Five issues hidden behind the exodus of India’s migrant labour under the Covid-19 lockdown
(2020)
Digital Artefact
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2020). Five issues hidden behind the exodus of India’s migrant labour under the Covid-19 lockdown. [Blog post]
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The five truths about the migrant workers’ crisis: Opinion (2020)
Digital Artefact
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2020). The five truths about the migrant workers’ crisis: Opinion
Reading 'Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis' (2020)
Digital Artefact
Lindley, A. (2020). Reading 'Broken Cities: Inside the Global Housing Crisis'. [Centre for Development and Emergency Practice Blog]
Workers’ Power in Resisting Precarity: Comparing Transport Workers in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam (2020)
Journal Article
Rizzo, M., & Atzeni, M. (2020). Workers’ Power in Resisting Precarity: Comparing Transport Workers in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam. Work, Employment and Society, 34(6), 1114-1130. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020928248The growing precariousness of employment across the world has radically altered the conditions upon which the representation of workers’ interests has traditionally been built, as it has posed challenges for established trade unions: individualized e... Read More about Workers’ Power in Resisting Precarity: Comparing Transport Workers in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam.
Expropriations of private property for economic 'development’ in the United States: re-thinking the titling and Rule of Law solutions to land grabs in the Global South (2020)
Journal Article
Thomson, F. (2020). Expropriations of private property for economic 'development’ in the United States: re-thinking the titling and Rule of Law solutions to land grabs in the Global South. Estudios Socio-Juridicos, 22(2), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/sociojuridicos/a.7872Mainstream discourses tend to treat land dispossession as a ‘developing’ country problem that arises due to weak/corrupt legal systems and inadequate property institutions. This article unsettles such discourses by examining expropriations for econom... Read More about Expropriations of private property for economic 'development’ in the United States: re-thinking the titling and Rule of Law solutions to land grabs in the Global South.
Migration and the Invisible Economies of Care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India (2020)
Journal Article
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2020). Migration and the Invisible Economies of Care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(4), 719-734. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12401This paper focuses on the processes of migrant labour exploitation which are crucial for capitalist growth and the inequalities they generate. Ethnographic research conducted in different sites across India shows how patterns of seasonal labour migra... Read More about Migration and the Invisible Economies of Care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India.
How Asia’s clothing factories switched to making PPE – but sweatshop problems live on (2020)
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Mezzadri, A., & Ruwanpura, K. N. (2020). How Asia’s clothing factories switched to making PPE – but sweatshop problems live on
Religion (2020)
Book Chapter
Achcar, G. (2020). Religion. In M. Musto (Ed.), The Marx Revival (320-337). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316338902.019Religion is one of the issues on which the Marxian corpus – the writings authored or co-authored by Karl Marx himself – is deficient. Although there are plenty of references to religion in Marx’s oeuvre, his most quoted statements on the topic belong... Read More about Religion.
Religion (2020)
Book Chapter
Achcar, G. (2020). Religion. In M. Musto (Ed.), The Marx Revival (320-337). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316338902.019Religion is one of the issues on which the Marxian corpus – the writings authored or co-authored by Karl Marx himself – is deficient. Although there are plenty of references to religion in Marx’s oeuvre, his most quoted statements on the topic belong... Read More about Religion.
Knowledge, context and problemsheds: a critical realist method for interdisciplinary water studies (2020)
Journal Article
Mollinga, P. (2020). Knowledge, context and problemsheds: a critical realist method for interdisciplinary water studies. Water International, 45(5), 388-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2020.1787617Understanding water issues as problemsheds addresses the narrowly water-centred framing of watershed and basin-focused water research and policy. In a critical realist approach problemshed also serves to identify the context-specificity of water know... Read More about Knowledge, context and problemsheds: a critical realist method for interdisciplinary water studies.