Philippa Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3677211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philippa Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philippa |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4885-6700 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 205 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Digital denizenship: Hindu nationalist architectures of digital closings and unbelonging in India
This paper examines the sociodigital experiences of political and religious minorities in contemporary India to understand matters of voice and power, as well as feelings of belonging, identity and citizenship. It builds out from research conducted in New Delhi between February and June 2019 during and after the Indian national elections and focuses on WhatsApp as an everyday space where Hindu nationalism is (re)produced and articulated through m…
Grassroots authoritarianism: WhatsApp, middle-class boundary-making and pandemic governance in New Delhi’s neighbourhoods
Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper documents how ordinary digital technologies, such as WhatsApp, were (re)appropriated for communication and pandemic coordination at a time when face-to-face meetings were impossible. However, there was also an emergent 'dark' side to its use. In the context of India's democratic backsliding, middle-class Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) deployed everyday technologies to (re)configure e…
No Room for Dissent: Domesticating WhatsApp, Digital Private Spaces, and Lived Democracy in India
WhatsApp and digital private spaces are transforming the quality of lived democracy in India today. Bringing together STS, geographies of democracy, digital and political anthropology, and feminist approaches to the home, this paper makes visible how the Silicon Valley imaginary of the “digital living room” is domesticated in India. Drawing on digital ethnographic research in urban north India we show how WhatsApp is being used by the Hindu right…
Emigration state encounters: The everyday material life of a diaspora technology
Moral Geography
Moral geography concerns the relationship between morality, space, and power within both the material and the symbolic dimensions of life. The “moral turn” within geography was prompted by the intellectual shift to question the appearance of truth and objectivity and the emergence of new questions about development, justice and difference, distance, care, and responsibility and how moral value is linked to landscape and people. Approaches to norm…
Working at the margins? Muslim middle class professionals in India and the limits of 'labour agency
This paper explores the work-lives of middle class Muslim professionals in India's new service economy. While these workers have successfully negotiated labour market entry into the 'core' growth sectors of India's globalising economy, they are simultaneously subject to different forms of social, cultural and political marginalisation. Strikingly, they also remain at the margins of both economic geography and development geography scholarship. Th…
Everyday Peace: Politics, Citizenship and Muslim Lives in India
Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAGProviding important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday peace in northern India as it is experienced by the Hindu-Muslim community. Challenges normative understandings of Hindu-Muslim relations as relentlessly violent and the notion of peace as a romantic endpoint…
Geographies of Peace
From handshakes on the White House lawn to Picasso’s iconic dove of peace, the images and stereotypes of peace are powerful, widespread and easily recognizable. Yet if we try to offer a concise definition of peace it is altogether a more complicated exercise. Not only is peace an emotive and value-laden concept, it is also abstract, ambiguous and seemingly inextricably tied to its antithesis: war. And it is war and violence that have been so comp…
Reproducing Everyday Peace in North India: Process, Politics, and Power
Matters of war and violence continue to prove seductive foci for geographical analysis, whereas the concept of peace has remained undertheorized, more often constructed in negative terms as the absence of violence. This article responds to calls within the academy and beyond for a more critical look at the geographies of peace, through an examination of everyday peace between “Hindu traders” and “Muslim weavers” in urban north India. Building on …
Mothers' integration of work, home and community in master planned communities: What's Different
Work/life research needs to incorporate consideration of community issues and is rarely conducted in master planned communities (MPCs). To address this gap the present exploratory study aimed to examine the specific work/life integration (WLI) experiences of working mothers residing in an Australian MPC. Fifteen interviews were conducted with 10 working mothers. Data analysis involved thematic coding of interview transcripts. Findings showed that…
India's Muslims, lived secularism and realising citizenship
This article examines the dissonance between Indian secularism in theory and secularism in practice for India's largest religious minority of Muslims. Marginalised and discriminated against in everyday life, India's Muslims are frequently constructed simply as victims without recourse to agency. This article challenges this narrative by documenting how Muslims living in Varanasi in North India actively sought to realise their citizenship and a se…
Critical Geographies of Peace
Politics of citizenship: Experiencing state–society relations from the margins
This introduction discusses the articles in this Special Issue, which are all focused on exploring the everyday interactions between marginalised individuals and groups and the state in contemporary India. In particular the articles highlight the experiences of a diverse set of marginalised groups – Muslim artisans and weavers, Dalits, Tibetan exiles and post-conflict victims in Gujarat – in order to work towards an understanding of the politics …
An absent presence: Experiences of the ‘welfare state’ in an Indian Muslimmohallā
This paper examines the everyday experiences and perspectives of Muslim Ansāris (weavers) in urban north India with respect to the 'welfare state'. The case of a recent health insurance scheme, initiated by the Indian government, constitutes the paper's focus. Narratives around the scheme expressed by residents in a majority Muslim mohallā (neighbourhood) in Varanasi illustrate the ways in which the state's presence was more often experienced thr…
Marginality, Agency and Power: Experiencing the State in Contemporary India
Building 'community' for different stages of life: Physical and Social Infrastructure in Master Planned Communities
Australia’s labour market and its cities are changing, along with the nature of housing and community configurations. Major new master planned housing developments are being undertaken to meet demand as cities struggle to cope with increasing populations. Such urban developments are influencing workforce, household and community relations, which in turn drive health and well-being outcomes, and affect social capital and labour market participatio…
Kids' lives in adult space and time: How home, community, school and adult work affect opportunity for teenagers in suburban Australia
This study aimed to address significant gaps in our understanding of how teenagers live their lives within the spatial and temporal limitations imposed by an 'adult' world, and in the context of changing work and household patterns in Australia. By keeping home, community, school and parental work in equal focus it acknowledges that each of these spheres has the potential to provide resources and exert demands which will influence the opportuniti…
Family and Society in Early Stuart Glamorgan: The Household Accounts of Sir Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd, c.1565-1641
Sir Thomas Aubrey was the second son of Dr William Aubrey of Abercynrig, near Brecon, a well-known civil lawyer. Through his marriage to Mary, the elder daughter of Antony Mansel, Thomas came into considerable estates and social power at Llantrithyd, in the Vale of Glamorgan. Described by a litigant as ‘a man of a very highe and haughty disposition geven much to contention and of an unsociable cariage ...’, he exploited his wealth and position to…
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - By Naomi Klein
Clawing back time: Expansive working time and implications for work-life outcomes in Australian workers
Hindu–Muslim Brotherhood: Exploring the Dynamics of Communal Relations in Varanasi, North India
The rise of Hindu nationalism in India in recent decades has stimulated a body of academic interest emphasising the irreconcilable differences between Hindus and Muslims on the subcontinent. This article shifts the focus on Hindu–Muslim relations away from conflict to that of everyday peace, where peace is perceived as an active process towards the non-violent resolution of communal conflict. The terrorist attacks in Varanasi, north India, in Mar…
The Treason and Trial of Sir John Perrot
Even in the dark and vicious world of Elizabethan court politics the conviction for treason of Sir John Perrot seems shocking. It is hard not to be astonished by what happened. Perrot was in every sense a big man, ‘choleric’, outspoken, brave and loyal. He served as Lord Deputy in Ireland from 1584 to 1588 and showed himself to be vigorous, purposeful and intelligent. In the end his plans for reform came to nothing; but that was true of all Eliza…
The Government of Scotland, 1560-1625
I remember the late Professor Chrimes, just arrived in Cardiff from Glasgow in 1955, commenting favourably on the substantial volume of work done on Welsh history compared with the relatively sparse output of Scottish historians at that time. No one could be so dismissive of the state of Scottish history today. The bibliography of Julian Goodare's excellent book is a tribute to the quality and quantity of work on the subject during the last fifte…
Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland
THE Braddick-Walter volume consists of an introduction by the joint editors, ten separate articles by the editors themselves, and eight others. The introduction, written in prose derived from the post-structuralist handbook in a style that can only be described as ‘reader-repellent’, draws heavily upon the works of the sociologist, J.C. Scott, author of Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven, 1985).The buzz-words are…
Defining Social Support in Context: A Necessary Step in Improving Research, Intervention, and Practice
A substantial body of work on the concept of social support has resulted in many definitions, but none have been accepted as definitive. The lack of consensus about the definition of social support has resulted in a lack of consistency and comparability among studies. More important, the validity of any study attempting to measure or influence social support is undermined by the use of generic definitions, which lack contextual sensitivity. In th…
Critical Geographies of Peace
Defining Social Support in Context: A Necessary Step in Improving Research, Intervention, and Practice
A substantial body of work on the concept of social support has resulted in many definitions, but none have been accepted as definitive. The lack of consensus about the definition of social support has resulted in a lack of consistency and comparability among studies. More important, the validity of any study attempting to measure or influence social support is undermined by the use of generic definitions, which lack contextual sensitivity. In th…
The New Conservatism: Some Thoughts on Recent and Future Developments in Urban Studies
Clawing back time: Expansive working time and implications for work-life outcomes in Australian workers
Building 'community' for different stages of life: Physical and Social Infrastructure in Master Planned Communities
Australia’s labour market and its cities are changing, along with the nature of housing and community configurations. Major new master planned housing developments are being undertaken to meet demand as cities struggle to cope with increasing populations. Such urban developments are influencing workforce, household and community relations, which in turn drive health and well-being outcomes, and affect social capital and labour market participatio…
India's Muslims, lived secularism and realising citizenship
This article examines the dissonance between Indian secularism in theory and secularism in practice for India's largest religious minority of Muslims. Marginalised and discriminated against in everyday life, India's Muslims are frequently constructed simply as victims without recourse to agency. This article challenges this narrative by documenting how Muslims living in Varanasi in North India actively sought to realise their citizenship and a se…
Hindu–Muslim Brotherhood: Exploring the Dynamics of Communal Relations in Varanasi, North India
The rise of Hindu nationalism in India in recent decades has stimulated a body of academic interest emphasising the irreconcilable differences between Hindus and Muslims on the subcontinent. This article shifts the focus on Hindu–Muslim relations away from conflict to that of everyday peace, where peace is perceived as an active process towards the non-violent resolution of communal conflict. The terrorist attacks in Varanasi, north India, in Mar…
Reproducing Everyday Peace in North India: Process, Politics, and Power
Matters of war and violence continue to prove seductive foci for geographical analysis, whereas the concept of peace has remained undertheorized, more often constructed in negative terms as the absence of violence. This article responds to calls within the academy and beyond for a more critical look at the geographies of peace, through an examination of everyday peace between “Hindu traders” and “Muslim weavers” in urban north India. Building on …
Marginality, Agency and Power: Experiencing the State in Contemporary India
Grassroots authoritarianism: WhatsApp, middle-class boundary-making and pandemic governance in New Delhi’s neighbourhoods
Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper documents how ordinary digital technologies, such as WhatsApp, were (re)appropriated for communication and pandemic coordination at a time when face-to-face meetings were impossible. However, there was also an emergent 'dark' side to its use. In the context of India's democratic backsliding, middle-class Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) deployed everyday technologies to (re)configure e…
Working at the margins? Muslim middle class professionals in India and the limits of 'labour agency
This paper explores the work-lives of middle class Muslim professionals in India's new service economy. While these workers have successfully negotiated labour market entry into the 'core' growth sectors of India's globalising economy, they are simultaneously subject to different forms of social, cultural and political marginalisation. Strikingly, they also remain at the margins of both economic geography and development geography scholarship. Th…
An absent presence: Experiences of the ‘welfare state’ in an Indian Muslimmohallā
This paper examines the everyday experiences and perspectives of Muslim Ansāris (weavers) in urban north India with respect to the 'welfare state'. The case of a recent health insurance scheme, initiated by the Indian government, constitutes the paper's focus. Narratives around the scheme expressed by residents in a majority Muslim mohallā (neighbourhood) in Varanasi illustrate the ways in which the state's presence was more often experienced thr…
Emigration state encounters: The everyday material life of a diaspora technology
No Room for Dissent: Domesticating WhatsApp, Digital Private Spaces, and Lived Democracy in India
WhatsApp and digital private spaces are transforming the quality of lived democracy in India today. Bringing together STS, geographies of democracy, digital and political anthropology, and feminist approaches to the home, this paper makes visible how the Silicon Valley imaginary of the “digital living room” is domesticated in India. Drawing on digital ethnographic research in urban north India we show how WhatsApp is being used by the Hindu right…
Politics of citizenship: Experiencing state–society relations from the margins
This introduction discusses the articles in this Special Issue, which are all focused on exploring the everyday interactions between marginalised individuals and groups and the state in contemporary India. In particular the articles highlight the experiences of a diverse set of marginalised groups – Muslim artisans and weavers, Dalits, Tibetan exiles and post-conflict victims in Gujarat – in order to work towards an understanding of the politics …
Kids' lives in adult space and time: How home, community, school and adult work affect opportunity for teenagers in suburban Australia
This study aimed to address significant gaps in our understanding of how teenagers live their lives within the spatial and temporal limitations imposed by an 'adult' world, and in the context of changing work and household patterns in Australia. By keeping home, community, school and parental work in equal focus it acknowledges that each of these spheres has the potential to provide resources and exert demands which will influence the opportuniti…
Digital denizenship: Hindu nationalist architectures of digital closings and unbelonging in India
This paper examines the sociodigital experiences of political and religious minorities in contemporary India to understand matters of voice and power, as well as feelings of belonging, identity and citizenship. It builds out from research conducted in New Delhi between February and June 2019 during and after the Indian national elections and focuses on WhatsApp as an everyday space where Hindu nationalism is (re)produced and articulated through m…
Mothers' integration of work, home and community in master planned communities: What's Different
Work/life research needs to incorporate consideration of community issues and is rarely conducted in master planned communities (MPCs). To address this gap the present exploratory study aimed to examine the specific work/life integration (WLI) experiences of working mothers residing in an Australian MPC. Fifteen interviews were conducted with 10 working mothers. Data analysis involved thematic coding of interview transcripts. Findings showed that…
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - By Naomi Klein
Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland
THE Braddick-Walter volume consists of an introduction by the joint editors, ten separate articles by the editors themselves, and eight others. The introduction, written in prose derived from the post-structuralist handbook in a style that can only be described as ‘reader-repellent’, draws heavily upon the works of the sociologist, J.C. Scott, author of Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven, 1985).The buzz-words are…
The New Conservatism: Some Thoughts on Recent and Future Developments in Urban Studies
Defining Social Support in Context: A Necessary Step in Improving Research, Intervention, and Practice
A substantial body of work on the concept of social support has resulted in many definitions, but none have been accepted as definitive. The lack of consensus about the definition of social support has resulted in a lack of consistency and comparability among studies. More important, the validity of any study attempting to measure or influence social support is undermined by the use of generic definitions, which lack contextual sensitivity. In th…
The Government of Scotland, 1560-1625
I remember the late Professor Chrimes, just arrived in Cardiff from Glasgow in 1955, commenting favourably on the substantial volume of work done on Welsh history compared with the relatively sparse output of Scottish historians at that time. No one could be so dismissive of the state of Scottish history today. The bibliography of Julian Goodare's excellent book is a tribute to the quality and quantity of work on the subject during the last fifte…
Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland
THE Braddick-Walter volume consists of an introduction by the joint editors, ten separate articles by the editors themselves, and eight others. The introduction, written in prose derived from the post-structuralist handbook in a style that can only be described as ‘reader-repellent’, draws heavily upon the works of the sociologist, J.C. Scott, author of Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven, 1985).The buzz-words are…
Hindu–Muslim Brotherhood: Exploring the Dynamics of Communal Relations in Varanasi, North India
The rise of Hindu nationalism in India in recent decades has stimulated a body of academic interest emphasising the irreconcilable differences between Hindus and Muslims on the subcontinent. This article shifts the focus on Hindu–Muslim relations away from conflict to that of everyday peace, where peace is perceived as an active process towards the non-violent resolution of communal conflict. The terrorist attacks in Varanasi, north India, in Mar…
The Treason and Trial of Sir John Perrot
Even in the dark and vicious world of Elizabethan court politics the conviction for treason of Sir John Perrot seems shocking. It is hard not to be astonished by what happened. Perrot was in every sense a big man, ‘choleric’, outspoken, brave and loyal. He served as Lord Deputy in Ireland from 1584 to 1588 and showed himself to be vigorous, purposeful and intelligent. In the end his plans for reform came to nothing; but that was true of all Eliza…
Family and Society in Early Stuart Glamorgan: The Household Accounts of Sir Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd, c.1565-1641
Sir Thomas Aubrey was the second son of Dr William Aubrey of Abercynrig, near Brecon, a well-known civil lawyer. Through his marriage to Mary, the elder daughter of Antony Mansel, Thomas came into considerable estates and social power at Llantrithyd, in the Vale of Glamorgan. Described by a litigant as ‘a man of a very highe and haughty disposition geven much to contention and of an unsociable cariage ...’, he exploited his wealth and position to…
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - By Naomi Klein
Clawing back time: Expansive working time and implications for work-life outcomes in Australian workers
Kids' lives in adult space and time: How home, community, school and adult work affect opportunity for teenagers in suburban Australia
This study aimed to address significant gaps in our understanding of how teenagers live their lives within the spatial and temporal limitations imposed by an 'adult' world, and in the context of changing work and household patterns in Australia. By keeping home, community, school and parental work in equal focus it acknowledges that each of these spheres has the potential to provide resources and exert demands which will influence the opportuniti…
Building 'community' for different stages of life: Physical and Social Infrastructure in Master Planned Communities
Australia’s labour market and its cities are changing, along with the nature of housing and community configurations. Major new master planned housing developments are being undertaken to meet demand as cities struggle to cope with increasing populations. Such urban developments are influencing workforce, household and community relations, which in turn drive health and well-being outcomes, and affect social capital and labour market participatio…
Critical Geographies of Peace
Politics of citizenship: Experiencing state–society relations from the margins
This introduction discusses the articles in this Special Issue, which are all focused on exploring the everyday interactions between marginalised individuals and groups and the state in contemporary India. In particular the articles highlight the experiences of a diverse set of marginalised groups – Muslim artisans and weavers, Dalits, Tibetan exiles and post-conflict victims in Gujarat – in order to work towards an understanding of the politics …
An absent presence: Experiences of the ‘welfare state’ in an Indian Muslimmohallā
This paper examines the everyday experiences and perspectives of Muslim Ansāris (weavers) in urban north India with respect to the 'welfare state'. The case of a recent health insurance scheme, initiated by the Indian government, constitutes the paper's focus. Narratives around the scheme expressed by residents in a majority Muslim mohallā (neighbourhood) in Varanasi illustrate the ways in which the state's presence was more often experienced thr…
Marginality, Agency and Power: Experiencing the State in Contemporary India
India's Muslims, lived secularism and realising citizenship
This article examines the dissonance between Indian secularism in theory and secularism in practice for India's largest religious minority of Muslims. Marginalised and discriminated against in everyday life, India's Muslims are frequently constructed simply as victims without recourse to agency. This article challenges this narrative by documenting how Muslims living in Varanasi in North India actively sought to realise their citizenship and a se…
Reproducing Everyday Peace in North India: Process, Politics, and Power
Matters of war and violence continue to prove seductive foci for geographical analysis, whereas the concept of peace has remained undertheorized, more often constructed in negative terms as the absence of violence. This article responds to calls within the academy and beyond for a more critical look at the geographies of peace, through an examination of everyday peace between “Hindu traders” and “Muslim weavers” in urban north India. Building on …
Mothers' integration of work, home and community in master planned communities: What's Different
Work/life research needs to incorporate consideration of community issues and is rarely conducted in master planned communities (MPCs). To address this gap the present exploratory study aimed to examine the specific work/life integration (WLI) experiences of working mothers residing in an Australian MPC. Fifteen interviews were conducted with 10 working mothers. Data analysis involved thematic coding of interview transcripts. Findings showed that…
Geographies of Peace
From handshakes on the White House lawn to Picasso’s iconic dove of peace, the images and stereotypes of peace are powerful, widespread and easily recognizable. Yet if we try to offer a concise definition of peace it is altogether a more complicated exercise. Not only is peace an emotive and value-laden concept, it is also abstract, ambiguous and seemingly inextricably tied to its antithesis: war. And it is war and violence that have been so comp…
Everyday Peace: Politics, Citizenship and Muslim Lives in India
Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAGProviding important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday peace in northern India as it is experienced by the Hindu-Muslim community. Challenges normative understandings of Hindu-Muslim relations as relentlessly violent and the notion of peace as a romantic endpoint…
Moral Geography
Moral geography concerns the relationship between morality, space, and power within both the material and the symbolic dimensions of life. The “moral turn” within geography was prompted by the intellectual shift to question the appearance of truth and objectivity and the emergence of new questions about development, justice and difference, distance, care, and responsibility and how moral value is linked to landscape and people. Approaches to norm…
Working at the margins? Muslim middle class professionals in India and the limits of 'labour agency
This paper explores the work-lives of middle class Muslim professionals in India's new service economy. While these workers have successfully negotiated labour market entry into the 'core' growth sectors of India's globalising economy, they are simultaneously subject to different forms of social, cultural and political marginalisation. Strikingly, they also remain at the margins of both economic geography and development geography scholarship. Th…
Emigration state encounters: The everyday material life of a diaspora technology
No Room for Dissent: Domesticating WhatsApp, Digital Private Spaces, and Lived Democracy in India
WhatsApp and digital private spaces are transforming the quality of lived democracy in India today. Bringing together STS, geographies of democracy, digital and political anthropology, and feminist approaches to the home, this paper makes visible how the Silicon Valley imaginary of the “digital living room” is domesticated in India. Drawing on digital ethnographic research in urban north India we show how WhatsApp is being used by the Hindu right…
Grassroots authoritarianism: WhatsApp, middle-class boundary-making and pandemic governance in New Delhi’s neighbourhoods
Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper documents how ordinary digital technologies, such as WhatsApp, were (re)appropriated for communication and pandemic coordination at a time when face-to-face meetings were impossible. However, there was also an emergent 'dark' side to its use. In the context of India's democratic backsliding, middle-class Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) deployed everyday technologies to (re)configure e…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (20 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works)