BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center presents \;Sucha rita Kanjilal from \;Bard College.This talk explores why the Hindu hom e kitchen\, historically a guarded space of heterosexual caste reproductio n\, has recently opened up to culinary commodity production\, especially a s it relates to online content creation and hyperlocal catering ventures. It places this paradoxical repurposing of domestic infrastructures and its social relations in the context of advancing platform capitalism and entr epreneurial striving in contemporary India. \;As kitchens are repurpos ed into studios\, living rooms converted into editing rooms and husbands t urned into stagehands\, the Hindu household is \;re-signified into a s tart-up in the making. The talk argues that home cooks are opening themsel ves up to the digital piecework of content creation because its particular material relations \;enable them to participate in the conjuncture&nb sp\;of entrepreneurialism without unsettling the ritual constitution of th e Hindu household. The reification of social difference\, as a result\, be comes a cornerstone of platform-based media production\, with particular&n bsp\;sociopolitical \;and labor consequences. \;Consequently\, the talk demonstrates the constitutive relationship between the household and the global supply chains of digital economies.Sucharita Kanjilal is a fem inist and economic anthropologist\, and assistant professor of anthropolog y at Bard College\, New York. Her work explores the relationships between capitalism\, social difference\, platformization and food systems. Her for thcoming book\, \;Home Chefs: The Creator Economy and Capital's Domest ic Abode\, \;is an ethnographic study of platform capitalism as told f rom the kitchens of home-cooking content creators in India. Her writing an d scholarly work has appeared in \;Cultural Anthropology\, \;Femin ist Media Studies\, \;Gastronomica\, \;The Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema in India \;as well as \;The News Minute\, \;S croll.in\, The Indian Express \;and \;Hindustan Times. DTEND:20261009T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260921T182320Z DTSTART:20261009T163000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:How the Hindu Home Kitchen Opened for Business UID:RFCALITEM639255974002579741 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institute’s South Asia Center presents \;Sucharita Kanjilal from \;Bard College.

This talk explores why the Hindu home kitchen\, historically a guarded space of heterosexual caste reproduction\, has recently opened up to culinary commodity production\, especially as it relates to online cont ent creation and hyperlocal catering ventures. It places this paradoxical repurposing of domestic infrastructures and its social relations in the co ntext of advancing platform capitalism and entrepreneurial striving in con temporary India. \;As kitchens are repurposed into studios\, living ro oms converted into editing rooms and husbands turned into stagehands\, the Hindu household is \;re-signified into a start-up in the making.

The talk argues that home cooks are opening themselves up to the digita l piecework of content creation because its particular material relations& nbsp\;enable them to participate in the conjuncture \;of entrepreneuri alism without unsettling the ritual constitution of the Hindu household. T he reification of social difference\, as a result\, becomes a cornerstone of platform-based media production\, with particular \;sociopolitical& nbsp\;and labor consequences. \;Consequently\, the talk demonstrates t he constitutive relationship between the household and the global supply c hains of digital economies.

Sucharita Kanjilal is a feminist and economic anthropologist\, and assistant professor of anthrop ology at Bard College\, New York. Her work explores the relationships betw een capitalism\, social difference\, platformization and food systems. Her forthcoming book\, \;Home Chefs: The Creator Economy and Capital' s Domestic Abode\, \;is an ethnographic study of platform capital ism as told from the kitchens of home-cooking content creators in India. H er writing and scholarly work has appeared in \;Cultural Anthropol ogy\, \;Feminist Media Studies\, \;Gastronomica< /em>\, \;The Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema in India  \;as well as \;The News Minute\, \;Scroll.in\, T he Indian Express \;and \;Hindustan Times.

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