A series of collaborative public & academic engagements about roti and roti-making as a global food culture and history that connects people across south and west Asia, east Africa, across the Caribbean and their diasporas everywhere else.

Through our research projects and evens, we think with and about roti as a practice that is connected by histories of colonialism and capitalism, ancestral migration and displacement, gendered expectations including the fetishizations of making “round” rotis with domesticity.

It’s more than just a “flatbread”. We see roti is a global food with an expansive and capacious global story with much to teach us today.

What’s New at the Roti Collective

Article: Tracing Roti’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures

Read our article featured in Sapiens, an independent anthropology magazine by the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

Podcast: Both/And Reflections on our Nov 2021 Event

Listen to our latest podcast episode reflection on our November 2021 event at Philadelphia’s Asian Arts Initiative. Photo by Jino Lee/AAI.

Research: Khaana Khazana: Food Labor in Cosmopolitan India

Read about RC Scholar Megha Rastogi’s research on food workers across Mumbai eateries in cosmopolitan India.