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- Title: Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans
- Author : Thomas Chambers
- Release Date : January 30, 2020
- Genre: Anthropology,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 31827 KB
Description
Networks, Labour and
Migration Among Indian Muslim Artisans provides an ethnography of life, work and migration in a
North Indian Muslim-dominated woodworking industry. It traces artisanal
connections within the local context, during migration within India, and to
the Gulf, examining how woodworkers utilise local and transnational networks,
based on identity, religiosity, and affective circulations, to access resources,
support and forms of mutuality. However, the book also illustrates how
liberalisation, intensifying forms of marginalisation and incorporation into
global production networks have led to spatial pressures, fragmentation of
artisanal labour, and forms of enclavement that persist despite geographical
mobility and connectedness.
By working across the
dialectic of marginality and connectedness, Thomas Chambers thinks through
these complexities and dualities by providing an ethnographic account that shares everyday life with artisans and others in the industry. Descriptive
detail is intersected with spatial scales of ‘local’, ‘national’ and
‘international’, with the demands of supply chains and labour markets within
India and abroad, with structural conditions, and with forms of change and
continuity. Empirically, then, the book
provides a detailed account of a specific locale, but also contributes to
broader theoretical debates centring on theorisations of margins, borders,
connections, networks, embeddedness, neoliberalism, subjectivities, and
economic or social flux.
Praise for Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans
'A revealing book. In addition to its usefulness as a critical survey of the theoretical and historical models currently in use to understand artisanship in contemporary India and elsewhere, and the ethnographic detail it offers of the Indian woodworking industry, by insisting on the local and the particular as its unit of analysis it offers a challenge to universalising accounts of the experience of contemporary South Asian artisans.'
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