Maansi Parpiani
Biographic Data
| ID | 99977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maansi Parpiani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maansi |
| FAMILY NAME | Parpiani |
| SIGNATURE | PARPIANI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5749-6639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Habitability, viability and disaster risk creation in urban India
This commentary proposes a new approach to understanding postdisaster housing resettlement of informal neighborhoods in Indian cities that forefronts the longue durée. We argue that resettlement should not be viewed as simply a causal response to urban challenges of disasters, climate change, urban crowding and inequality. Disasters and postdisaster resettlements are deeply political. And, as seeing as resettled communities contend with both pers…
Made in South Asia
Labor in the textile and garment industry is at the heart of a series of recent books on South Asia. Together these books document the different scales at which textile and garment work has been structured and restructured over the last century, and its implications for workers, their health as well as collective solidarity. Across the countries of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, the industry developed and declined in vastly different te…
Class at the Crossroads
Across Indian cities, daily wagers gather every morning at large intersections or crossroads (nakas) where they seek work for the day from small construction contractors. In the satellite city of Navi Mumbai (New Mumbai), some of these daily wagers are reconstituting themselves into a class of ‘disadvantaged, crossroad workers’. This article provides an ethnographic narration of how class is experienced, constituted and asserted at a street cross…
Failure of formalization
This paper examines the demand for, creation and ultimate failure of a legislation aimed at formalizing domestic workers in Mumbai, India. The paper is based on an analysis of parliamentary discussions on the legislation process and ethnographic fieldwork with diverse groups of domestic workers undertaken between 2014 and 2021. I critique the claim that formalization policies are merely ill-suited to the norms or complexities of domestic work. In…
Becoming Working Class
In India, many women from former untouchable caste groups (Dalits) are domestic workers. Despite attempts at seeking formal, legal recognition, they continue to be seen by the state as part of a broad, ambiguous category of "informal workers" whose work is stigmatized and not legislated for. In this essay, I suggest that the discourses and practices of a neighborhood-level Dalit domestic workers' union in Mumbai reconceptualize domestic work as "…
Debdas Banerjee. Economic and Human Development in Contemporary India
Becoming Working Class
In India, many women from former untouchable caste groups (Dalits) are domestic workers. Despite attempts at seeking formal, legal recognition, they continue to be seen by the state as part of a broad, ambiguous category of "informal workers" whose work is stigmatized and not legislated for. In this essay, I suggest that the discourses and practices of a neighborhood-level Dalit domestic workers' union in Mumbai reconceptualize domestic work as "…
Failure of formalization
This paper examines the demand for, creation and ultimate failure of a legislation aimed at formalizing domestic workers in Mumbai, India. The paper is based on an analysis of parliamentary discussions on the legislation process and ethnographic fieldwork with diverse groups of domestic workers undertaken between 2014 and 2021. I critique the claim that formalization policies are merely ill-suited to the norms or complexities of domestic work. In…
Habitability, viability and disaster risk creation in urban India
This commentary proposes a new approach to understanding postdisaster housing resettlement of informal neighborhoods in Indian cities that forefronts the longue durée. We argue that resettlement should not be viewed as simply a causal response to urban challenges of disasters, climate change, urban crowding and inequality. Disasters and postdisaster resettlements are deeply political. And, as seeing as resettled communities contend with both pers…
Debdas Banerjee. Economic and Human Development in Contemporary India
Becoming Working Class
In India, many women from former untouchable caste groups (Dalits) are domestic workers. Despite attempts at seeking formal, legal recognition, they continue to be seen by the state as part of a broad, ambiguous category of "informal workers" whose work is stigmatized and not legislated for. In this essay, I suggest that the discourses and practices of a neighborhood-level Dalit domestic workers' union in Mumbai reconceptualize domestic work as "…
Class at the Crossroads
Across Indian cities, daily wagers gather every morning at large intersections or crossroads (nakas) where they seek work for the day from small construction contractors. In the satellite city of Navi Mumbai (New Mumbai), some of these daily wagers are reconstituting themselves into a class of ‘disadvantaged, crossroad workers’. This article provides an ethnographic narration of how class is experienced, constituted and asserted at a street cross…
Failure of formalization
This paper examines the demand for, creation and ultimate failure of a legislation aimed at formalizing domestic workers in Mumbai, India. The paper is based on an analysis of parliamentary discussions on the legislation process and ethnographic fieldwork with diverse groups of domestic workers undertaken between 2014 and 2021. I critique the claim that formalization policies are merely ill-suited to the norms or complexities of domestic work. In…
Habitability, viability and disaster risk creation in urban India
This commentary proposes a new approach to understanding postdisaster housing resettlement of informal neighborhoods in Indian cities that forefronts the longue durée. We argue that resettlement should not be viewed as simply a causal response to urban challenges of disasters, climate change, urban crowding and inequality. Disasters and postdisaster resettlements are deeply political. And, as seeing as resettled communities contend with both pers…
Made in South Asia
Labor in the textile and garment industry is at the heart of a series of recent books on South Asia. Together these books document the different scales at which textile and garment work has been structured and restructured over the last century, and its implications for workers, their health as well as collective solidarity. Across the countries of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, the industry developed and declined in vastly different te…
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