Samita Sen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samita Sen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samita |
| FAMILY NAME | Sen |
| SIGNATURE | SEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7861-610X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sustainable consumption behaviour among guests in luxury hotels through the lens of the extended theory of planned behaviour
This study aims to analyse the determinants of sustainable consumption behaviour (SCB) of guests in luxury hotels by extending the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). This study adopted a quantitative cross-sectional approach to analyse the determinants of guests’ SCB. Data for the study were collected between November 2021 to January 2022 from 298 respondents using Google Forms. The result indicates that the SCB of guests at luxury hotels is pred…
The Making and Remaking of Australasia: Mobility, Texts and ‘Southern Circulations’
This book explores the emergence of ‘Australasia’ as a way of thinking about the culture and geography of this region. Although it is frequently understood to apply only to Australia and New Zealand, the concept has a longer and more complicated history. ‘Australasia’ emerged in the mid-18th century in both French and British writing as European empires extended their reach into Asia and the Pacific, and initially held strong links to the Asian c…
Full Rights” Feminists in South Asia: Freedom, Equality, and Justice
Histories of feminism in the past three decades have focused on the debate between equal rights and separate spheres, but have been less attentive to the many strands of socialist feminisms, which sought to build bridges between the women's movement and other social movements for freedom, equality and justice. Dorothy Sue Cobble addresses this gap, exploring the lives and works of social democratic women activists in relation to the equal rights …
Introduction: Regulation and Domestic Service in Colonial Histories
This essay introduces the Special Theme on regulation and domestic service in colonial societies. It provides a brief overview of the key themes of domestic service and regulation in the history of colonial states, and reflects upon the ways in which the colonial past is deployed in contemporary calls for the regulation of domestic work by the state, to secure the rights and protections of present-day workers as modern, free subjects. We note tha…
Gender and the Politics of Class: Women in Trade Unions in Bengal
The essay examines women’s political participation at the intersection of the labour, nationalist and women’s movements in Bengal. The focus is on women labour activists from the 1920s to the 1970s, mostly from the middle classes but also drawing on the example of two working-class women leaders. Scholarship on the subject has so far either deplored women’s marginality in labour movements or celebrated their participation. Moving beyond such dich…
‘Capital’ in the East: Reflections on Marx
The Problem of Reproduction: Waged and Unwaged Domestic Work
Accumulation in Post-Colonial Capitalism
Abolishing English in schools: Implications for higher education in West Bengal
In 1982, the then ruling Left Front government in West Bengal (India) abolished the teaching of English from its primary schools. The move led to a high-pitched controversy over the social importance of teaching English, and when and how it should be taught. The main arguments in favour of the decision were to confront the elitism inherent in giving primacy to a “foreign” language and to promote higher enrolment and reduce drop-out rates. Those o…
Books: Review Forum on postwar British literature and postcolonial studies
Commercial recruiting and Informal Intermediation: Debate over the sardari system in Assam tea plantations, 1860-1900
This paper engages with Rajnarayan Chandavarkar's argument that the importance accorded to the intermediation of sardars/jobbers in colonial labour arrangements followed from the perception of the Indian peasant as static and immobile, requiring especial effort at recruitment, but that, over time, employers grew resentful of the power and control acquired by these intermediaries. Drawing on this insight, the paper examines the role ofsardarsin th…
Gender and Class: Women in Indian Industry, 1890-1990
In India, investigations into patterns of industrialisation and the formation of industrial labour began during the colonial period, soon after the inception of modern industry in the mid-nineteenth century. After Independence in 1947, the development of a 'working class' became the primary focus of enquiry into conditions of industrial labour
Without His Consent: Marriage and Women's Migration in Colonial India
An examination of the diverse patterns of women's migration challenges abiding stereotypes of Indian history: the urban worker as a male “peasant-proletariat” and women as inhabiting a timeless rural past. When men opted for circulation between town and country, wives and children undertook the actual labor of cultivation for the survival of “peasant-proletariat” households. Men retained their status as heads of the family and, even though absent…
Questions of Consent: Women's Recruitment for Assam Tea Gardens, 1859–1900
Beyond the ‘working class'; women's role in Indian industrialisation
At the margins: Women workers in the Bengal jute industry
This paper seeks to raise questions about Indian women's low participation in modern factory industries on the basis of an examination of the case of the jute industry in Bengal. The focus of the paper is on the colonial period, but some of the patterns evolved in that period are shown to be highly resilient or to have been reinforced in the period after Independence. The colonial state, it is argued, helped to achieve and foster a particular acc…
“Peripheral” Labour? Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization: Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization
This volume takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers'. The contributors suggest that the idea of a 'pure' working class should be reconsidered and examine specific South Asian and Latin American case studies. A large part of the working class in the so-called third world and also in the main capitalist countries is either free (but coerced through non-economic means) or does hidden work labor e.g. as formally self-employed produce…
Gendered Exclusion: Domesticity and Dependence in Bengal
In Western Europe, industrialization brought far-reaching changes in the family-household system by separating the household from the workplace. Factories, especially, took work away from home and eroded the integrity of the household. The spatial separation between the household and the workplace became the foundation for a conceptual separation between the community and the market. Families were separated from trades, consumption from productio…
Unsettling the Household: Act VI (of 1901) and the Regulation of Women Migrants in Colonial Bengal
The advent of capitalism has traditionally been associated with a transformation of the economic and political functioning of the family. Capital is presumed to weaken, certainly to modify, gender and age hierarchies by undermining the productive role of the household. The labour market takes over the organization of work and age of consent legislations undermine parental authority in order to create the new legal subject capable of entering “fre…
Motherhood and Mothercraft: Gender and Nationalism in Bengal
Gender and Class: Women in Indian Industry, 1890-1990
In India, investigations into patterns of industrialisation and the formation of industrial labour began during the colonial period, soon after the inception of modern industry in the mid-nineteenth century. After Independence in 1947, the development of a 'working class' became the primary focus of enquiry into conditions of industrial labour
Commercial recruiting and Informal Intermediation: Debate over the sardari system in Assam tea plantations, 1860-1900
This paper engages with Rajnarayan Chandavarkar's argument that the importance accorded to the intermediation of sardars/jobbers in colonial labour arrangements followed from the perception of the Indian peasant as static and immobile, requiring especial effort at recruitment, but that, over time, employers grew resentful of the power and control acquired by these intermediaries. Drawing on this insight, the paper examines the role ofsardarsin th…
Without His Consent: Marriage and Women's Migration in Colonial India
An examination of the diverse patterns of women's migration challenges abiding stereotypes of Indian history: the urban worker as a male “peasant-proletariat” and women as inhabiting a timeless rural past. When men opted for circulation between town and country, wives and children undertook the actual labor of cultivation for the survival of “peasant-proletariat” households. Men retained their status as heads of the family and, even though absent…
Motherhood and Mothercraft: Gender and Nationalism in Bengal
Gendered Exclusion: Domesticity and Dependence in Bengal
In Western Europe, industrialization brought far-reaching changes in the family-household system by separating the household from the workplace. Factories, especially, took work away from home and eroded the integrity of the household. The spatial separation between the household and the workplace became the foundation for a conceptual separation between the community and the market. Families were separated from trades, consumption from productio…
Questions of Consent: Women's Recruitment for Assam Tea Gardens, 1859–1900
Beyond the ‘working class'; women's role in Indian industrialisation
Unsettling the Household: Act VI (of 1901) and the Regulation of Women Migrants in Colonial Bengal
The advent of capitalism has traditionally been associated with a transformation of the economic and political functioning of the family. Capital is presumed to weaken, certainly to modify, gender and age hierarchies by undermining the productive role of the household. The labour market takes over the organization of work and age of consent legislations undermine parental authority in order to create the new legal subject capable of entering “fre…
At the margins: Women workers in the Bengal jute industry
This paper seeks to raise questions about Indian women's low participation in modern factory industries on the basis of an examination of the case of the jute industry in Bengal. The focus of the paper is on the colonial period, but some of the patterns evolved in that period are shown to be highly resilient or to have been reinforced in the period after Independence. The colonial state, it is argued, helped to achieve and foster a particular acc…
Introduction: Regulation and Domestic Service in Colonial Histories
This essay introduces the Special Theme on regulation and domestic service in colonial societies. It provides a brief overview of the key themes of domestic service and regulation in the history of colonial states, and reflects upon the ways in which the colonial past is deployed in contemporary calls for the regulation of domestic work by the state, to secure the rights and protections of present-day workers as modern, free subjects. We note tha…
Abolishing English in schools: Implications for higher education in West Bengal
In 1982, the then ruling Left Front government in West Bengal (India) abolished the teaching of English from its primary schools. The move led to a high-pitched controversy over the social importance of teaching English, and when and how it should be taught. The main arguments in favour of the decision were to confront the elitism inherent in giving primacy to a “foreign” language and to promote higher enrolment and reduce drop-out rates. Those o…
Motherhood and Mothercraft: Gender and Nationalism in Bengal
Unsettling the Household: Act VI (of 1901) and the Regulation of Women Migrants in Colonial Bengal
The advent of capitalism has traditionally been associated with a transformation of the economic and political functioning of the family. Capital is presumed to weaken, certainly to modify, gender and age hierarchies by undermining the productive role of the household. The labour market takes over the organization of work and age of consent legislations undermine parental authority in order to create the new legal subject capable of entering “fre…
“Peripheral” Labour? Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization: Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization
This volume takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers'. The contributors suggest that the idea of a 'pure' working class should be reconsidered and examine specific South Asian and Latin American case studies. A large part of the working class in the so-called third world and also in the main capitalist countries is either free (but coerced through non-economic means) or does hidden work labor e.g. as formally self-employed produce…
Gendered Exclusion: Domesticity and Dependence in Bengal
In Western Europe, industrialization brought far-reaching changes in the family-household system by separating the household from the workplace. Factories, especially, took work away from home and eroded the integrity of the household. The spatial separation between the household and the workplace became the foundation for a conceptual separation between the community and the market. Families were separated from trades, consumption from productio…
Beyond the ‘working class'; women's role in Indian industrialisation
At the margins: Women workers in the Bengal jute industry
This paper seeks to raise questions about Indian women's low participation in modern factory industries on the basis of an examination of the case of the jute industry in Bengal. The focus of the paper is on the colonial period, but some of the patterns evolved in that period are shown to be highly resilient or to have been reinforced in the period after Independence. The colonial state, it is argued, helped to achieve and foster a particular acc…
Questions of Consent: Women's Recruitment for Assam Tea Gardens, 1859–1900
Without His Consent: Marriage and Women's Migration in Colonial India
An examination of the diverse patterns of women's migration challenges abiding stereotypes of Indian history: the urban worker as a male “peasant-proletariat” and women as inhabiting a timeless rural past. When men opted for circulation between town and country, wives and children undertook the actual labor of cultivation for the survival of “peasant-proletariat” households. Men retained their status as heads of the family and, even though absent…
Gender and Class: Women in Indian Industry, 1890-1990
In India, investigations into patterns of industrialisation and the formation of industrial labour began during the colonial period, soon after the inception of modern industry in the mid-nineteenth century. After Independence in 1947, the development of a 'working class' became the primary focus of enquiry into conditions of industrial labour
Commercial recruiting and Informal Intermediation: Debate over the sardari system in Assam tea plantations, 1860-1900
This paper engages with Rajnarayan Chandavarkar's argument that the importance accorded to the intermediation of sardars/jobbers in colonial labour arrangements followed from the perception of the Indian peasant as static and immobile, requiring especial effort at recruitment, but that, over time, employers grew resentful of the power and control acquired by these intermediaries. Drawing on this insight, the paper examines the role ofsardarsin th…
Books: Review Forum on postwar British literature and postcolonial studies
Abolishing English in schools: Implications for higher education in West Bengal
In 1982, the then ruling Left Front government in West Bengal (India) abolished the teaching of English from its primary schools. The move led to a high-pitched controversy over the social importance of teaching English, and when and how it should be taught. The main arguments in favour of the decision were to confront the elitism inherent in giving primacy to a “foreign” language and to promote higher enrolment and reduce drop-out rates. Those o…
Accumulation in Post-Colonial Capitalism
‘Capital’ in the East: Reflections on Marx
The Problem of Reproduction: Waged and Unwaged Domestic Work
Gender and the Politics of Class: Women in Trade Unions in Bengal
The essay examines women’s political participation at the intersection of the labour, nationalist and women’s movements in Bengal. The focus is on women labour activists from the 1920s to the 1970s, mostly from the middle classes but also drawing on the example of two working-class women leaders. Scholarship on the subject has so far either deplored women’s marginality in labour movements or celebrated their participation. Moving beyond such dich…
The Making and Remaking of Australasia: Mobility, Texts and ‘Southern Circulations’
This book explores the emergence of ‘Australasia’ as a way of thinking about the culture and geography of this region. Although it is frequently understood to apply only to Australia and New Zealand, the concept has a longer and more complicated history. ‘Australasia’ emerged in the mid-18th century in both French and British writing as European empires extended their reach into Asia and the Pacific, and initially held strong links to the Asian c…
Full Rights” Feminists in South Asia: Freedom, Equality, and Justice
Histories of feminism in the past three decades have focused on the debate between equal rights and separate spheres, but have been less attentive to the many strands of socialist feminisms, which sought to build bridges between the women's movement and other social movements for freedom, equality and justice. Dorothy Sue Cobble addresses this gap, exploring the lives and works of social democratic women activists in relation to the equal rights …
Introduction: Regulation and Domestic Service in Colonial Histories
This essay introduces the Special Theme on regulation and domestic service in colonial societies. It provides a brief overview of the key themes of domestic service and regulation in the history of colonial states, and reflects upon the ways in which the colonial past is deployed in contemporary calls for the regulation of domestic work by the state, to secure the rights and protections of present-day workers as modern, free subjects. We note tha…
Sustainable consumption behaviour among guests in luxury hotels through the lens of the extended theory of planned behaviour
This study aims to analyse the determinants of sustainable consumption behaviour (SCB) of guests in luxury hotels by extending the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). This study adopted a quantitative cross-sectional approach to analyse the determinants of guests’ SCB. Data for the study were collected between November 2021 to January 2022 from 298 respondents using Google Forms. The result indicates that the SCB of guests at luxury hotels is pred…
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