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East Asian sexualities : modernity, gender and new sexual cultures (2008)
Book
Jackson, S., Liu, J., & Woo, J. (Eds.). (2008). East Asian sexualities : modernity, gender and new sexual cultures. Zed Books. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350219762

This book paints a vivid picture of women’s active involvement in reshaping intimate and public sexual life in East Asia. In bringing together exciting new feminist research on sexuality from East Asia and making it available to a wider audience, Eas... Read More about East Asian sexualities : modernity, gender and new sexual cultures.

Muscles, Morals and Mind: craft apprenticeship and the formation of person (2008)
Journal Article
Marchand, T. H. (2008). Muscles, Morals and Mind: craft apprenticeship and the formation of person. British Journal of Educational Studies, 56(3), 245-271. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8527.2008.00407.x

The paper considers apprenticeship as a model of education that both teaches technical skills and provides the grounding for personal formation. The research presented is based on long-term anthropological fieldwork with minaret builders in Yemen, mu... Read More about Muscles, Morals and Mind: craft apprenticeship and the formation of person.

Remembering natural disaster: Politics and culture of memorials in Gujarat and Sri Lanka (2008)
Journal Article
Simpson, E., & de Alwis, M. (2008). Remembering natural disaster: Politics and culture of memorials in Gujarat and Sri Lanka. Anthropology Today, 24(4), 6-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2008.00599.x

This article explores memorial practices that emerged after the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat and along the eastern and southern coasts of Sri Lanka following the tsunami of 2004. In both locations, acts of memorialization are inseparable from reconstru... Read More about Remembering natural disaster: Politics and culture of memorials in Gujarat and Sri Lanka.

Was there discrimination in the distribution of resources after the earthquake in Gujarat? Imagination, epistemology, and the state in western India (2008)
Preprint / Working Paper
Simpson, E. (2008). Was there discrimination in the distribution of resources after the earthquake in Gujarat? Imagination, epistemology, and the state in western India. London

In this paper, I analyse and reason with the patterns of discrimination evident in the reconstruction initiatives following the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat. I do so in order to explain what discrimination there was, and how and why such discrimination... Read More about Was there discrimination in the distribution of resources after the earthquake in Gujarat? Imagination, epistemology, and the state in western India.

In the Mists of Development: Fairtrade in Kenyan Tea Fields (2008)
Journal Article
Dolan, C. (2008). In the Mists of Development: Fairtrade in Kenyan Tea Fields. Globalizations, 5(2), 305-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747730802057787

Increasing numbers of consumers see themselves as ‘partners’ in poverty reduction, purchasing Fairtrade products to offset inequalities in the global economy and to ensure that producers in developing countries enjoy the same basic rights and freedom... Read More about In the Mists of Development: Fairtrade in Kenyan Tea Fields.

The rise and fall of collective public action in the aftermath of the Gujarat Earthquake of 2001 (2008)
Preprint / Working Paper
Simpson, E. The rise and fall of collective public action in the aftermath of the Gujarat Earthquake of 2001. London

In the aftermath of natural disasters there is typically an upsurge of collective public action and protest. Individual concerns inter-mingle with collective endeavours in both traditional and new ways. This article explores such collective forms of... Read More about The rise and fall of collective public action in the aftermath of the Gujarat Earthquake of 2001.

Calcutta Botanic Garden and the colonial re-ordering of the Indian environment (2008)
Journal Article
Axelby, R. (2008). Calcutta Botanic Garden and the colonial re-ordering of the Indian environment. Archives of Natural History, 35(1), 150-163. https://doi.org/10.3366/E0260954108000144

This article examines three hand-painted colour maps that accompanied the annual report of the Calcutta Botanic Garden for 1846 to illustrate how the Garden’s layout, uses and functions had changed over the previous 30 years. The evolution of the Cal... Read More about Calcutta Botanic Garden and the colonial re-ordering of the Indian environment.