Lucy Dubochet
Biographic Data
| ID | 93194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Dubochet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Dubochet |
| SIGNATURE | DUBOCHET L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wolfson College, University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4736-8083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Waiting and the gendered boundaries of work among India's poor
Poor people in India routinely have to wait for short-term employment, basic services and subsidized goods. Based on fieldwork in Delhi, this paper describes how this waiting blends into an environment where men are underemployed and women try to make ends meet by engaging in contentious public activities. While negotiating destabilized gender roles, the latter downplay their wait for services and describe much of their paid and unpaid work as ‘m…
Citizenship as Burden of Proof: Voting and Hiding Among Migrants from India's Eastern Borderlands
Millions of people from India's northeastern state of Assam have to defend themselves against suspicions that they are illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh. I explore how one such group of individuals, who work as waste pickers in Delhi, protect their citizenship against the combined vulnerabilities of being Assamese, Muslim, and residents of an unauthorized slum. I show that they develop a split relation with the government, defined by a…
"Women's "timepass: Waiting as work, politics, and survival among Delhi's poor
In a poor neighborhood of Delhi, women try to cope with unemployment among male breadwinners, and in so doing they often frame their practices as a way of passing time. From the long wait at service points to contentious involvements in work and politics, they depict a host of different and seemingly contradictory activities as meaningless idleness. My analysis of these discourses uncovers a wider pattern of minimizing in which women sometimes in…
Citizenship as Burden of Proof: Voting and Hiding Among Migrants from India's Eastern Borderlands
Millions of people from India's northeastern state of Assam have to defend themselves against suspicions that they are illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh. I explore how one such group of individuals, who work as waste pickers in Delhi, protect their citizenship against the combined vulnerabilities of being Assamese, Muslim, and residents of an unauthorized slum. I show that they develop a split relation with the government, defined by a…
"Women's "timepass: Waiting as work, politics, and survival among Delhi's poor
In a poor neighborhood of Delhi, women try to cope with unemployment among male breadwinners, and in so doing they often frame their practices as a way of passing time. From the long wait at service points to contentious involvements in work and politics, they depict a host of different and seemingly contradictory activities as meaningless idleness. My analysis of these discourses uncovers a wider pattern of minimizing in which women sometimes in…
Citizenship as Burden of Proof: Voting and Hiding Among Migrants from India's Eastern Borderlands
Millions of people from India's northeastern state of Assam have to defend themselves against suspicions that they are illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh. I explore how one such group of individuals, who work as waste pickers in Delhi, protect their citizenship against the combined vulnerabilities of being Assamese, Muslim, and residents of an unauthorized slum. I show that they develop a split relation with the government, defined by a…
"Women's "timepass: Waiting as work, politics, and survival among Delhi's poor
In a poor neighborhood of Delhi, women try to cope with unemployment among male breadwinners, and in so doing they often frame their practices as a way of passing time. From the long wait at service points to contentious involvements in work and politics, they depict a host of different and seemingly contradictory activities as meaningless idleness. My analysis of these discourses uncovers a wider pattern of minimizing in which women sometimes in…
Waiting and the gendered boundaries of work among India's poor
Poor people in India routinely have to wait for short-term employment, basic services and subsidized goods. Based on fieldwork in Delhi, this paper describes how this waiting blends into an environment where men are underemployed and women try to make ends meet by engaging in contentious public activities. While negotiating destabilized gender roles, the latter downplay their wait for services and describe much of their paid and unpaid work as ‘m…
Sociology (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Alienation (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Assamese (1 works)