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Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India (2023)
Book Chapter
Lerche, J., & Shah, A. (2023). Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India. In I. Roy (Ed.), Passionate politics. Development, politics and India’s general election 2019. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157751.00026

At the 2019 general election in India, the BJP succeeded in gaining more of the Dalit, Adivasi and OBC vote. This chapter highlights the everyday politics of social oppression and exploitation faced by Dalits and Adivasis in India. India is a society... Read More about Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India.

The Political Economy of Decentralisation in Indonesia (2023)
Thesis
Whiston, B. The Political Economy of Decentralisation in Indonesia. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines how decentralisation and pemekaran (a process of administrative fragmentation triggered by decentralisation) have impacted upon local elites’ and poorer social groups’ accumulation and livelihoods strategies in Indonesia. The res... Read More about The Political Economy of Decentralisation in Indonesia.

Understanding patterns of structural discrimination of migrant and other workers in some countries of South and West Asia (2022)
Report
Bosc, I., Lerche, J., Shah, A., Fajerman, M., & Wadhawan, N. (2022). Understanding patterns of structural discrimination of migrant and other workers in some countries of South and West Asia

Interview : Jens Lerche and Alpa Shah (2022)
Digital Artefact
Lerche, J., & Shah, A. (2022). Interview : Jens Lerche and Alpa Shah

Grounding Labour Regimes Analysis in Agrarian Political Economy (2022)
Book Chapter
Lerche, J. (2022). Grounding Labour Regimes Analysis in Agrarian Political Economy. In E. Baglioni, L. Campling, N. M. Coe, & A. Smith (Eds.), Labour Regimes and Global Production. Agenda Publishing. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2b6z898

Land-Pooling In Andhra Pradesh, India: A study of protracted dispossession and manufactured compliance in Amaravati (2022)
Thesis
Menon, R. Land-Pooling In Andhra Pradesh, India: A study of protracted dispossession and manufactured compliance in Amaravati. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

After the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into Telangana and residual Andhra in 2014, the ruling TDP government announced plans to build an ambitious new capital city, christened Amaravati, on the southern banks of the Krishna River in Guntur district.... Read More about Land-Pooling In Andhra Pradesh, India: A study of protracted dispossession and manufactured compliance in Amaravati.

The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India (2021)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (2021). The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 48(7), 1380-1396. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1986013

The article analyses the farm laws struggle in India which, at the time of writing (September 2021), has lasted more than a year. It aims to explain its unusually broad support base and to discuss the potential wider impact of the new social coalitio... Read More about The Farm Laws Struggle 2020-2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India.

Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour (2021)
Journal Article
Pattenden, J., Campling, L., Castañón Ballivián, E., Gras, C., Lerche, J., O'Laughlin, B., Oya, C., Pérez Niño, H., & Sinha, S. (2021). Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. Journal of Agrarian Change, 21(3), 582-590. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12440

Covid-19 generated a crisis in capitalism, but not of capitalism. Capitalism reproduces itself in crisis and in ways that have significant but uneven impacts on the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. This article explores prelimi... Read More about Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour.

Capitalism and Conjugated Oppression: Race, Caste, Tribe, Gender and Class in India (2021)
Journal Article
Lerche, J., & Shah, A. (2021). Capitalism and Conjugated Oppression: Race, Caste, Tribe, Gender and Class in India. Anveshi broadsheet on contemporary politics, 13-15

Jat Power and the Spread of the Farm Protests in Northern India (2021)
Digital Artefact
Lerche, J. Jat Power and the Spread of the Farm Protests in Northern India

The combination of caste & farmer identity amongst the Jats in western UP uniquely strengthens the resistance to the farm laws, but also creates barriers to creating lasting solidarities with marginalised groups that the farm movement is trying to in... Read More about Jat Power and the Spread of the Farm Protests in Northern India.

Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India (2021)
Journal Article
Shah, A., & Lerche, J. (2021). Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India. The British Journal of Sociology, 72(1), 93-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12815

Piketty's propositions for arresting inequality are discussed through the lens of racism/casteism. We focus on the case of India's George Floyds—the persistence of caste and tribe oppression under economic growth in India—through the insights of our... Read More about Black Lives Matter, Capital and Ideology: Spiralling out from India.

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

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]

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.12401

This 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.

Conjugated oppression within contemporary capitalism: class, caste, tribe and agrarian change in India (2018)
Journal Article
Lerche, J., & Alpa, S. (2018). Conjugated oppression within contemporary capitalism: class, caste, tribe and agrarian change in India. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 45(5-6), 927-949. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1463217

Neoliberal globalisation has resulted in the bypassing of agrarian transition-led industrialisation and classic proletarianisation, and class-for-itself class struggles are rare. Drawing on analyses of class relations, racism and other forms of socia... Read More about Conjugated oppression within contemporary capitalism: class, caste, tribe and agrarian change in India.

Ground Down by Growth. Tribe, Caste, Class, and Inequality in Twenty-First Century India (2018)
Book
Alpa, S., Lerche, J., Axelby, R., Benbabaali, D., Donegan, B., Raj, J., & Thakur, V. (2018). Ground Down by Growth. Tribe, Caste, Class, and Inequality in Twenty-First Century India. Pluto Press

The Triple Absence of Labour Rights: Triangular Labour Relations and Informalisation in the Construction and Garment Sectors in Delhi and Shanghai. (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
Lerche, J. The Triple Absence of Labour Rights: Triangular Labour Relations and Informalisation in the Construction and Garment Sectors in Delhi and Shanghai. London

Gaddis and Gujjars in Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh (2017)
Book Chapter
Axelby, R. (2017). Gaddis and Gujjars in Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh. In A. Shah, J. Lerche, R. Axelby, D. Benbabaali, B. Donegan, J. Raj, & V. Thakur (Eds.), Ground Down by Growth: Inequality in 21st century India (143-175). Pluto Press

Ground Down by Growth: Inequality in 21st century India (2017)
Book
Shah, A., Lerche, J., Axelby, R., Denbabaali, D., Donegan, B., Raj, J., & Thakur, V. (2017). Ground Down by Growth: Inequality in 21st century India. Pluto Press

Agrarian accumulation in liberalised India : a study of capitalist farmers in Punjab (2017)
Thesis
Sinha, S. Agrarian accumulation in liberalised India : a study of capitalist farmers in Punjab. (Thesis). SOAS University of London