J Parry

Datos Biográficos

ID56013
NOMBREJ Parry
NOMBRESJ
APELLIDOParry
FIRMAPARRY J
AFILIACIONESLondon School of Economics and Political Science
ORCID0000-0002-2649-9220
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS81
TOTAL DE CITAS962
TOTAL COMO AUTOR81
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1964
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H15

  • Why Paternalism Is Wrong (When It Is Wrong)

    Open AccessJ ParryARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2026

    This paper proposes a novel reinterpretation of the familiar, if inchoate, thought that paternalism offends against an ideal of personal sovereignty. The central idea is that (competent) persons have a particular kind of normative power. Just as each of us has the right to control how others are permitted to use our bodies or property, we each have a structurally similar right to control how others are permitted to use our good . When others seek…

  • Disraeli’s Late Novels and Tory Political Sociology

    Open AccessJ ParryARTICLECahiers victoriens et édouardiens2025

    This essay examines Disraeli’s last two published novels, Lothair (1870) and Endymion (1880), as works of political sociology. The mature Disraeli was fascinated by generalisation and social analysis. He naturally viewed the world in terms of dialectic. He assessed contemporary problems as a series of tensions between opposing forces. The task of the politician was to try to resolve them and to minimise social conflict. However, in Tancred (1847)…

  • The Third Earl Grey, Liberalism, and the British Empire

    Open AccessJ ParryARTICLEModern Intellectual History2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 8

    This article suggests that Henry, third Earl Grey, had a vision of a liberal British world, which he hoped to implement through a political career. It was based on strong executive governance, representative politics, and the abolition of protection and slavery. It relied on the free market and good race relations to bring progress. He rejected the idea that legislation could impose improvement on colonial peoples. His program was quickly deraile…

  • Book Forum on Labor Skills and Migration in India

    Open AccessRina Agarwala, Pallavi Banerjee et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2024

  • Filling the Ranks

    Open AccessJ Parry, Christina EastonARTICLEAmerican Political Science Review2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 42

    If states are permitted to create and maintain a military force, by what means are they permitted to do so? This article argues that a theory of just recruitment should incorporate a concern for moral risk. Since the military is a morally risky profession for its members, recruitment policies should be evaluated in terms of how they distribute moral risk within a community. We show how common military recruitment practices exacerbate and concentr…

  • How Much Does Material Determination Explain in Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans

    Open AccessJ ParryARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2024

    Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans is a substantial ethnography of Muslim artisan woodworkers in the northern Indian city of Saharanpur that admirably evokes the "human actuality" of their working worlds.Of Saharanpur's population (nearly one million), 45% are Muslims; those of its woodworking mohallas (neighborhoods) almost exclusively so.They specialize in carving.Thomas Chambers focuses on their workshops and factories…

  • Parry response to Dialectical Anthropology forum on Classes of Labour

    Open AccessJ ParryARTICLEDialectical Anthropology2023Referencias: 9

    The paragraphs that follow respond to some of the criticisms and comments that the contributors to this forum have made on my book. Many of these revolve around the central issue of social class and around my analysis of the manual blue-collar workforce of the central Indian steel town of Bhilai as sharply divided between two ‘classes of labour’ with separate and sometimes antagonistic interests. Some earlier commentaries on this argument had bee…

  • Promised Lands

    J ParryBOOKPromised Lands2022

  • Promised Lands

    J ParryBOOKPromised Lands2022

  • Conclusion

    Open AccessJ ParryCHAPTERPromised Lands2022

    This chapter highlights that India was Britain's most important imperial possession from the 1780s. It emphasizes that the protection of the lands and waterways of the Middle East from the European rivals became a major British project in the first half of the nineteenth century. The chapter then assesses how naval power was used to secure Britain's position and build up influence with local chiefs, and Arab leaders in particular. It looks at wha…

  • Striving for Leverage in Baghdad

    Open AccessJ ParryCHAPTERPromised Lands2022

    This chapter focuses on the main eastern Ottoman province: the pashalik of Baghdad. Its capital city was the centre of road and river communications to the Persian Gulf, Persia, Syria, and Kurdistan, and a great Asian commercial mart. The chapter argues that no Ottoman town east of the Levant could match Baghdad's strategic, political, and economic importance. The chapter also assesses how British officials in Bombay valued the Gulf for its exten…

  • Nobody's People

    Open AccessJ ParryARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2022Citada por: 6

  • Response to Jan Breman's Review Essay on Classes of Labour

    Open AccessJ ParryARTICLEGlobal Labour Journal2021

  • Classes of Labour

    J Parry, T G AjayBOOKClasses of Labour2020

    Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor Jonathan Parry looks at a context in which the man…

  • Sparing Civilians

    J ParryARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2020Referencias: 1

    Many works in applied moral and political philosophy start from an intuitive underlying moral principle and then argue that it leads to radical implications for our norms and practices. (For example, that a commitment to equality entails that we should abolish immigration restrictions, or confiscate one another's organs, or refuse to read our children bedtime stories.) Seth Lazar's Sparing Civilians works in the other direction. It aims to provid…

  • Parliament the Mirror of the Nation

    Open AccessJ Parry, J P ParryARTICLEThe English Historical Review2020

    Gregory Conti’s contribution to the Ideas in Context series is a penetrating investigation of a major theme of Victorian constitutional discussion: the question of how, and how far, Parliament should mirror the social composition of the nation—what he calls ‘descriptive representation’. He starts from an apparent paradox: nowadays we measure the quality of democracy largely in terms of its perceived ability to reflect the full range of social gro…

  • Wrongful Observation

    Open AccessHelen Frowe, J ParryARTICLEPhilosophy & Public Affairs2019Citada por: 2Referencias: 1

    According to common-sense morality, agents can become morally connected to the wrongdoing of others, such that they are rendered liable to bear costs to prevent or rectify the wrongs committed by the primary wrongdoer.Various possible grounds of this connection have been proposed, such as causally contributing to another's wrongdoing 1 , sharing particular kinds of intentions with the primary wrongdoer 2 , and shared membership in certain types o…

  • Shooting to kill

    J ParryARTICLEPolicing & Society2018Referencias: 2

    Over the last two decades, the ethics of defensive harm has become a leading area in applied philosophy. Much of the debate has focussed on the relationship between individual self-defence and the

  • Introduction

    Open AccessChristopher J Finlay, J Parry et al.ARTICLEEthics & International Affairs2017

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  • Legitimate Authority and the Ethics of War

    Open AccessJ ParryARTICLEEthics & International Affairs2017Citada por: 3Referencias: 5

    Despite a recent explosion of interest in the ethics of armed conflict, the traditional just war criterion that war be waged by a “legitimate authority” has received relatively little attention. Moreover, of those theorists who have addressed the criterion, many are deeply skeptical about its moral significance. This article aims to add some clarity and precision to the authority criterion and the debates surrounding it, and to suggest that this …

  • And the Rule of Wealth

    Open AccessJ ParryARTICLEParliamentary History2017

    This essay examines the widespread concern in the 1860s and 1870s with ‘plutocracy’ – the political and social power of commercial wealth. It argues that we should not interpret either the pressure for parliamentary reform in the 1860s, or the consequences of the 1867 act, simply in terms of a contest between aristocracy and democracy. A third element, the growing influence of commercial men, was very widely noted before and after 1867, with diff…

  • Defensive Harm, Consent, and Intervention

    Open AccessJ ParryARTICLEPhilosophy & Public Affairs2017Citada por: 10

    Many think that it would be wrong to defend an individual from attack if he competently and explicitly refuses defensive intervention.In this paper, I consider the extent to which the preferences of victims affect the permissibility of defending groups or aggregates.These cases are interesting and difficult because there is no straightforward sense in which a group can univocally consent to or refuse defensive intervention in the same way that an…

  • The Indian Gift

    Andrew Sanchez, James G Carrier et al.ARTICLEHistory and Anthropology2017Citada por: 9Referencias: 69

    IntroductionIn 1986 Jonathan Parry's 'The Gift, the Indian Gift and the "Indian Gift"' claimed to overturn conventional understandings of Marcel Mauss, by arguing that market societies most idealize the distinction between gifts and commodities, and gift giving need not entail reciprocity. Based on an analysis of Hindu religious gifts, Parry proposed a broad framework for understanding how ideologies of exchange function in different economic and…

  • The anthropologist's assistant (or the assistant's anthropologist)

    Open AccessJ ParryARTICLEFocaal2015Citada por: 4

    This piece tells the story of a disturbing episode in the author's relationship with the field. Though the details are unique, the kind of ethical dilemmas it documents must be in some form or other part of the experience of a great many anthropologists - though such stories are seldom set down in print. These dilemmas include the balance we strike between participation and observation, and between the moral commitments we have as private individ…

  • Death in Banaras

    J Parry

    Introduction Part I. Death and the City: 1. Through 'divine eyes' 2. A profane perspective Part II. Death as a Living: 3. Shares and chicanery 4. Giving, receiving and bargaining over gifts Part III. Death into Birth: 5. The last sacrifice 6. Ghosts into ancestors 7. Spirit possession as 'superstition' Part IV. The End of Death: 8. Asceticism and the conquest of death.