Supurna Banerjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 6185849 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Supurna Banerjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Supurna |
| FAMILY NAME | Banerjee |
| SIGNATURE | BANERJEE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5879-4945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘This is women’s work’
Within a framework of deindustrialization and crisis of employment in India, the article explores the impact of incorporation of male workers in atypical sectors, specifically domestic and care work, occupations which are dominated by women. Based on long interviews, it shows the processes by which they reconfigure gender hierarchies within these occupations. I focus on the tensions and conflicts that emerge from the contradiction between the lab…
The Red and Gold Pen
South Asian migrations in global history
Laboring Femininities
Tea plantation workers in India have historically been a part of the feminized workforce, constituting somewhat exceptionally formal labor in a country with high informalization of women's employment. In the past decade, however, a combined fallout of neo-liberalization and globalization contextualized within the local history of varying phases of incorporation, accumulation/dispossession and shifting relations of production brought about a crisi…
Tea, justice, and resistance
Work in pandemic times
Research on crisis have brought to fore the necessity of studying the gendered impact of such events. Covid-19 too has shown how gender relations play a role in the political economy of crisis, relief and response as well as recovery. This article focusses on the experiences of paid domestic workers in India who are among the most invisible and marginalized of India's informal workers and largely excluded from labor discourse and employment legis…
“Who Leaves Home If There is a Choice?”
The Dooars tea plantations in India were colonial enterprises set up through recruiting a migrant workforce from Central India. Against the background of the crisis in the Indian tea industry in the early 2000s, and the resulting migration of workers to the cities to join various casual workforces, this article questions the dualities in the framework of migration/displacement and aspiration/desperation. Through mapping the migration decisions of…
Introduction. Debating Intersectionalities
Intersectionality is primarily an organizing principle which calls for reflexivity in the study of social characteristics, such that one marginality is not substituted for another and lived experiences are not treated as generic and undifferentiated. Critiques of intersectionality have feared that intersectionality results in the fragmentation of the opposition to structural oppression. We argue for the potentialities of a reflexive use of inters…
From ‘Plantation Workers’ to Naukrānī
The tea plantations of Dooars in West Bengal are founded on a gendered division of labour. The recent economic crisis faced by the tea plantations brought long-established labour practices into question. Mounting expenses and closures led to rising migration of plantation workers to distant urban areas in North and South India, in search of alternative employment. Many of these women found employment as domestic workers and care workers in Delhi …
Activism and Agency in India
During the period 2000 to 2010, tea plantations in India experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation, framed by conflict and turbulence. This book is an interdisciplinary and intersectional work examining the nature of victimhood and agency among women workers on tea plantations in North Bengal, India. The author views tea plantations as social spaces, rather than only economic units of production. Focusing on the lived exper…
Boundaries undermined
Against the physicality of fences and the history of East Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh relations Boundaries Undermined is a vividly drawn ethnography of two borderland villages, Boropani and Khonig
From ‘Plantation Workers’ to Naukrānī
The tea plantations of Dooars in West Bengal are founded on a gendered division of labour. The recent economic crisis faced by the tea plantations brought long-established labour practices into question. Mounting expenses and closures led to rising migration of plantation workers to distant urban areas in North and South India, in search of alternative employment. Many of these women found employment as domestic workers and care workers in Delhi …
Work in pandemic times
Research on crisis have brought to fore the necessity of studying the gendered impact of such events. Covid-19 too has shown how gender relations play a role in the political economy of crisis, relief and response as well as recovery. This article focusses on the experiences of paid domestic workers in India who are among the most invisible and marginalized of India's informal workers and largely excluded from labor discourse and employment legis…
Boundaries undermined
Against the physicality of fences and the history of East Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh relations Boundaries Undermined is a vividly drawn ethnography of two borderland villages, Boropani and Khonig
Laboring Femininities
Tea plantation workers in India have historically been a part of the feminized workforce, constituting somewhat exceptionally formal labor in a country with high informalization of women's employment. In the past decade, however, a combined fallout of neo-liberalization and globalization contextualized within the local history of varying phases of incorporation, accumulation/dispossession and shifting relations of production brought about a crisi…
Boundaries undermined
Against the physicality of fences and the history of East Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh relations Boundaries Undermined is a vividly drawn ethnography of two borderland villages, Boropani and Khonig
Activism and Agency in India
During the period 2000 to 2010, tea plantations in India experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation, framed by conflict and turbulence. This book is an interdisciplinary and intersectional work examining the nature of victimhood and agency among women workers on tea plantations in North Bengal, India. The author views tea plantations as social spaces, rather than only economic units of production. Focusing on the lived exper…
Introduction. Debating Intersectionalities
Intersectionality is primarily an organizing principle which calls for reflexivity in the study of social characteristics, such that one marginality is not substituted for another and lived experiences are not treated as generic and undifferentiated. Critiques of intersectionality have feared that intersectionality results in the fragmentation of the opposition to structural oppression. We argue for the potentialities of a reflexive use of inters…
From ‘Plantation Workers’ to Naukrānī
The tea plantations of Dooars in West Bengal are founded on a gendered division of labour. The recent economic crisis faced by the tea plantations brought long-established labour practices into question. Mounting expenses and closures led to rising migration of plantation workers to distant urban areas in North and South India, in search of alternative employment. Many of these women found employment as domestic workers and care workers in Delhi …
“Who Leaves Home If There is a Choice?”
The Dooars tea plantations in India were colonial enterprises set up through recruiting a migrant workforce from Central India. Against the background of the crisis in the Indian tea industry in the early 2000s, and the resulting migration of workers to the cities to join various casual workforces, this article questions the dualities in the framework of migration/displacement and aspiration/desperation. Through mapping the migration decisions of…
Tea, justice, and resistance
Work in pandemic times
Research on crisis have brought to fore the necessity of studying the gendered impact of such events. Covid-19 too has shown how gender relations play a role in the political economy of crisis, relief and response as well as recovery. This article focusses on the experiences of paid domestic workers in India who are among the most invisible and marginalized of India's informal workers and largely excluded from labor discourse and employment legis…
The Red and Gold Pen
South Asian migrations in global history
Laboring Femininities
Tea plantation workers in India have historically been a part of the feminized workforce, constituting somewhat exceptionally formal labor in a country with high informalization of women's employment. In the past decade, however, a combined fallout of neo-liberalization and globalization contextualized within the local history of varying phases of incorporation, accumulation/dispossession and shifting relations of production brought about a crisi…
‘This is women’s work’
Within a framework of deindustrialization and crisis of employment in India, the article explores the impact of incorporation of male workers in atypical sectors, specifically domestic and care work, occupations which are dominated by women. Based on long interviews, it shows the processes by which they reconfigure gender hierarchies within these occupations. I focus on the tensions and conflicts that emerge from the contradiction between the lab…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Domestic work (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)