Sanjeev Routray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanjeev Routray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanjeev |
| FAMILY NAME | Routray |
| SIGNATURE | ROUTRAY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Brunei Darussalam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0669-6008 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Who is a construction worker? Bureaucratic arbitrariness, entrepreneurial unions and performances of eligibility in Delhi
The everyday politics of negotiations required to register oneself as a construction worker with labour boards remains critical to obtaining the eligible entitlements in Delhi. How is verification carried out and eligibility established? How are mistakes redressed in the workers’ identity cards? How are claims authenticated? The negotiations straddle the complex worlds of labour board office members, entrepreneurial unions (which demand a percent…
Articulations
This paper examines the articulation of capitalist relations with caste, ethnic, gender, and spatial relations in context-specific ways, which not only produce a structure of domination but also “minor liberations” in an industrial neighborhood in Delhi. The articulation of capitalist relations with these relations overdetermines two specific dynamics: (1) skilling, deskilling, and reskilling, and (2) social reproduction. By drawing on Stuart Hal…
Fieldwork encounters
The paper examines the methodological challenges of conducting ethnographic research in complex research settings underpinned by social inequalities and power relations. It analyses how the quests for validity and mutuality were undermined by recurrent doubts that saturated relationships with my interlocutors—displaced communities and individuals occupying positions of power in Delhi. By examining authorial voices and silences, as well as the pre…
Paper struggles
The paper analyses how documents, particularly ration cards and voter IDs, mediate and constitute urban citizenship claims, especially on the part of the poor to gain access to welfare services in Delhi. It examines how citizenship is claimed, negotiated, performed, and realized through various documentary, inscriptive, and enumeration counter-tactics. Enumeration counter-tactics include letter-writing, office visits, self-surveys, the solicitati…
The Right to Be Counted
Timepass’ and ‘setting’
The engagement of people in extremely low-wage work in major cities of the Global South and their withdrawal from labour-organising activities arise from several factors. Among these is the hegemonic meaning construction of work as ‘timepass’ or leisure and as an opportunity for sociality and neighbourliness that is central to the social reproduction of everyday life. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Delhi, this article examines how work regi…
The Postcolonial City and its Displaced Poor
Partha Chatterjee has produced a compelling analysis of political modernity in India. This article evaluates the significance of his conceptualization of 'political society' for understanding political practices in Delhi by looking at three issues: the relevance of proof of identification documents and various enumeration-related practices for proving citizenship; a court case concerning the resettlement of a particular population in Delhi; and t…
The Postcolonial City and its Displaced Poor
Partha Chatterjee has produced a compelling analysis of political modernity in India. This article evaluates the significance of his conceptualization of 'political society' for understanding political practices in Delhi by looking at three issues: the relevance of proof of identification documents and various enumeration-related practices for proving citizenship; a court case concerning the resettlement of a particular population in Delhi; and t…
Timepass’ and ‘setting’
The engagement of people in extremely low-wage work in major cities of the Global South and their withdrawal from labour-organising activities arise from several factors. Among these is the hegemonic meaning construction of work as ‘timepass’ or leisure and as an opportunity for sociality and neighbourliness that is central to the social reproduction of everyday life. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Delhi, this article examines how work regi…
Paper struggles
The paper analyses how documents, particularly ration cards and voter IDs, mediate and constitute urban citizenship claims, especially on the part of the poor to gain access to welfare services in Delhi. It examines how citizenship is claimed, negotiated, performed, and realized through various documentary, inscriptive, and enumeration counter-tactics. Enumeration counter-tactics include letter-writing, office visits, self-surveys, the solicitati…
The Postcolonial City and its Displaced Poor
Partha Chatterjee has produced a compelling analysis of political modernity in India. This article evaluates the significance of his conceptualization of 'political society' for understanding political practices in Delhi by looking at three issues: the relevance of proof of identification documents and various enumeration-related practices for proving citizenship; a court case concerning the resettlement of a particular population in Delhi; and t…
The Right to Be Counted
Timepass’ and ‘setting’
The engagement of people in extremely low-wage work in major cities of the Global South and their withdrawal from labour-organising activities arise from several factors. Among these is the hegemonic meaning construction of work as ‘timepass’ or leisure and as an opportunity for sociality and neighbourliness that is central to the social reproduction of everyday life. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Delhi, this article examines how work regi…
Paper struggles
The paper analyses how documents, particularly ration cards and voter IDs, mediate and constitute urban citizenship claims, especially on the part of the poor to gain access to welfare services in Delhi. It examines how citizenship is claimed, negotiated, performed, and realized through various documentary, inscriptive, and enumeration counter-tactics. Enumeration counter-tactics include letter-writing, office visits, self-surveys, the solicitati…
Who is a construction worker? Bureaucratic arbitrariness, entrepreneurial unions and performances of eligibility in Delhi
The everyday politics of negotiations required to register oneself as a construction worker with labour boards remains critical to obtaining the eligible entitlements in Delhi. How is verification carried out and eligibility established? How are mistakes redressed in the workers’ identity cards? How are claims authenticated? The negotiations straddle the complex worlds of labour board office members, entrepreneurial unions (which demand a percent…
Articulations
This paper examines the articulation of capitalist relations with caste, ethnic, gender, and spatial relations in context-specific ways, which not only produce a structure of domination but also “minor liberations” in an industrial neighborhood in Delhi. The articulation of capitalist relations with these relations overdetermines two specific dynamics: (1) skilling, deskilling, and reskilling, and (2) social reproduction. By drawing on Stuart Hal…
Fieldwork encounters
The paper examines the methodological challenges of conducting ethnographic research in complex research settings underpinned by social inequalities and power relations. It analyses how the quests for validity and mutuality were undermined by recurrent doubts that saturated relationships with my interlocutors—displaced communities and individuals occupying positions of power in Delhi. By examining authorial voices and silences, as well as the pre…
Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Negotiation (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Bureaucracy (2 works)