Circular migration and rural cosmopolitanism in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3864786 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vinay Gidwani (University of Minnesota), K Sivaramakrishnan (0000-0002-6946-858X, University of Washington) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 339-367 |
| Publication date | 2003-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contributions to Indian Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0069-9659 • E-ISSN: 0069-9667 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/006996670303700114 |
| OpenAlex | W2011445059 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 86 |
| References cited | 38 |
In this article we present a provisional theory of rural cosmopolitanism as a counterpoint to conventional discussions of cosmopolitanism and demonstrate its significance for studying South Asian modernities. We explore our ideas through the figure of the circular migrant: someone who transmits through movements in geographic space not just sensi bilities and ideas, but also the materials and techniques that enable the transformation of social space in multiple worlds. The regionalisation of labour markets in India, with a consequent rise in labour circulation, provides empirical justification to our foeus on circular migrants. But neither circular migration nor rural cosmopolitanism is a new phenomenon. Instead, we suggest that by probing the largely invisible histories of move ment within South Asia, we may end up writing the rise of nationalisms, regional political movements, and modernities in that part of the world in very different ways. This is pre cisely why it is necessary to reject the figure of an international or transnational subject as the standard bearer of cosmopolitanism and realise that cosmopolitanism operates at various scales; and, equally, that the cosmopolitan is a person who disrupts conven tional spatial divisions and produces newly salient spaces of work, pleasure, habitation and politics
Cosmopolitanism · Counterpoint · Economic geography · Epistemology · Geography · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regionalisation · Salient · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Indian Economic and Social Development · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy
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Work and Cosmopolitanism at the Border
Ambiguities and Paradoxes of the Decent Work Deficit
Unnoyon, chakri and the toto
A Different Difference
Articulations
Migrant Labourers’ Struggles Between Village and Urban Migration Sites
Between construction yard and village
Rural Geographies of Refugee Activism
Cultural capital and constrained agency in debt-migration for construction work in India
Precarity as a Coping Strategy of the Gonds
Between cosmopolitanism and parochialism
Being a tribal man from the North-East
Pride and shame in the city
Cosmopolitanism and rural education
Placing” Space
Amphibious Media Histories
Globalization and the Changing Geography of Social Life in Rural Kerala
Main Bhi to Hindostaan Hoon’
Anti-trafficking and its discontents
Rooted flexibility
Weaver to precarity capitalism
Cosmopolitan imaginaries on the margins
At home in the city, at home in the world
Commentary
Refugees, race and the limits of rural cosmopolitanism
Race and place-making in the rural Global North
Precarious rural cosmopolitanism
Planned illegality, permanent temporariness, and strategic philanthropy
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Engagement in a Public Forum
Class, Caste, Gender, and the Materiality of Cement Houses in India
Testing the Waters
Cochin Creole and the perils of casteist cosmopolitanism
The work of waste
Viable lives
Rural-urban circularity in China
Walking with the Subalterns’
Rural cosmopolitanism at the frontier? Chinese farmers and community relations in northern Queensland, c .1890–1920
Monkey Business
The Diaspora Within
Crossing the Bosphorus
Chronotopic mechanisms of sedentary subjectification
Rural cosmopolitism in Australia
Migration and the invisible economies of care
Geographies of identity
Dialectics of Transnational Mobility, Class, and Cultural-Intermediary among Indonesian Student-Migrant Workers in South Korea
Seeking antassu
National identity in relief
Claiming the State
Everyday prefiguration
The Pursuit of Social Welfare
Infrastructures of (im)mobility
The Legacies of Afghanistan’s Urban Cosmopolitanism
Connecting country and city
Postcolonial Bombay
Sociedade mundial de risco
Fragments for the Future
Global Peddlers and Local Networks
Itinerant urbanization
Kicking Away the Ladder
For a Geohistorical Cosmopolitanism
Performing Cosmopolitanism
Militarized borderlands
Spotlighting Migrant Agency
Educated to be global
Além da dicotomia Ocidente/Resto
Migration, transnationalism, and modernity
Migrants as Homo Economicus
FM radio and the Malayali diaspora in Qatar
Betwixt and Between
Muslim Cosmopolitans? Transnational Life in Northern Pakistan
Continuity in Mind
Uncertain Journeys
Marginal Hubs
That Used to be a Famous Village
Villages in the City
Between Khet (Field) and Factory, Gaanv
Rural Youth and Circulating Labour in South India
Bonded Labour, Agrarian Changes and Capitalism
Timepass
Listening to Images, Participatory Pedagogy, and Anthropological (Re-)Inventions
Stuck on a Muddy Road
Translated fronts
From Landlords to Software Engineers
Imperial power and popular politics
Call to home
Nationalism without a nation in India
Remotely Global
Footloose Labour
High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy
The origins of swadeshi (home industry)
Provincializing Europe
Modernity at large
Transnational Connections
Beyond “Culture”
Diasporic subjects
Coolies and Colliers
Pandora's hope
The condition of postmodernity
Racism and Nationalism
Circular Migration and the Spaces of Cultural Assertion
Hope and despair
The badli system in industrial labour recruitment
Peasant Moorings
Consequences of Migration and Remittances for Mexican Transnational Communities
Lords of labour
Gender ideologies and the formation of rural industrial classes in South India today
From Transience to Immanence
Unsettled Settlers
An Indian Rural Economy, 1880-1955
Expectations of Modernity
Rethinking Modernity
Migration and Privatization of Space and Power in Late Socialist China
Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women
Cosmopolitanisms
Vertigo and Emancipation, Creole Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Politics
Anthropology and Modernity
| Unique citing works | 86 |
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| Citations per year | 4,53 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 83 |