Luke Heslop
Biographic Data
| ID | 107489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Heslop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Heslop |
| SIGNATURE | HESLOP L |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4641-1521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Ecosystems to Advicescapes: Business, Development and Advice in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
The provision of entrepreneurship advice is a growing feature of private sector development in South Asia but has so far received little attention from researchers. The article explores the theme of business advice in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, drawing on recent ethnographic fieldwork among advice seekers to explore the significance of low-income households of business advice within the unfolding processes of both marketization and state support. …
From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings: Ghosts, Oracles, and Kinship Ambivalence in a Sri Lankan Merchant Family
This paper is oriented around moments of crises and kinship ambivalence within the home of a merchant family on the outskirts of a small town in central Sri Lanka. The problems explored play out in two registers. The first outlines relations between men that become problematic and result in disharmony at home and at work, while the second deals with a situation in which the house itself becomes the site of disorder and vulnerability. Bringing fra…
Highways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean
Navigating interdisciplinarity: Negotiating discipline, embodiment, and materiality on a field methods training course
This article elucidates some of the opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration in teaching, drawing on our participant observation as both instructors of anthropological methods and honorary students of marine ecology and geomorphology methods on a research training field course. We argue that interdisciplinary methods training offers educators opportunities for self-reflexivity, recognition of the taken-for-granted aspects o…
Roadwork: Expertise at work building roads in the Maldives
This article engages critically with concepts of 'skill', 'expertise', and 'capacity' as they operate as markers of distinction and domination and shape migratory labour relations among road construction workers from across South Asia in the Maldives archipelago. The article examines roadwork at three levels: the professional biographies leading to 'flexible specialization' rather than technical expertise amongst Maldivian managers; the technical…
A journey through 'infraspace: The financial architecture of infrastructure
This paper challenges dominant governance paradigms by exploring the world of infrastructure investment, referred to by the industry as the 'infraspace'. Starting with financial institutions and multilateral development agencies that steer global infrastructure money, it will trace the financial, technical, bureaucratic and aspirational journey of infrastructure and infrastructure planning. Examining the sociofinancial architecture of infrastruct…
Anthropology for Sale
This introduction to the Anthropology for Sale special issue makes a case for renewed attention to the selling and salescraft in anthropology. Rather than presume to know in advance what kinds of ethics and interests underpin the moment of sale the contributors to this Special Issue ask how sales work allows people to perform themselves as moral actors. In this introduction we situate the moment of sale as a moment of possibility charged with pla…
Trading on Commission in Sri Lanka's Wholesale Scene
Selling provides and arena in which notions of what could be considered 'ethical' come into correspondence. The putative meaning and order of the world outside the market seeps into the moment of sale, infused with ideas about religiosity, ethnicity, piety, masculinity and civic duty. This article analyses the moment of sale through the work of commission agents who sell to retailers on behalf of farmers in Sri Lanka's largest wholesale vegetable…
Catching the pulse: Money and circulation in a Sri Lankan marketplace
This article traces the movement, management, and generation of money in a Sri Lankan wholesale vegetable market, pulling into focus certain local economic and moral logics. What traders do with cash is revealing. I argue that how traders use money - the way it is handled, risked, spent, and lent - exhibits skill, implies hierarchy, and cultivates social connections. Exploring idioms of economic activity such as 'catching the pulse' and 'rolling …
Signboards and the Naming of Small Businesses: Personhood and Dissimulation in a Sri Lankan Market Town
This paper concerns the naming of stalls in Sri Lanka’s largest wholesale vegetable market. Each optimistically selected business name, advertised on every carefully designed signboard, I argue, speaks to material and moral economies as well as nuanced perceptions of personhood. Signboards and the names they bear tell stories about the past and the future, success and shame, separation and loss, violence and dissimulation. In the context of the s…
On sacred ground: The political performance of religious responsibility
April 2012: In Dambulla, a bustling market town built around a crossroads on the northern cusp of Sri Lanka's central province, a mosque was attacked by a procession of protestors led by the chief priest of the nearby Buddhist temple. Ostensibly the protest was against the presence of the mosque on the grounds that it had been built in an exclusively Buddhist ‘sacred area’. Beginning with an empirical account of the attack on the Dambulla mosque,…
Catching the pulse: Money and circulation in a Sri Lankan marketplace
This article traces the movement, management, and generation of money in a Sri Lankan wholesale vegetable market, pulling into focus certain local economic and moral logics. What traders do with cash is revealing. I argue that how traders use money - the way it is handled, risked, spent, and lent - exhibits skill, implies hierarchy, and cultivates social connections. Exploring idioms of economic activity such as 'catching the pulse' and 'rolling …
Roadwork: Expertise at work building roads in the Maldives
This article engages critically with concepts of 'skill', 'expertise', and 'capacity' as they operate as markers of distinction and domination and shape migratory labour relations among road construction workers from across South Asia in the Maldives archipelago. The article examines roadwork at three levels: the professional biographies leading to 'flexible specialization' rather than technical expertise amongst Maldivian managers; the technical…
On sacred ground: The political performance of religious responsibility
April 2012: In Dambulla, a bustling market town built around a crossroads on the northern cusp of Sri Lanka's central province, a mosque was attacked by a procession of protestors led by the chief priest of the nearby Buddhist temple. Ostensibly the protest was against the presence of the mosque on the grounds that it had been built in an exclusively Buddhist ‘sacred area’. Beginning with an empirical account of the attack on the Dambulla mosque,…
A journey through 'infraspace: The financial architecture of infrastructure
This paper challenges dominant governance paradigms by exploring the world of infrastructure investment, referred to by the industry as the 'infraspace'. Starting with financial institutions and multilateral development agencies that steer global infrastructure money, it will trace the financial, technical, bureaucratic and aspirational journey of infrastructure and infrastructure planning. Examining the sociofinancial architecture of infrastruct…
Anthropology for Sale
This introduction to the Anthropology for Sale special issue makes a case for renewed attention to the selling and salescraft in anthropology. Rather than presume to know in advance what kinds of ethics and interests underpin the moment of sale the contributors to this Special Issue ask how sales work allows people to perform themselves as moral actors. In this introduction we situate the moment of sale as a moment of possibility charged with pla…
From Ecosystems to Advicescapes: Business, Development and Advice in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
The provision of entrepreneurship advice is a growing feature of private sector development in South Asia but has so far received little attention from researchers. The article explores the theme of business advice in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, drawing on recent ethnographic fieldwork among advice seekers to explore the significance of low-income households of business advice within the unfolding processes of both marketization and state support. …
From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings: Ghosts, Oracles, and Kinship Ambivalence in a Sri Lankan Merchant Family
This paper is oriented around moments of crises and kinship ambivalence within the home of a merchant family on the outskirts of a small town in central Sri Lanka. The problems explored play out in two registers. The first outlines relations between men that become problematic and result in disharmony at home and at work, while the second deals with a situation in which the house itself becomes the site of disorder and vulnerability. Bringing fra…
Trading on Commission in Sri Lanka's Wholesale Scene
Selling provides and arena in which notions of what could be considered 'ethical' come into correspondence. The putative meaning and order of the world outside the market seeps into the moment of sale, infused with ideas about religiosity, ethnicity, piety, masculinity and civic duty. This article analyses the moment of sale through the work of commission agents who sell to retailers on behalf of farmers in Sri Lanka's largest wholesale vegetable…
On sacred ground: The political performance of religious responsibility
April 2012: In Dambulla, a bustling market town built around a crossroads on the northern cusp of Sri Lanka's central province, a mosque was attacked by a procession of protestors led by the chief priest of the nearby Buddhist temple. Ostensibly the protest was against the presence of the mosque on the grounds that it had been built in an exclusively Buddhist ‘sacred area’. Beginning with an empirical account of the attack on the Dambulla mosque,…
Signboards and the Naming of Small Businesses: Personhood and Dissimulation in a Sri Lankan Market Town
This paper concerns the naming of stalls in Sri Lanka’s largest wholesale vegetable market. Each optimistically selected business name, advertised on every carefully designed signboard, I argue, speaks to material and moral economies as well as nuanced perceptions of personhood. Signboards and the names they bear tell stories about the past and the future, success and shame, separation and loss, violence and dissimulation. In the context of the s…
Catching the pulse: Money and circulation in a Sri Lankan marketplace
This article traces the movement, management, and generation of money in a Sri Lankan wholesale vegetable market, pulling into focus certain local economic and moral logics. What traders do with cash is revealing. I argue that how traders use money - the way it is handled, risked, spent, and lent - exhibits skill, implies hierarchy, and cultivates social connections. Exploring idioms of economic activity such as 'catching the pulse' and 'rolling …
Anthropology for Sale
This introduction to the Anthropology for Sale special issue makes a case for renewed attention to the selling and salescraft in anthropology. Rather than presume to know in advance what kinds of ethics and interests underpin the moment of sale the contributors to this Special Issue ask how sales work allows people to perform themselves as moral actors. In this introduction we situate the moment of sale as a moment of possibility charged with pla…
Trading on Commission in Sri Lanka's Wholesale Scene
Selling provides and arena in which notions of what could be considered 'ethical' come into correspondence. The putative meaning and order of the world outside the market seeps into the moment of sale, infused with ideas about religiosity, ethnicity, piety, masculinity and civic duty. This article analyses the moment of sale through the work of commission agents who sell to retailers on behalf of farmers in Sri Lanka's largest wholesale vegetable…
Roadwork: Expertise at work building roads in the Maldives
This article engages critically with concepts of 'skill', 'expertise', and 'capacity' as they operate as markers of distinction and domination and shape migratory labour relations among road construction workers from across South Asia in the Maldives archipelago. The article examines roadwork at three levels: the professional biographies leading to 'flexible specialization' rather than technical expertise amongst Maldivian managers; the technical…
A journey through 'infraspace: The financial architecture of infrastructure
This paper challenges dominant governance paradigms by exploring the world of infrastructure investment, referred to by the industry as the 'infraspace'. Starting with financial institutions and multilateral development agencies that steer global infrastructure money, it will trace the financial, technical, bureaucratic and aspirational journey of infrastructure and infrastructure planning. Examining the sociofinancial architecture of infrastruct…
Highways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean
Navigating interdisciplinarity: Negotiating discipline, embodiment, and materiality on a field methods training course
This article elucidates some of the opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration in teaching, drawing on our participant observation as both instructors of anthropological methods and honorary students of marine ecology and geomorphology methods on a research training field course. We argue that interdisciplinary methods training offers educators opportunities for self-reflexivity, recognition of the taken-for-granted aspects o…
From Haunted Houses to Housed Hauntings: Ghosts, Oracles, and Kinship Ambivalence in a Sri Lankan Merchant Family
This paper is oriented around moments of crises and kinship ambivalence within the home of a merchant family on the outskirts of a small town in central Sri Lanka. The problems explored play out in two registers. The first outlines relations between men that become problematic and result in disharmony at home and at work, while the second deals with a situation in which the house itself becomes the site of disorder and vulnerability. Bringing fra…
From Ecosystems to Advicescapes: Business, Development and Advice in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
The provision of entrepreneurship advice is a growing feature of private sector development in South Asia but has so far received little attention from researchers. The article explores the theme of business advice in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, drawing on recent ethnographic fieldwork among advice seekers to explore the significance of low-income households of business advice within the unfolding processes of both marketization and state support. …
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · South asia (4 works)