Cultivating Livability - Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru

What urban food networks reveal about middle class livability in times of transformation In recent years, the concept of -livability- has captured the global imagination, influencing discussions about the implications of climate change on human life and inspiring rankings of -most livable cities- in popular publications. But what really makes for a livable life, and for whom? -Cultivating Livability takes Bengaluru, India, as a case study-a city that is alternately described as India-s most and least livable megacity, where rapid transformation is undergirded by inequalities evident in the food networks connecting peri-urban farmers and the middle-class public. Anthropologist Camille Frazier probes the meaning of -livability- in Bengaluru through ethnographic work among producers and consumers, corporate intermediaries and urban information technology professionals. -Examining the varying efforts to reconfigure processes of food production, distribution, retail, and consumption, she re