Inherited caste identity is an important determinant of life opportunity for a fifth of the world's
population, but is not given the same significance in global development policy debates as …

Research on precarity predominantly adopts a monolithic view of labour market
intermediaries and ignores the differential distribution of precarity based on social group …

Neoliberal globalisation has resulted in the bypassing of agrarian transition-led
industrialisation and classic proletarianisation, and class-for-itself class struggles are rare …

In India, the practice of jugaad—finding workarounds or hacks to solve problems—emerged
out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence but is now …

What place does the caste system have in modern India with its globally integrating market
economy? The most influential anthropological approaches to caste have tended to …

Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces organizing the predatory geographies
of late capitalism. It creates entangled futures of exploitation and dependence, extracting …

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 …

Drawing from in-depth interviews of cleaners employed in the cleaning industry in India, the
study examines the ongoing process of constructing a positive identity among dirty workers …

This review article uses India's e-waste economy to examine changes in the circular
economy. Today, due to a mix of consumptive economies, urban ecological concerns and its …

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 …