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Description

'Seasoned by the Sea' is a community coastal cookbook. That is, it contains a collection of recipes, methods and stories about making seafood from the inhabitants of India’s Coromandel coast. For that reason, it is equally a book about the labour, ecology and the collective joy that ultimately makes the recipes delicious.

Join Dr Niranjana Ramesh to find out more about her cookbook 'Seasoned by the Sea, co-written with women in Chennai living with and from the sea, and how it speaks to the interdependence of human and oceanic health and ecologies in Chennai as a coastal city.

A link to the book's website can be found here.

This in-person event is aimed at academic colleagues and students from Medical and Social Anthropology, South Asian Studies, and Geography, and will be held in Room G.02, 16-20 George Square (please note that access is via 19 George Square).

More about our Guest Speaker

Dr Niranjana Ramesh is human geographer interested in urban natural environments and what they have to do with sociality, alterity and politics in cities, primarily in the global South. Building on experience as a journalist reporting on urban development and culture in south India, her work has long been rooted in ethnographic engagement with the everyday life of cities.

Niranjana's current research project is on Chennai’s coastal ecologies, attending in particular to issues of caste, labour and environmental justice in this material geography. Titled ‘Coastal city: materialising subaltern geographies at the urban margins’, the Leverhulme Trust funded project will culminate in a book that centres the coastal and the oceanic/sea in writing the city.