C Mathur
Biographic Data
| ID | 20751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Mathur |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mathur |
| SIGNATURE | MATHUR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8259-0432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Class within class: His interlocutors and Jonathan Parry
Professor Hari Mohan Mathur (15 July 1937–5 October 2022), Council for Social Development, New Delhi
Economic nationalisms in a world on fire: An introduction
In the recent context of a global pandemic, wars, and climate-related crises amplified by capitalism's structural violence, a wave of economic nationalist regimes have come into power with anti-globalist stances exemplified by the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union and Trump, Putin, and Bolsonaro's defiance of transnational treaties. What do economic nationalist policies share transnationally, and how are they distinct in terms o…
A Brief History of the First Global Survey of Anthropological Practice and Some Lessons Learned
This brief article is intended to complement "The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings" in this issue of ViBrAnt. The article details the internal processes within the World Council of Anthropological Associations through which the Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP) was initiated and developed. It also discusses the issues and challenges the research team faced, as well as how it endeavored t…
The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings
The Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP), the first of its kind, was undertaken by the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) to provide insights about anthropology as a transnational profession, the ongoing relevance of the discipline in addressing global problems, issues in employment and gender equity, and the range of anthropological practice and expertise. Respondents to the survey were living in 113 different count…
Challenging cow dung Covid therapies and bullshit state policies in India in 2021
Covid-19 and India’s Trail of Tears
Singing about the dark times in the US and India: Notes on Situated Understandings in Our Age of Essentialisms
In an age where essentialisms and reductionisms appear to drive the politics of hate in most parts of the world, this essay seeks to explore the insight, hope and room for manoeuvre offered by situated local knowledges. Counterposing the “white working class” category in public discourse in the United States with the newly emergent political category of Muslim women protestors in India, the article questions the assumption that all essentialisms …
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
On the heterogeneity of the US working class
Redefining ethnography 'in the strict sense of the term: Perspectives gained from non-standard, old-new fieldwork
This essay reflects on the consequences for ethnography of the reversal of the direction of the anthropological encounter - what exactly happens when anthropologists from the Global South undertake fieldwork among populations in the Global North? I will argue that this does not merely correct historical imbalances of anthropological knowledge production, thereby changing the substance of that knowledge itself, although of course that is a goal wo…
World Anthropologies: The Ethnographic Past
Two Interviews by Vinicius Kauê Ferreira: Chandana Mathur (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) and Soumendra Patnaik (University of Delhi)
The interviews published in this issue of American Anthropologist seek to contribute to the global conversations that the World Anthropologies section has been fostering in recent years. We may not all agree about whether globalization is a recent phenomenon, but I am convinced that we all agree that social issues of a global sort require global dialogues that also take the local into account. To that end, the interviews I conducted with Chandana…
Marx at the Margins, four ways
Anthropology and the Irish Encounter
In their discussion of ancestral versus contemporary anthropology \nin Ireland, Keith Egan and Fiona Murphy (this issue) \ndo not draw a parallel distinction, quite probably deliberately, \nbetween “metropolitan” and “native” anthropologies. \nPositing a category of “native anthropology” opens up an \nexplosive set of issues about the claim to be “native”—all the \nmore combustible in a place that has known settler colonialism \nsince the 12th ce…
Twice Poisoned Bhopal: Notes on the Continuing Aftermath of the World's Worst Industrial Disaster
In one horrifying night and through the long misery of nearly eighteen years of injustice that have followed it, the city of Bhopal in India can be said to have experienced the head-on impact of world historical and political economic processes. In 1969, Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) set up a plant to manufacture the pesticide Sevin in Bhopal, with the permission and, indeed, the encouragement of the Indian government. This was the heyday of…
Transformation as Usual: The meanings of a changing labour process for Indiana aluminium workers
■ The present era of 'flexible accumulation' and crisis is widely seen to have engendered distinctive changes in the labour process. The analysis pre sented here explores the ways in which these transformations are experienced and absorbed by hourly wage workers at an aluminium plant in the United States. Of particular interest are the distinct meanings the workers attach to different managerial innovations; thus, the reordering of shift arrangem…
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Transformation as Usual: The meanings of a changing labour process for Indiana aluminium workers
■ The present era of 'flexible accumulation' and crisis is widely seen to have engendered distinctive changes in the labour process. The analysis pre sented here explores the ways in which these transformations are experienced and absorbed by hourly wage workers at an aluminium plant in the United States. Of particular interest are the distinct meanings the workers attach to different managerial innovations; thus, the reordering of shift arrangem…
The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings
The Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP), the first of its kind, was undertaken by the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) to provide insights about anthropology as a transnational profession, the ongoing relevance of the discipline in addressing global problems, issues in employment and gender equity, and the range of anthropological practice and expertise. Respondents to the survey were living in 113 different count…
Singing about the dark times in the US and India: Notes on Situated Understandings in Our Age of Essentialisms
In an age where essentialisms and reductionisms appear to drive the politics of hate in most parts of the world, this essay seeks to explore the insight, hope and room for manoeuvre offered by situated local knowledges. Counterposing the “white working class” category in public discourse in the United States with the newly emergent political category of Muslim women protestors in India, the article questions the assumption that all essentialisms …
Anthropology and the Irish Encounter
In their discussion of ancestral versus contemporary anthropology \nin Ireland, Keith Egan and Fiona Murphy (this issue) \ndo not draw a parallel distinction, quite probably deliberately, \nbetween “metropolitan” and “native” anthropologies. \nPositing a category of “native anthropology” opens up an \nexplosive set of issues about the claim to be “native”—all the \nmore combustible in a place that has known settler colonialism \nsince the 12th ce…
Redefining ethnography 'in the strict sense of the term: Perspectives gained from non-standard, old-new fieldwork
This essay reflects on the consequences for ethnography of the reversal of the direction of the anthropological encounter - what exactly happens when anthropologists from the Global South undertake fieldwork among populations in the Global North? I will argue that this does not merely correct historical imbalances of anthropological knowledge production, thereby changing the substance of that knowledge itself, although of course that is a goal wo…
World Anthropologies: The Ethnographic Past
Transformation as Usual: The meanings of a changing labour process for Indiana aluminium workers
■ The present era of 'flexible accumulation' and crisis is widely seen to have engendered distinctive changes in the labour process. The analysis pre sented here explores the ways in which these transformations are experienced and absorbed by hourly wage workers at an aluminium plant in the United States. Of particular interest are the distinct meanings the workers attach to different managerial innovations; thus, the reordering of shift arrangem…
Twice Poisoned Bhopal: Notes on the Continuing Aftermath of the World's Worst Industrial Disaster
In one horrifying night and through the long misery of nearly eighteen years of injustice that have followed it, the city of Bhopal in India can be said to have experienced the head-on impact of world historical and political economic processes. In 1969, Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) set up a plant to manufacture the pesticide Sevin in Bhopal, with the permission and, indeed, the encouragement of the Indian government. This was the heyday of…
Marx at the Margins, four ways
Anthropology and the Irish Encounter
In their discussion of ancestral versus contemporary anthropology \nin Ireland, Keith Egan and Fiona Murphy (this issue) \ndo not draw a parallel distinction, quite probably deliberately, \nbetween “metropolitan” and “native” anthropologies. \nPositing a category of “native anthropology” opens up an \nexplosive set of issues about the claim to be “native”—all the \nmore combustible in a place that has known settler colonialism \nsince the 12th ce…
World Anthropologies: The Ethnographic Past
Two Interviews by Vinicius Kauê Ferreira: Chandana Mathur (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) and Soumendra Patnaik (University of Delhi)
The interviews published in this issue of American Anthropologist seek to contribute to the global conversations that the World Anthropologies section has been fostering in recent years. We may not all agree about whether globalization is a recent phenomenon, but I am convinced that we all agree that social issues of a global sort require global dialogues that also take the local into account. To that end, the interviews I conducted with Chandana…
On the heterogeneity of the US working class
Redefining ethnography 'in the strict sense of the term: Perspectives gained from non-standard, old-new fieldwork
This essay reflects on the consequences for ethnography of the reversal of the direction of the anthropological encounter - what exactly happens when anthropologists from the Global South undertake fieldwork among populations in the Global North? I will argue that this does not merely correct historical imbalances of anthropological knowledge production, thereby changing the substance of that knowledge itself, although of course that is a goal wo…
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Covid-19 and India’s Trail of Tears
Singing about the dark times in the US and India: Notes on Situated Understandings in Our Age of Essentialisms
In an age where essentialisms and reductionisms appear to drive the politics of hate in most parts of the world, this essay seeks to explore the insight, hope and room for manoeuvre offered by situated local knowledges. Counterposing the “white working class” category in public discourse in the United States with the newly emergent political category of Muslim women protestors in India, the article questions the assumption that all essentialisms …
Challenging cow dung Covid therapies and bullshit state policies in India in 2021
Professor Hari Mohan Mathur (15 July 1937–5 October 2022), Council for Social Development, New Delhi
Economic nationalisms in a world on fire: An introduction
In the recent context of a global pandemic, wars, and climate-related crises amplified by capitalism's structural violence, a wave of economic nationalist regimes have come into power with anti-globalist stances exemplified by the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union and Trump, Putin, and Bolsonaro's defiance of transnational treaties. What do economic nationalist policies share transnationally, and how are they distinct in terms o…
A Brief History of the First Global Survey of Anthropological Practice and Some Lessons Learned
This brief article is intended to complement "The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings" in this issue of ViBrAnt. The article details the internal processes within the World Council of Anthropological Associations through which the Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP) was initiated and developed. It also discusses the issues and challenges the research team faced, as well as how it endeavored t…
The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings
The Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP), the first of its kind, was undertaken by the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) to provide insights about anthropology as a transnational profession, the ongoing relevance of the discipline in addressing global problems, issues in employment and gender equity, and the range of anthropological practice and expertise. Respondents to the survey were living in 113 different count…
Class within class: His interlocutors and Jonathan Parry
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