Ben Rogaly
Biographic Data
| ID | 194409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Rogaly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Rogaly |
| SIGNATURE | BEN ROGALY |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9625-7622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 399 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Lider mit Palestine: Yiddish Songs and Jewish Solidarity with Palestinians in Times of Genocide
This article examines how contemporary Yiddish songs serve as vehicles for Jewish solidarity with Palestinians during the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Building on historical sociologists’ critical concerns with comparability, we demonstrate how postvernacular cultural practice enables what Michael Rothberg terms ‘multidirectional memory’ that connects Jewish and Palestinian experiences of genocide without flattening their differences or putting them…
Connectedness and collectiveness amid islands of hope and trouble
Recognizing the centrality of hope in times of crisis, this article uses interview data produced with two community organizations in Brighton and Hove to examine how spaces of hope emerge, survive and even flourish amid despair. In doing so, we pay particular attention to the role of collectiveness and connectedness in building and sustaining hope. Our findings indicate that, for many, collectiveness, connectedness and ‘doing together’ constitute…
Hope as a practice in the face of existential crises: Resident‐activist research within and beyond the academy
Is it foolish to talk or write about hope in the face of widespread existential crises? Our answer is ‘no’. On the contrary, hope is more necessary the bleaker things become. In this article, we explore hope as a practice. Influenced by the abolition geography of Ruth Wilson Gilmore, we build on John Holloway's argument that such practices start from ourselves, where we are and our own capacities, and overflow that which contains us. We write as …
Piro V., Migrant Farmworkers in «Plastic Factories». Investigating Work-Life Struggles. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
In search of unbordered homelands: Exploring the role of music in building affective internationalist politics of solidarity
As racial nationalist regimes across the globe consolidate their power through their interconnections, so their efforts to divide people along lines of 'race', ethnicity, faith, nationality, immigration status and differentiated citizenship laws continue apace. With social media trolling and 'fake news' increasingly used as additional sources of power for the radical right, challenging racial nationalist narratives requires innovative forms of af…
Unfreedom in labour relations: From a politics of rescue to a politics of solidarity
In this introduction to the Special Forum we seek to explore the possibilities for challenging labor unfreedoms through exercising solidarity. We critique the prevailing framings and dominant politics of ‘combatting modern-day slavery’ – or what we refer to here as contemporary abolitionism.We argue that questions of coercion, control, and confinement are nonetheless increasingly pertinent to the analysis of contemporary labor relations and labor…
Local, transnational and remote solidarities in a time of crisis
From the COVID-19 pandemic to climate change, Brexit and Grenfell to the racist legacies of European colonialisms and enduring economic insecurities, recent years have been experienced as times of heightened crisis, in the UK and beyond. However, while such collective and individual threats have led many to feel fearful and isolated, in some instances they have also fostered new connections and solidarities
Commentary: Agricultural racial capitalism and rural migrant workers
This short commentary on the Special Issue ‘Agricultural Regimes and Migrant Labour’ emphasises the colonial roots of employment conditions and labour relations in the contemporary capitalist food supply chain; the continued reliance of agriculture on racialisation and unfree labour; and some of the individual and collective ways in which these have been resisted
Creativity and resistance in a hostile world
What can culture, and its manifestations in artistic and creative forms, 'do'? Creativity and resistance in a hostile world draws on original collaborative research that brings together a range of stories and perspectives on the role of creativity and resistance in a hostile world. In times of racial nationalism across the world, this volume seeks to understand how creative acts have agitated for social change. The book suggests that creative act…
Luisa Passerini, Conversations on Visual Memory
We welcome the invitation to review a book which puts conversations at its heart. Conversations between the two of us about migration, race and class have stretched over time and place, and been interwoven into our thinking, our research and our writing, some of it collaborative. The conversations that form the substance of Passerini’s book similarly stretch over long periods – some of them lasting several decades – and across continents. In refl…
Rescaling citizenship struggles in provincial urban England
Following Britain’s referendum over continued membership of the European Union (EU) in June 2016, the future status in the UK of nationals of other EU countries has become the subject of intensified political debate. Meanwhile, EU nationals from central and eastern Europe have been subject to xenophobic attacks as part of a wider post-referendum spike in racist abuse. This chapter is concerned with local-level struggles by nationals of central an…
Brexit writings and the war of position over migration, ‘race’ and class
Brexit, race and migration
This timely series of interventions scrutinises the centrality of race and migration to the 2016 Brexit campaign, vote and its aftermath. It brings together five individual pieces, with an accompanying introduction, which interrogate different facets of how race, migration and Brexit interconnect: an examination of the so-called left behinds and the fundamental intersections between geography, race and class at the heart of Brexit motivations and…
Sitting outside: Conviviality, self‐care and the design of benches in urban public space
The urban bench has been romanticised as a location of intimacy and benign social serendipity, and problematised with regard to perceptions of unwelcome loitering. In this paper we explore embodied practices of sitting on benches within an urban context characterised by corporate‐led regeneration and impacted by austerity urbanism, imperial history and ongoing racisms. Our schizocartographic methodology enables us to attend to the differentiated …
Labour geographies on the move: Migration, migrant status and work in the 21st century
That’s where my perception of it all was shattered’: Oral histories and moral geographies of food sector workers in an English city region
Geographers and oral historians continue to have much to learn from each other. The subfield of labour geography in particular can enrich its understanding of workers’ lived experiences, both in employment and beyond the workplace, through greater use of interpretative, collaborative oral history methodologies. Attentive to the temporal specificity and inter-subjectivity of people’s narratives, oral history reveals how workers’ moral geographies …
Don't show the play at the football ground, nobody will come': The micro-sociality of co-produced research in an English provincial city
This article examines the idea that community is best understood through the concept of micro-sociality, as a verb, as ongoing social relations in action, rather than a thing to be possessed, lacked or lost. Such an emphasis on already-existing relations has consequences for the conduct of publicly-funded interventions including socially engaged research projects. This article tells a part of the story of one such project in Peterborough, England…
Labour Mobility and Rural Society
Introduction - migrant workers and their role in rural change, Arjan de Haan and Ben Rogaly Fulani on the move - seasonal economic migration in the Sahel as a social process, Kate Hampshire migration, livelihoods and institutions - contrasting patterns of migration in Mali, Arjan de Haan et al brokered livelihoods - debt, labour migration and development in tribal western India, David Mosse et al seasonal migration and welfare/illfare in eastern …
Disrupting migration stories: Reading Life Histories Through the Lens of Mobility and Fixity
It has been argued that the 'mobility turn' is overcelebratory regarding human movement across space. Yet, critical studies of mobilities have emerged that refute this, demonstrating how various forms and aspects of mobility are bound up with unequal power relations. This paper engages with debates over migration and mobility through an in-depth analysis of three life history interviews recorded in England in 2011. The subjects of the interviews …
Sacred Communities: Contestations and Connections
This article discusses a project whose purpose was to review existing qualitative and quantitative data from two separate studies to provide new insights about everyday religion and belonging. Researchers engaged in knowledge exchange and dialogue with new and former research participants, with other researchers involved in similar research, and with wider academic networks beyond the core disciplines represented here, principally anthropology an…
Diversity, urban space and the right to the provincial city
Using three vignettes of the same physical space this article contributes to understanding of how the right to the city is contested in provincial England in the early twenty-first century. Oral history and ethnographic material gathered in Peterborough between 2010 and 2012 are drawn on to shed new light on the politics of diversity and urban space. This highlights the multiple place attachments and trans-spatial practices of all residents, incl…
Experiencing Space-Time: The Stretched Lifeworlds of Migrant Workers in India
In the relatively rare instances when the spatialities of temporary migrant work, workers' journeys, and labour-market negotiations have been the subject of scholarly attention, there has been little work that integrates time into the analysis. Building on a case study of low-paid and insecure migrant manual workers in the context of rapid economic growth in India, we examine both material and subjective dimensions of these workers' spatiotempora…
‘They Called Them Communists Then … What D'You Call ‘Em Now? … Insurgents?’. Narratives of British Military Expatriates in the Context of the New Imperialism
This paper addresses the question of the extent to which the colonial past provides material for contemporary actors' understanding of difference. The research from which the paper is drawn involved interview and ethnographic work in three largely white working-class estates in an English provincial city. For this paper we focus on ten life-history interviews with older participants who had spent some time abroad in the British military. Our anal…
The Idea of English Ethnicity
Robert Young, The Idea of English Ethnicity Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, 291 pp., £17.99 pb. (ISBN 9781405101295) £55.00 hb. (ISBN 9781405101288)
Moving Histories of Class and Community
White working class areas are often seen as entrenched and immobile, threatened by the arrival of 'outsiders'. This major new study of class and place since 1930 challenges accepted wisdom, demonstrating how emigration as well as shorter distance moves out of such areas can be as suffused with emotion as moving into them. Both influence people's sense of belonging to the place they live in. Using oral histories from residents of three social hous…
Spaces of Work and Everyday Life: Labour Geographies and the Agency of Unorganised Temporary Migrant Workers
In this study, I focus on the agency of unorganised temporary migrant workers - people who travel away to work for just a few weeks or months. Such workers have been relatively neglected in labour geography. Perhaps surprisingly, given the focus on the agency of capital in much of his writing, I build on two arguments made by David Harvey. First, workers' spatial mobility is complex and may involve short as well as longer term migrations, and sec…
Intensification of workplace regimes in British horticulture: The role of migrant workers
In Britain, international migrants have very recently become the major workforce in labour‐intensive horticulture. This paper explores the causes of the dramatic increase since the 1990s in the employment of migrant workers in this subsector. It locates this major change in a general pattern of intensification of horticultural production driven by an ongoing process of concentration in retailer power, and in the greater availability of migrant wo…
Labour geographies on the move: Migration, migrant status and work in the 21st century
Disrupting migration stories: Reading Life Histories Through the Lens of Mobility and Fixity
It has been argued that the 'mobility turn' is overcelebratory regarding human movement across space. Yet, critical studies of mobilities have emerged that refute this, demonstrating how various forms and aspects of mobility are bound up with unequal power relations. This paper engages with debates over migration and mobility through an in-depth analysis of three life history interviews recorded in England in 2011. The subjects of the interviews …
Sitting outside: Conviviality, self‐care and the design of benches in urban public space
The urban bench has been romanticised as a location of intimacy and benign social serendipity, and problematised with regard to perceptions of unwelcome loitering. In this paper we explore embodied practices of sitting on benches within an urban context characterised by corporate‐led regeneration and impacted by austerity urbanism, imperial history and ongoing racisms. Our schizocartographic methodology enables us to attend to the differentiated …
That’s where my perception of it all was shattered’: Oral histories and moral geographies of food sector workers in an English city region
Geographers and oral historians continue to have much to learn from each other. The subfield of labour geography in particular can enrich its understanding of workers’ lived experiences, both in employment and beyond the workplace, through greater use of interpretative, collaborative oral history methodologies. Attentive to the temporal specificity and inter-subjectivity of people’s narratives, oral history reveals how workers’ moral geographies …
Diversity, urban space and the right to the provincial city
Using three vignettes of the same physical space this article contributes to understanding of how the right to the city is contested in provincial England in the early twenty-first century. Oral history and ethnographic material gathered in Peterborough between 2010 and 2012 are drawn on to shed new light on the politics of diversity and urban space. This highlights the multiple place attachments and trans-spatial practices of all residents, incl…
Migrant Workers in the ILO 's Global Alliance Against Forced Labour Report: A critical appraisal
Temporary migration for agricultural work has long historical provenance globally, and has increased in the most recent period of globalisation. In this paper, using examples based on my own research on both cross-border (to the UK) and internal (within India) migration by workers for temporary agricultural jobs, I raise questions about how such movements, and the labour relations with which they are associated, have been represented in global an…
Micro-finance evangelism, 'destitute women', and the hard selling of a new anti-poverty formula
This article challenges the recent uncritical enthusiasm for the potential of micro-finance institutions to reduce poverty. It is argued that, although understanding about how to design anti-poverty financial intermediation has improved, the current campaign to increase resource allocation in this sector may undermine the very sustainability that is being sought. Further, studies of the impact of micro-enterprise credit suggest that it is not nec…
Commentary: Agricultural racial capitalism and rural migrant workers
This short commentary on the Special Issue ‘Agricultural Regimes and Migrant Labour’ emphasises the colonial roots of employment conditions and labour relations in the contemporary capitalist food supply chain; the continued reliance of agriculture on racialisation and unfree labour; and some of the individual and collective ways in which these have been resisted
Experiencing Space-Time: The Stretched Lifeworlds of Migrant Workers in India
In the relatively rare instances when the spatialities of temporary migrant work, workers' journeys, and labour-market negotiations have been the subject of scholarly attention, there has been little work that integrates time into the analysis. Building on a case study of low-paid and insecure migrant manual workers in the context of rapid economic growth in India, we examine both material and subjective dimensions of these workers' spatiotempora…
Agricultural growth and the structure of 'casual' labour-hiring in rural West Bengal
There are two main arguments in this article. First, if wages and employment are to be used as indicators of changing levels of rural poverty they need to be complemented by micro and meso level studies of how increases or declines in wages and employment are distributed among individuals and households. Secondly, if the nature of the relationship between employer and labourer is to be understood, aggregates such as 'casual' labour need to be unr…
They Used To Go to Eat, Now They Go to Earn: The Changing Meanings of Seasonal Migration from Puruliya District in West Bengal, India
This article uses migrant workers' testimonies to analyse whether and how much the act of migrating seasonally for wage work has contributed to changing social relations. We investigate changes in the meaning of this kind of migration to workers involved in it over their working lives. The emergence of peasant capitalism in West Bengal from the 1970s resulted in more days work and higher wages for migrant workers. This made it possible for wage w…
Workers on the move: Seasonal migration and changing social relations in rural India
This paper considers seasonal migration in different regions of India, and argues the need for a better understanding of social and economic relations and the circumstances under which migration can affect these to the benefit of poor migrant workers
Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place and Belonging in Contemporary England
A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930, that shows how meanings of poverty have changed over time and how individuals reject categorization by the state. This book challenges acce
Struggling to Save Cash: Seasonal Migration and Vulnerability in West Bengal, India
This article concerns an important but overlooked means by which able-bodied poor people get hold of lump sums of cash in rural West Bengal: seasonal migration for agricultural wage work. Drawing on a regional study of four migration streams, our main focus here is on the struggle to secure this cash by landless households in just one of those streams, originating in Murshidabad District. Case studies are used to illustrate the importance for wom…
Brexit, race and migration
This timely series of interventions scrutinises the centrality of race and migration to the 2016 Brexit campaign, vote and its aftermath. It brings together five individual pieces, with an accompanying introduction, which interrogate different facets of how race, migration and Brexit interconnect: an examination of the so-called left behinds and the fundamental intersections between geography, race and class at the heart of Brexit motivations and…
Seasonal migration, employer-worker interactions, and shifting ethnic identities in contemporary West Bengal
This article tells of changing social and spatial identities in the countryside of con temporary West Bengal. It draws on a study of interactions between those seeking wage work in agriculture and the people trying to recruit them. We find a continuing and nested process of both self-identification and categorisation. Unconscious as well as conscious ethnic affinities are consolidated and changed. At the same time, identities are used instrumenta…
Hope as a practice in the face of existential crises: Resident‐activist research within and beyond the academy
Is it foolish to talk or write about hope in the face of widespread existential crises? Our answer is ‘no’. On the contrary, hope is more necessary the bleaker things become. In this article, we explore hope as a practice. Influenced by the abolition geography of Ruth Wilson Gilmore, we build on John Holloway's argument that such practices start from ourselves, where we are and our own capacities, and overflow that which contains us. We write as …
Mrs Fairly is a Dirty, Lazy Type: Unsatisfactory Households and the Problem of Problem Families in Norwich 1942-1963
Either as the ‘underclass’, or ‘residuum’, poor families with anti-social habits have excited comment and criticism, but rarely historical analysis. Using a rich archive of material on ‘unsatisfactory households’ in Norwich from 1942 to 1963, this article argues that it is essential to understand the material conditions in which such families lived: a period of apparent prosperity throughout Britain before the ‘rediscovery of poverty’ in 1965. Th…
Eastward Ho! Leapfrogging and Seasonal Migration in Eastern India
Unfreedom in labour relations: From a politics of rescue to a politics of solidarity
In this introduction to the Special Forum we seek to explore the possibilities for challenging labor unfreedoms through exercising solidarity. We critique the prevailing framings and dominant politics of ‘combatting modern-day slavery’ – or what we refer to here as contemporary abolitionism.We argue that questions of coercion, control, and confinement are nonetheless increasingly pertinent to the analysis of contemporary labor relations and labor…
Brexit writings and the war of position over migration, ‘race’ and class
Don't show the play at the football ground, nobody will come': The micro-sociality of co-produced research in an English provincial city
This article examines the idea that community is best understood through the concept of micro-sociality, as a verb, as ongoing social relations in action, rather than a thing to be possessed, lacked or lost. Such an emphasis on already-existing relations has consequences for the conduct of publicly-funded interventions including socially engaged research projects. This article tells a part of the story of one such project in Peterborough, England…
Sacred Communities: Contestations and Connections
This article discusses a project whose purpose was to review existing qualitative and quantitative data from two separate studies to provide new insights about everyday religion and belonging. Researchers engaged in knowledge exchange and dialogue with new and former research participants, with other researchers involved in similar research, and with wider academic networks beyond the core disciplines represented here, principally anthropology an…
Eastward Ho! Leapfrogging and Seasonal Migration in Eastern India
Contractual arrangements for rural workers in Asia
Micro-finance evangelism, 'destitute women', and the hard selling of a new anti-poverty formula
This article challenges the recent uncritical enthusiasm for the potential of micro-finance institutions to reduce poverty. It is argued that, although understanding about how to design anti-poverty financial intermediation has improved, the current campaign to increase resource allocation in this sector may undermine the very sustainability that is being sought. Further, studies of the impact of micro-enterprise credit suggest that it is not nec…
Agricultural growth and the structure of 'casual' labour-hiring in rural West Bengal
There are two main arguments in this article. First, if wages and employment are to be used as indicators of changing levels of rural poverty they need to be complemented by micro and meso level studies of how increases or declines in wages and employment are distributed among individuals and households. Secondly, if the nature of the relationship between employer and labourer is to be understood, aggregates such as 'casual' labour need to be unr…
Linking Home and Market: Towards a Gendered Analysis of Changing Labour Relations in Rural West Bengal
Summaries This article identifies changing labour market relations in West Bengal agriculture and argues that these cannot be fully explained without extending the analysis beyond paid work to the questions of who does what work and why inside labour-selling households. The pragmatic approach to employer-worker negotiation adopted by the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) at the local level is built on an implicit understanding of agricult…
Workers on the move: Seasonal migration and changing social relations in rural India
This paper considers seasonal migration in different regions of India, and argues the need for a better understanding of social and economic relations and the circumstances under which migration can affect these to the benefit of poor migrant workers
Peasant Moorings: Village Ties and Mobility Rationales in South India
Introduction: Migrant Workers and Their Role in Rural Change
This introductory essay and collection concern the social processes within which migration for manual work is located and which are influenced by that same migration. Writing from detailed empirical studies of migration in South and South-east Asia and Africa, the contributors provide illustrations of the importance and normality of migration in rural life. The studies show that the relationship between migration and rural change is complex and c…
Seasonal Migration and Welfare/Illfare in Eastern India: A Social Analysis
Over 500,000 people are regularly engaged in seasonal migration for rice work into southern West Bengal. This paper analyses social processes at work in the interactions between employers and workers, and the welfare/illfare outcomes. Group identities based on religion and ethnicity are strengthened through the experience of migration and deployed by some migrants to make this form of employment less degrading. In West Bengal seasonal migration c…
Struggling to Save Cash: Seasonal Migration and Vulnerability in West Bengal, India
This article concerns an important but overlooked means by which able-bodied poor people get hold of lump sums of cash in rural West Bengal: seasonal migration for agricultural wage work. Drawing on a regional study of four migration streams, our main focus here is on the struggle to secure this cash by landless households in just one of those streams, originating in Murshidabad District. Case studies are used to illustrate the importance for wom…
Seasonal migration, employer-worker interactions, and shifting ethnic identities in contemporary West Bengal
This article tells of changing social and spatial identities in the countryside of con temporary West Bengal. It draws on a study of interactions between those seeking wage work in agriculture and the people trying to recruit them. We find a continuing and nested process of both self-identification and categorisation. Unconscious as well as conscious ethnic affinities are consolidated and changed. At the same time, identities are used instrumenta…
They Used To Go to Eat, Now They Go to Earn: The Changing Meanings of Seasonal Migration from Puruliya District in West Bengal, India
This article uses migrant workers' testimonies to analyse whether and how much the act of migrating seasonally for wage work has contributed to changing social relations. We investigate changes in the meaning of this kind of migration to workers involved in it over their working lives. The emergence of peasant capitalism in West Bengal from the 1970s resulted in more days work and higher wages for migrant workers. This made it possible for wage w…
Building assets to reduce vulnerability: Microfinance provision by a rural working people's union in Mexico
Proyecto Tequisquiapan (PT) provides protective microfinance services in a small region of rural Mexico, including, importantly, open access to deposit facilities. The authors report on new research which examined PT's record in enabling people with different degrees of vulnerability to build assets and protect themselves from both sudden shocks and more predictable demands for lump sums of cash. Proyecto Tequisquiapan was found to be relatively …
Mrs Fairly is a Dirty, Lazy Type: Unsatisfactory Households and the Problem of Problem Families in Norwich 1942-1963
Either as the ‘underclass’, or ‘residuum’, poor families with anti-social habits have excited comment and criticism, but rarely historical analysis. Using a rich archive of material on ‘unsatisfactory households’ in Norwich from 1942 to 1963, this article argues that it is essential to understand the material conditions in which such families lived: a period of apparent prosperity throughout Britain before the ‘rediscovery of poverty’ in 1965. Th…
Intensification of workplace regimes in British horticulture: The role of migrant workers
In Britain, international migrants have very recently become the major workforce in labour‐intensive horticulture. This paper explores the causes of the dramatic increase since the 1990s in the employment of migrant workers in this subsector. It locates this major change in a general pattern of intensification of horticultural production driven by an ongoing process of concentration in retailer power, and in the greater availability of migrant wo…
Migrant Workers in the ILO 's Global Alliance Against Forced Labour Report: A critical appraisal
Temporary migration for agricultural work has long historical provenance globally, and has increased in the most recent period of globalisation. In this paper, using examples based on my own research on both cross-border (to the UK) and internal (within India) migration by workers for temporary agricultural jobs, I raise questions about how such movements, and the labour relations with which they are associated, have been represented in global an…
Moving Histories of Class and Community
White working class areas are often seen as entrenched and immobile, threatened by the arrival of 'outsiders'. This major new study of class and place since 1930 challenges accepted wisdom, demonstrating how emigration as well as shorter distance moves out of such areas can be as suffused with emotion as moving into them. Both influence people's sense of belonging to the place they live in. Using oral histories from residents of three social hous…
Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place and Belonging in Contemporary England
A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930, that shows how meanings of poverty have changed over time and how individuals reject categorization by the state. This book challenges acce
Spaces of Work and Everyday Life: Labour Geographies and the Agency of Unorganised Temporary Migrant Workers
In this study, I focus on the agency of unorganised temporary migrant workers - people who travel away to work for just a few weeks or months. Such workers have been relatively neglected in labour geography. Perhaps surprisingly, given the focus on the agency of capital in much of his writing, I build on two arguments made by David Harvey. First, workers' spatial mobility is complex and may involve short as well as longer term migrations, and sec…
‘They Called Them Communists Then … What D'You Call ‘Em Now? … Insurgents?’. Narratives of British Military Expatriates in the Context of the New Imperialism
This paper addresses the question of the extent to which the colonial past provides material for contemporary actors' understanding of difference. The research from which the paper is drawn involved interview and ethnographic work in three largely white working-class estates in an English provincial city. For this paper we focus on ten life-history interviews with older participants who had spent some time abroad in the British military. Our anal…
The Idea of English Ethnicity
Robert Young, The Idea of English Ethnicity Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, 291 pp., £17.99 pb. (ISBN 9781405101295) £55.00 hb. (ISBN 9781405101288)
Experiencing Space-Time: The Stretched Lifeworlds of Migrant Workers in India
In the relatively rare instances when the spatialities of temporary migrant work, workers' journeys, and labour-market negotiations have been the subject of scholarly attention, there has been little work that integrates time into the analysis. Building on a case study of low-paid and insecure migrant manual workers in the context of rapid economic growth in India, we examine both material and subjective dimensions of these workers' spatiotempora…
Diversity, urban space and the right to the provincial city
Using three vignettes of the same physical space this article contributes to understanding of how the right to the city is contested in provincial England in the early twenty-first century. Oral history and ethnographic material gathered in Peterborough between 2010 and 2012 are drawn on to shed new light on the politics of diversity and urban space. This highlights the multiple place attachments and trans-spatial practices of all residents, incl…
Sacred Communities: Contestations and Connections
This article discusses a project whose purpose was to review existing qualitative and quantitative data from two separate studies to provide new insights about everyday religion and belonging. Researchers engaged in knowledge exchange and dialogue with new and former research participants, with other researchers involved in similar research, and with wider academic networks beyond the core disciplines represented here, principally anthropology an…
Labour Mobility and Rural Society
Introduction - migrant workers and their role in rural change, Arjan de Haan and Ben Rogaly Fulani on the move - seasonal economic migration in the Sahel as a social process, Kate Hampshire migration, livelihoods and institutions - contrasting patterns of migration in Mali, Arjan de Haan et al brokered livelihoods - debt, labour migration and development in tribal western India, David Mosse et al seasonal migration and welfare/illfare in eastern …
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