: hawkers demolition raids and a new regime of consumption
260			_c2002
300			_ap.65-76
362			_a5 jan
520			_aAn increasing trends point to business and political parties targeting persons rather than masses, forms of patriarchal authority are softened and diffused, leading to a revision of the older distinctions that prevailed between public and private. At the same time, as relations between individuals are mediated more through markets and media, they also generate new kinds of rights and new capacities for imagination along with new ideas of belonging or inclusion that in turn, lead to novel ways of exercising citizenship rights and conceiving politics. This experience of inclusion in new circuits of communication and of sharing inellectual property across classes, such as seen with television, can help to politicise those sections previously marginalised. This paper, examines the implications of this argument in terms of recent debates over the rights of the hawker, or the `pheriwala', in Mumbai. - Reproduced.
650			_a Violence
650			_aConsumption
650			_aHawkers
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a51452
999			_c51452 _d51452