G De Neve
Biographic Data
| ID | 56046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G De Neve |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | De Neve |
| SIGNATURE | DE NEVE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8874-4749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 501 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Informal, individual and cumulative labour agency: Reconceptualising capital's socio-spatial fix in the south Indian garment industry
This paper reconceptualises labour agency by examining the cumulative impact of informal and individual worker agency on capital’s search for a social-spatial fix in the Tiruppur garment industry in Tamil Nadu, India. The study foregrounds everyday micro-acts—such as choosing, refusing, and exiting work—as significant forms of agency, especially when viewed in aggregate. Based on ethnographic research, we explore how these acts influence the soci…
Skills, training and development: An introduction to the social life of skills in the global South
‘Skills’ and ‘skill development’ feature evermore prominently in international development discourse and in the policies of governments across the global South. Yet, these discourses and policies often proceed with a weak conception of the social circumstances and everyday processes by which skills are acquired, disseminated, and used. This tends to result in approaches to skill development that are simultaneously unrealistic, in the sense that t…
Training for employment or skilling up from employment? Jobs and skills acquisition in the Tiruppur textile region, India
This paper explores how skills for garment work are acquired in the rural hinterland of Tiruppur, one of India’s largest garment manufacturing clusters. Drawing on a quantitative survey and qualitative interviews with garment workers in Tiruppur’s hinterland, we document the informal pathways of skill acquisition for garment work and advocate a demand-driven approach to vocational training. Such an approach, first, unsettles linear policy assumpt…
Dimensions of wellbeing and recognitional justice of migrant workers during the Covid-19 lockdown in Kerala, India
The lockdown of March 2020 in India witnessed one of the largest movements of migrants in the country. The state of Kerala was quick and efficient in responding to the challenges posed by the lockdown on its migrant population and in supporting its ‘guest workers’. While many studies have researched the material resources of migrants during the pandemic, such as income and food, few have investigated the subjective measures and emphasised the liv…
Classes of Labour in comparative perspective
India’s Gig Economy Workers at the Time of Covid-19: An Introduction
The Collective Working Body: Rethinking Apparel Workers' Health and Well-being during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Sri Lanka
This article contributes to debates on global apparel workers’ health and well-being through an examination of how Sri Lankan workers were affected and treated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on qualitative interviews in and around the Katunayake Export Processing Zone, the article takes the Sri Lankan apparel industry as a case study. It reconceptualises the “precarious working body” as a “collective body” in order to demonstrate how workers…
Transparency, exclusion and mediation: How digital and biometric technologies are transforming social protection in Tamil Nadu, India
What are the effects of biometric and digital technologies on social protection for the poor in India? Drawing on ethnographic research from rural Tamil Nadu, this paper presents evidence of how new technologies are experienced by beneficiaries of the Public Distribution System (PDS), and analyses the impacts of technology innovations on transparency, exclusion and mediation. The authors focus on the implementation of ‘smartcards,’ new digitised …
Good debts, bad debts: Microcredit and managing debt in rural south India
This paper engages with debates around microcredit, once a development success story, but now much critiqued. Arguing that microcredit can only be understood within the wider context of debt, we draw on ethnographic material from two villages in Tamil Nadu, to examine how microcredit through self‐help groups sits within a broader context of indebtedness among the rural labouring classes. We describe patterns and sources of borrowing among the poo…
Paperwork, patronage, and citizenship: The materiality of everyday interactions with bureaucracy in Tamil Nadu, India
This article explores the material practices through which lower-caste and poor villagers engage with bureaucracy in contemporary India. We take documents and paperwork - such as ration cards and community certificates - as a 'lens' through which to explore how paper materiality is infused with the politics of power, patronage, and identity. The article brings ethnography from rural Tamil Nadu, South India, in conversation with two bodies of lite…
Waiting for the state: Gender, citizenship and everyday encounters with bureaucracy in India
This article focuses on practices and meanings of time and waiting experienced by poor, low-class Dalits and Muslims in their routine encounters with the state in India. Drawing on ethnographic research from Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh, it presents experiences of waiting around queuing and applying for paperwork, cards, and welfare schemes, in order to examine the role of temporal processes in the production of citizenship and citizen agency. An…
Health and safety in garment workers’ lives: Setting a new research agenda
Hidden Reflexivity: Assistants, Informants and the Creation of Anthropological Knowledge
This chapter discusses how the anthropologist's own reflexivity is closely connected to, and shaped by, the reflexivity of those who belong to the society observed, including that of the famous yet rarely discussed assistant. It suggests that the sort of reflexivity that might be most revealing in relation to how anthropological knowledge is constructed is that which focuses on what takes place in 'the field' as an intersubjective practice. The c…
The Economies of Love: Love marriage, kin support, and aspiration in a South Indian garment city
The article considers narratives and experiences of love marriage in the garment city of Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu, South India. As a booming centre of garment production, Tiruppur attracts a diverse migrant workforce of young men and women who have plenty of opportunity to fall in love and enter marriages of their own making. Based on long-term ethnographic research, the article explores what love marriages mean to those involved, how they are expe…
Predatory Property: Urban Land Acquisition, Housing and Class Formation in Tiruppur, South India
While liberalization policies have unleashed unprecedented opportunities for accumulation and wealth extraction in India, the urban social consequences of post-reform economic restructuring have been poorly documented to date. Based on ethnographic research carried out in the city of Tiruppur in South India, this article describes the processes of land acquisition and politics of housing that shape the contemporary dynamics of urban restructuring…
Revisiting Urban Property in India
Litigation against Political Organization? The Politics of Dalit Mobilization in Tamil Nadu, India
This article examines contemporary Dalit assertion in India through an ethnographic case study of a legal tool being mobilized by Tamil Nadu's lowest-ranking Arunthathiyars in their struggle against caste-based offences. The Arunthathiyars of western Tamil Nadu are increasingly taking recourse to the 1989 Prevention of Atrocities Act (PoA Act) in an attempt to bring members of higher castes to justice. The article explores how Arunthathiyars are …
Why Indians Vote: Reflections on Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy from a Tamil Nadu Village
This paper contributes to an empirical and theoretical understanding of democracy and political participation in India through an ethnographic study of the meanings attached to voting in rural Tamil Nadu. Based on a study of voting in a rural constituency during the 2009 national elections, the paper explores the variety of motivations that compel people to vote. It explores how voting is informed by popular understandings of rights and duties as…
T-shirts and tumblers: Caste, dependency and work under neoliberalisation in south India
This article explores the variegated nature of processes of neoliberalisation and their diverse impacts on relations of caste and dependency in rural India. Focusing on the rural hinterland of Tiruppur, a major industrial cluster in Tamil Nadu, south India, the article examines the ways in which neoliberal regimes insert themselves in the region and combine, coexist or clash with existing institutional regimes of power. It documents the highly di…
Entrapped Entrepreneurship: Labour contractors in the South Indian garment industry
As neoliberal restructuring leads to the rise of labour market intermediaries globally, labour contractors are being vilified as unscrupulous recruiters and as wicked figures who exploit and harass. Based on long-term ethnographic research among workers and contractors in the Tamil Nadu garment industry, this article argues for a more careful and grounded analysis of labour contractors' role and position under neoliberalization. Evidence is prese…
Fordism, flexible specialization and CSR: How Indian garment workers critique neoliberal labour regimes
Global production and trade networks have significant transformative effects on production regimes across the Global South, and tend to produce particular work regimes and workplaces at the sites of production. CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) interventions similarly seek to reshape production processes in their search to improve labour conditions and protect workers' rights. However, workers' voices and their preferences for particular work…
MGNREGA in Tamil Nadu: A Story of Success and Transformation
Social protection has emerged as a key driver of development policy at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is widely considered a 'good thing' that has the potential not only to alleviate poverty and vulnerability, but also to generate more transformative outcomes in terms of empowerment and social justice. Based on an ethnographic study of the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), India…
From field to factory: Tracing transformations in bonded labour in the Tiruppur region, Tamil Nadu
Taking a historical perspective this paper explores the phasing out of ‘bonded’ labour in agriculture and its reappearance in the village-based powerloom industry in the Tiruppur region of Tamil Nadu, India. \nFocussing on a village outside Tiruppur, we trace the gradual transformation, and ultimate disappearance of forms of labour bondage in agriculture. In this region bondedness in agriculture changed in a number of significant ways, before giv…
Labouring for global markets: Conceptualising labour agency in global production networks
NREGA and the Return of Identity Politics in Western Tamil Nadu, India
Journal article on NREGA and its impacts on changing rural and urban social relations and politics in the Tiruppur region of Tamil Nadu, India
Labouring for global markets: Conceptualising labour agency in global production networks
Waiting for the state: Gender, citizenship and everyday encounters with bureaucracy in India
This article focuses on practices and meanings of time and waiting experienced by poor, low-class Dalits and Muslims in their routine encounters with the state in India. Drawing on ethnographic research from Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh, it presents experiences of waiting around queuing and applying for paperwork, cards, and welfare schemes, in order to examine the role of temporal processes in the production of citizenship and citizen agency. An…
T-shirts and tumblers: Caste, dependency and work under neoliberalisation in south India
This article explores the variegated nature of processes of neoliberalisation and their diverse impacts on relations of caste and dependency in rural India. Focusing on the rural hinterland of Tiruppur, a major industrial cluster in Tamil Nadu, south India, the article examines the ways in which neoliberal regimes insert themselves in the region and combine, coexist or clash with existing institutional regimes of power. It documents the highly di…
Entrapped Entrepreneurship: Labour contractors in the South Indian garment industry
As neoliberal restructuring leads to the rise of labour market intermediaries globally, labour contractors are being vilified as unscrupulous recruiters and as wicked figures who exploit and harass. Based on long-term ethnographic research among workers and contractors in the Tamil Nadu garment industry, this article argues for a more careful and grounded analysis of labour contractors' role and position under neoliberalization. Evidence is prese…
From field to factory: Tracing transformations in bonded labour in the Tiruppur region, Tamil Nadu
Taking a historical perspective this paper explores the phasing out of ‘bonded’ labour in agriculture and its reappearance in the village-based powerloom industry in the Tiruppur region of Tamil Nadu, India. \nFocussing on a village outside Tiruppur, we trace the gradual transformation, and ultimate disappearance of forms of labour bondage in agriculture. In this region bondedness in agriculture changed in a number of significant ways, before giv…
Fordism, flexible specialization and CSR: How Indian garment workers critique neoliberal labour regimes
Global production and trade networks have significant transformative effects on production regimes across the Global South, and tend to produce particular work regimes and workplaces at the sites of production. CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) interventions similarly seek to reshape production processes in their search to improve labour conditions and protect workers' rights. However, workers' voices and their preferences for particular work…
Paperwork, patronage, and citizenship: The materiality of everyday interactions with bureaucracy in Tamil Nadu, India
This article explores the material practices through which lower-caste and poor villagers engage with bureaucracy in contemporary India. We take documents and paperwork - such as ration cards and community certificates - as a 'lens' through which to explore how paper materiality is infused with the politics of power, patronage, and identity. The article brings ethnography from rural Tamil Nadu, South India, in conversation with two bodies of lite…
Asking for and giving baki: Neo-bondage, or the interplay of bondage and resistance in the Tamilnadu power-loom industry
This paper on labour relations in the power-loom industry of the south Indian town Kumarapalayam (Salem district, Tamilnadu) explores the dynamics of this practice of 'ask ing for and giving baki', employers' advances to their labourers, which has now become a widespread custom within this capitalist, industrial and urban setting. The introduction of this practice is related to the manufacturer-employers' search for a stable, skilled and discipli…
The Economies of Love: Love marriage, kin support, and aspiration in a South Indian garment city
The article considers narratives and experiences of love marriage in the garment city of Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu, South India. As a booming centre of garment production, Tiruppur attracts a diverse migrant workforce of young men and women who have plenty of opportunity to fall in love and enter marriages of their own making. Based on long-term ethnographic research, the article explores what love marriages mean to those involved, how they are expe…
MGNREGA in Tamil Nadu: A Story of Success and Transformation
Social protection has emerged as a key driver of development policy at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is widely considered a 'good thing' that has the potential not only to alleviate poverty and vulnerability, but also to generate more transformative outcomes in terms of empowerment and social justice. Based on an ethnographic study of the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), India…
Expectations and rewards of modernity: Commitment and mobility among rural migrants in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu
This article presents a critique of a discourse, commonly found in anthropological and historical accounts, that stereotypes rural labour migrants as unreliable workers who are not yet fully committed to industrial work regimes and who keep prioritising rural responsibilities above industrial needs. Based on data collected in the garment industry of Tirupur, south India, it is shown that rural migrants can as well be conceived of by their urban e…
Patronage and 'community: The role of a Tamil 'village' festival in the integration of a town
Focusing on the festival of 'village' goddesses in two small towns in Tamilnadu, South India, the article investigates how the urban organization of temples and festivals reflects characteristics of the organization of similar festivals in villages, whilst at the same time the 'acts of patronage' of wealthy local industrialists increasingly shape the nature of the 'community' generated at festival and other times. Building on idioms of village co…
We are all sondukarar (relatives): Kinship and its morality in an urban industry of Tamilnadu, South India
This article is concerned with the role of kinship and kin morality in contexts of work in South Asia. It focuses on the highly ambivalent nature of kin morality when mobilised outside the household and the family. Ethnographic evidence from a small-scale industry in Tamilnadu, South India, shows how employers frequently invoke the morality of kinship and caste in an attempt to secure a reliable and compliant labour force and to avoid overt class…
Health and safety in garment workers’ lives: Setting a new research agenda
Predatory Property: Urban Land Acquisition, Housing and Class Formation in Tiruppur, South India
While liberalization policies have unleashed unprecedented opportunities for accumulation and wealth extraction in India, the urban social consequences of post-reform economic restructuring have been poorly documented to date. Based on ethnographic research carried out in the city of Tiruppur in South India, this article describes the processes of land acquisition and politics of housing that shape the contemporary dynamics of urban restructuring…
Revisiting Urban Property in India
Litigation against Political Organization? The Politics of Dalit Mobilization in Tamil Nadu, India
This article examines contemporary Dalit assertion in India through an ethnographic case study of a legal tool being mobilized by Tamil Nadu's lowest-ranking Arunthathiyars in their struggle against caste-based offences. The Arunthathiyars of western Tamil Nadu are increasingly taking recourse to the 1989 Prevention of Atrocities Act (PoA Act) in an attempt to bring members of higher castes to justice. The article explores how Arunthathiyars are …
Why Indians Vote: Reflections on Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy from a Tamil Nadu Village
This paper contributes to an empirical and theoretical understanding of democracy and political participation in India through an ethnographic study of the meanings attached to voting in rural Tamil Nadu. Based on a study of voting in a rural constituency during the 2009 national elections, the paper explores the variety of motivations that compel people to vote. It explores how voting is informed by popular understandings of rights and duties as…
NREGA and the Return of Identity Politics in Western Tamil Nadu, India
Journal article on NREGA and its impacts on changing rural and urban social relations and politics in the Tiruppur region of Tamil Nadu, India
Towards an Ethnography of the Workplace: Hierarchy, Authority and Sociability On the South Indian Textile Shop-Floor
Training for employment or skilling up from employment? Jobs and skills acquisition in the Tiruppur textile region, India
This paper explores how skills for garment work are acquired in the rural hinterland of Tiruppur, one of India’s largest garment manufacturing clusters. Drawing on a quantitative survey and qualitative interviews with garment workers in Tiruppur’s hinterland, we document the informal pathways of skill acquisition for garment work and advocate a demand-driven approach to vocational training. Such an approach, first, unsettles linear policy assumpt…
India’s Gig Economy Workers at the Time of Covid-19: An Introduction
Informal, individual and cumulative labour agency: Reconceptualising capital's socio-spatial fix in the south Indian garment industry
This paper reconceptualises labour agency by examining the cumulative impact of informal and individual worker agency on capital’s search for a social-spatial fix in the Tiruppur garment industry in Tamil Nadu, India. The study foregrounds everyday micro-acts—such as choosing, refusing, and exiting work—as significant forms of agency, especially when viewed in aggregate. Based on ethnographic research, we explore how these acts influence the soci…
Skills, training and development: An introduction to the social life of skills in the global South
‘Skills’ and ‘skill development’ feature evermore prominently in international development discourse and in the policies of governments across the global South. Yet, these discourses and policies often proceed with a weak conception of the social circumstances and everyday processes by which skills are acquired, disseminated, and used. This tends to result in approaches to skill development that are simultaneously unrealistic, in the sense that t…
Cultural Diversity and Social Discontent: Anthropological Studies on Contemporary India
Asking for and giving baki: Neo-bondage, or the interplay of bondage and resistance in the Tamilnadu power-loom industry
This paper on labour relations in the power-loom industry of the south Indian town Kumarapalayam (Salem district, Tamilnadu) explores the dynamics of this practice of 'ask ing for and giving baki', employers' advances to their labourers, which has now become a widespread custom within this capitalist, industrial and urban setting. The introduction of this practice is related to the manufacturer-employers' search for a stable, skilled and discipli…
Cultural Diversity and Social Discontent: Anthropological Studies on Contemporary India
Patronage and 'community: The role of a Tamil 'village' festival in the integration of a town
Focusing on the festival of 'village' goddesses in two small towns in Tamilnadu, South India, the article investigates how the urban organization of temples and festivals reflects characteristics of the organization of similar festivals in villages, whilst at the same time the 'acts of patronage' of wealthy local industrialists increasingly shape the nature of the 'community' generated at festival and other times. Building on idioms of village co…
Towards an Ethnography of the Workplace: Hierarchy, Authority and Sociability On the South Indian Textile Shop-Floor
Expectations and rewards of modernity: Commitment and mobility among rural migrants in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu
This article presents a critique of a discourse, commonly found in anthropological and historical accounts, that stereotypes rural labour migrants as unreliable workers who are not yet fully committed to industrial work regimes and who keep prioritising rural responsibilities above industrial needs. Based on data collected in the garment industry of Tirupur, south India, it is shown that rural migrants can as well be conceived of by their urban e…
Globalizing India: Perspectives from Below
Hidden Hands in the Market: Ethnographies of Fair Trade, Ethical Consumption, and Corporate Social Responsibility
Against increased extraction from less powerful economic actors, we find ethical movements, such as Fair Trade, that work to return a fair share of the price to producers and workers. And, against the unfettered Market, we encounter a move to re-regulate trade and protect those located in the most vulnerable market positions.The volume engages with a range of alternative ethical perspectives and the initiatives to which they give rise. Twelve ess…
Global garment chains, local labour activism: New challenges to trade union and NGO activism in the Tiruppur garment cluster, South India
Almost on a daily basis newspapers and magazines tell us of the exploitative circumstances under which workers produce garments for the global market. While local trade unions, international NGOs, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) officers claim to act in the interests of garment workers, the latter continue to lack voice and representation in their everyday struggles for better and fairer employment. Focusing on a South Indian garment cl…
We are all sondukarar (relatives): Kinship and its morality in an urban industry of Tamilnadu, South India
This article is concerned with the role of kinship and kin morality in contexts of work in South Asia. It focuses on the highly ambivalent nature of kin morality when mobilised outside the household and the family. Ethnographic evidence from a small-scale industry in Tamilnadu, South India, shows how employers frequently invoke the morality of kinship and caste in an attempt to secure a reliable and compliant labour force and to avoid overt class…
India's Unfree Workforce. Of Bondage Old and New – Edited by Jan Breman, Isabelle Guérin and Aseem Prakash
NREGA and the Return of Identity Politics in Western Tamil Nadu, India
Journal article on NREGA and its impacts on changing rural and urban social relations and politics in the Tiruppur region of Tamil Nadu, India
Labouring for global markets: Conceptualising labour agency in global production networks
From field to factory: Tracing transformations in bonded labour in the Tiruppur region, Tamil Nadu
Taking a historical perspective this paper explores the phasing out of ‘bonded’ labour in agriculture and its reappearance in the village-based powerloom industry in the Tiruppur region of Tamil Nadu, India. \nFocussing on a village outside Tiruppur, we trace the gradual transformation, and ultimate disappearance of forms of labour bondage in agriculture. In this region bondedness in agriculture changed in a number of significant ways, before giv…
Why Indians Vote: Reflections on Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy from a Tamil Nadu Village
This paper contributes to an empirical and theoretical understanding of democracy and political participation in India through an ethnographic study of the meanings attached to voting in rural Tamil Nadu. Based on a study of voting in a rural constituency during the 2009 national elections, the paper explores the variety of motivations that compel people to vote. It explores how voting is informed by popular understandings of rights and duties as…
T-shirts and tumblers: Caste, dependency and work under neoliberalisation in south India
This article explores the variegated nature of processes of neoliberalisation and their diverse impacts on relations of caste and dependency in rural India. Focusing on the rural hinterland of Tiruppur, a major industrial cluster in Tamil Nadu, south India, the article examines the ways in which neoliberal regimes insert themselves in the region and combine, coexist or clash with existing institutional regimes of power. It documents the highly di…
Entrapped Entrepreneurship: Labour contractors in the South Indian garment industry
As neoliberal restructuring leads to the rise of labour market intermediaries globally, labour contractors are being vilified as unscrupulous recruiters and as wicked figures who exploit and harass. Based on long-term ethnographic research among workers and contractors in the Tamil Nadu garment industry, this article argues for a more careful and grounded analysis of labour contractors' role and position under neoliberalization. Evidence is prese…
Fordism, flexible specialization and CSR: How Indian garment workers critique neoliberal labour regimes
Global production and trade networks have significant transformative effects on production regimes across the Global South, and tend to produce particular work regimes and workplaces at the sites of production. CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) interventions similarly seek to reshape production processes in their search to improve labour conditions and protect workers' rights. However, workers' voices and their preferences for particular work…
MGNREGA in Tamil Nadu: A Story of Success and Transformation
Social protection has emerged as a key driver of development policy at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is widely considered a 'good thing' that has the potential not only to alleviate poverty and vulnerability, but also to generate more transformative outcomes in terms of empowerment and social justice. Based on an ethnographic study of the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), India…
Predatory Property: Urban Land Acquisition, Housing and Class Formation in Tiruppur, South India
While liberalization policies have unleashed unprecedented opportunities for accumulation and wealth extraction in India, the urban social consequences of post-reform economic restructuring have been poorly documented to date. Based on ethnographic research carried out in the city of Tiruppur in South India, this article describes the processes of land acquisition and politics of housing that shape the contemporary dynamics of urban restructuring…
Revisiting Urban Property in India
Litigation against Political Organization? The Politics of Dalit Mobilization in Tamil Nadu, India
This article examines contemporary Dalit assertion in India through an ethnographic case study of a legal tool being mobilized by Tamil Nadu's lowest-ranking Arunthathiyars in their struggle against caste-based offences. The Arunthathiyars of western Tamil Nadu are increasingly taking recourse to the 1989 Prevention of Atrocities Act (PoA Act) in an attempt to bring members of higher castes to justice. The article explores how Arunthathiyars are …
Hidden Reflexivity: Assistants, Informants and the Creation of Anthropological Knowledge
This chapter discusses how the anthropologist's own reflexivity is closely connected to, and shaped by, the reflexivity of those who belong to the society observed, including that of the famous yet rarely discussed assistant. It suggests that the sort of reflexivity that might be most revealing in relation to how anthropological knowledge is constructed is that which focuses on what takes place in 'the field' as an intersubjective practice. The c…
The Economies of Love: Love marriage, kin support, and aspiration in a South Indian garment city
The article considers narratives and experiences of love marriage in the garment city of Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu, South India. As a booming centre of garment production, Tiruppur attracts a diverse migrant workforce of young men and women who have plenty of opportunity to fall in love and enter marriages of their own making. Based on long-term ethnographic research, the article explores what love marriages mean to those involved, how they are expe…
Health and safety in garment workers’ lives: Setting a new research agenda
Waiting for the state: Gender, citizenship and everyday encounters with bureaucracy in India
This article focuses on practices and meanings of time and waiting experienced by poor, low-class Dalits and Muslims in their routine encounters with the state in India. Drawing on ethnographic research from Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh, it presents experiences of waiting around queuing and applying for paperwork, cards, and welfare schemes, in order to examine the role of temporal processes in the production of citizenship and citizen agency. An…
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