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PROF Edward Simpson's Outputs (5)

Marriage and the crisis of peasant society in Gujarat, India (2018)
Journal Article
Tilche, A., & Simpson, E. (2018). Marriage and the crisis of peasant society in Gujarat, India. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 45(7), 1518-1538. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1477759

This contribution takes marriage as the example of a crisis of production and reproduction in rural India. Through the juxtaposition of ethnography separated by six decades, we detail a shift away from land and agriculture as the primary markers of s... Read More about Marriage and the crisis of peasant society in Gujarat, India.

Memory Interventions: Gujarat and Sri Lanka (2018)
Book Chapter
Simpson, E., & de Alwis, M. (2018). Memory Interventions: Gujarat and Sri Lanka. In S. Reddy (Ed.), The Asia Tsunami and Post-Disaster Aid (253-269). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0182-7_13

This article explores some of the memorial practices that emerged after the devastating 2001 earthquake in Gujarat and the Tsunami of 2004 that decimated most of the coastal regions in Sri Lanka. In both locations, acts of memorialization were insepa... Read More about Memory Interventions: Gujarat and Sri Lanka.

An anthropologist among the transport specialists: Social science insights on the political-economy barriers to the implementation of low-carbon transport in urban South Asia and Africa (2018)
Report
Simpson, E. (2018). An anthropologist among the transport specialists: Social science insights on the political-economy barriers to the implementation of low-carbon transport in urban South Asia and Africa

Social science knowledge can be communicated to encourage transport professionals to think positively about the insights derived from qualitative research. Social science asks different kinds of questions and makes different types of connections in t... Read More about An anthropologist among the transport specialists: Social science insights on the political-economy barriers to the implementation of low-carbon transport in urban South Asia and Africa.