Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211005495
Keya Bardalai
The article explores how retail workers envision and pursue aspirations for social mobility through employment in Delhi malls. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation, this study examines how retail store employees cultivate professional occupational identities as a way of distancing themselves from informal and manual workers and claim a new class identity. The article also shows how workers come to view the job as dhoka (deceit), once they experience humiliation and disrespect at the hands of customers and managers and realise that such employment does not allow them to transcend their social class positions. However, they continue to stay on in these demeaning jobs because they believe that employment in the new service economy is their best option. By exploring retail workers’ narratives of majboori (constraint or compulsion) in this context, the article unpacks their contradictory experiences of work in the service sector and sheds light on youth aspirations and mobility strategies in post-liberalised India.
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{"title":"Book review: Amita Baviskar. 2020. Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi","authors":"Ajay Immanuel Gonji","doi":"10.1177/00699667211002426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667211002426","url":null,"abstract":"Amita Baviskar. 2020. Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi. New Delhi: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd. (with YODA Press, New Delhi). 300 p. Bibliography, figures, glossary, illustrations, index. ₹1,195 (hardback).","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/00699667211002426","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43051828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211002424
Chandan Bose
Brahma Prakash. 2019. Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. xvi + 332 pp. Bibliography, index. Rs 1195 (hardback).
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211010062
S. Patnaik
{"title":"Obituary: Vinay Kumar Srivastava: A memoir (3 December 1952–23 December 2020)","authors":"S. Patnaik","doi":"10.1177/00699667211010062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667211010062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/00699667211010062","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44615388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211006776
Gideon Thomas Mathson
The COVID-19 lockdown was a frenetic period for inmates of the night shelters in Delhi. The difficulty in maintaining employment, social distancing, sanitation, safety measures and sanity that were regarded as critical factors could not be ensured. Yet, it was apparent that the residents’ experiences during this time varied, and their lives were differentially affected by the pandemic. The following piece presents glimpses from encounters with the residents of these night shelters that took place soon after the lockdown.
{"title":"II: Perspectives on the lockdown from Delhi’s night shelters","authors":"Gideon Thomas Mathson","doi":"10.1177/00699667211006776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667211006776","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 lockdown was a frenetic period for inmates of the night shelters in Delhi. The difficulty in maintaining employment, social distancing, sanitation, safety measures and sanity that were regarded as critical factors could not be ensured. Yet, it was apparent that the residents’ experiences during this time varied, and their lives were differentially affected by the pandemic. The following piece presents glimpses from encounters with the residents of these night shelters that took place soon after the lockdown.","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/00699667211006776","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44817654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0069966720973168
M. Strathern
This article draws on a turn of events in the speaker’s long association with Papua New Guinea in the Pacific. Pacific Island academics have made it clear that anthropologists should be explicit about ‘knowledge exchange’. Knowledge transfers take innumerable forms; in the case of the anthropologist, however, it often seems that expert knowledge is more taken than given. Thinking comparatively about academic practice, is there any future for potential ‘exchanges’ as forms of interdisciplinarity, say, or of argument between points of view? The article takes the concept of an academic argument to ask about its counterparts in non-academic milieux of knowledge-making in one part of the Pacific.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0069966720980791
Ronie Parciack
Yogesh Snehi. 2019. Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab: Dreams, Memories, Territoriality. London and New York: Routledge. xx + 256 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. £115.00 (hardback).
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211000900
Rita Brara
{"title":"Discussant’s comment I: Give-and-take of knowledge exchanges: Comments on ‘What’s in an argument?’","authors":"Rita Brara","doi":"10.1177/00699667211000900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667211000900","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/00699667211000900","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45755498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0069966720976509
P. Berger, R. Hardenberg
{"title":"Obituary: Georg Pfeffer (17 January 1943–20 May 2020)","authors":"P. Berger, R. Hardenberg","doi":"10.1177/0069966720976509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966720976509","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0069966720976509","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44841920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0069966720976501
T. Patel, L. Lobo
{"title":"Obituary (I): A tribute to A. M. Shah (22 August 1931–7 September 2020)","authors":"T. Patel, L. Lobo","doi":"10.1177/0069966720976501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966720976501","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0069966720976501","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41996020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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