Political Cultures in South Asia
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Anthropology
Abstract
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Publications
ADHIKARI K
(2016)
New Identity Politics and the 2012 Collapse of Nepal's Constituent Assembly: When the dominant becomes 'other'
in Modern Asian Studies
Chaturvedi S
(2019)
Politics in Gorakhpur since the 1920s: the making of a safe 'Hindu' constituency
in Contemporary South Asia
Gellner D
(2014)
THE 2013 ELECTIONS IN NEPAL
in Asian Affairs
Gellner, D; Pandey, S K
Gorakhpur and 'Criminal Politics'
Hoque A
(2015)
Muslim Men in Luton, UK 'Eat First, Talk Later'
in South Asia Research
Hoque A
(2018)
Brushing with Organized Crime and Democracy: The Art of Making Do in South Asia
in The Journal of Asian Studies
Hoque Ashraf
(2019)
Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton
Hoque, A.
(2014)
'Britain's Banglatown'
in Himal Southasian
Hoque, A.
(2015)
'Does the law work in a village like Gulapbari?: An anthropological insight'.
in The University of Asia Pacific Journal of Law and Policy.
M Raj Shekhar (interview With Barbara Harriss White
(2014)
Chandasi: Close to PM Narendra Modi's constituency thrives an illegal coal market
in Economic Times
Martin N
Democracy and Disempowerment: the Case of the Indian Punjab and its Larger Implications.'
in American Ethnologist
Martin N
(2017)
Protection Rackets and Party Machines
in Asian Journal of Social Science
Martin N
(2019)
Enforcing political loyalties in local elections: an ethnographic account from Punjab
in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
Martin N
(2013)
The Dark Side of Political Society: Patronage and the Reproduction of Social Inequality
in Journal of Agrarian Change
Martin N
(2019)
Special issue: electoral fraud and manipulation in India and Pakistan
in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
Martin, N
(2015)
Democracy Subverted
Martin, N
"The Indian state as Mafia"
Martin, N.
(2015)
Rural Elites and the Limits of Scheduled Caste Assertiveness in Rural Malwa, Punjab
in EPW
Michelutti L
(2020)
Electoral manipulation and impunity: ethnographic notes from Uttar Pradesh
in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
Michelutti L
(2016)
"We Are All Chávez" Charisma as an Embodied Experience
in Latin American Perspectives
Michelutti L
(2018)
Parivar Raj (Rule of Family): The Role of Money and Force in the Making of Dynastic Authority
in Studies in Indian Politics
Michelutti Lucia
(2018)
Mafia Raj: The Rule of Bosses in South Asia
| Description | The project complements research conducted by AISMA ('An Anthropological Investigation of Muscular Politics' - funded by ERC) which mapped the relation between crime and democratic politics in South Asia. More specifically it focuses on the legal and economic aspects of cultures of popular sovereignty in six sites in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and UK (London, Tower Hamlets). Fieldwork and analysis of data for this project covered the following research spheres: Research sphere 1: 'Cultures of litigiousness' and politics. Investigators mapped out out local cultures of litigiousness and their choreographies within courts of law, from the Supreme to the Session Court level in Delhi, Dhaka and Islamabad to district courts, caste/community panchayats and informal processes of adjudication by strongmen. One of the leading research questions is: where do people get justice from? Research sphere 2: 'Mafia South Asian style': ethnographies of extra-legal forms of accumulation. We bridge political economy analysis and in depth anthropological investigations to examining the workings of a variety of il/legal economic sectors popularly referred to with the term 'mafia' - as in coal, water, sand, land, quarries, meat, oil and not the least in cinema. How do such mafia-like formations work? Who controls and regulates them? Who loses out and who gains from them? What are the implications of economic illegality for party politics? Key Findings: • There is a marked juridicialization of social and political conflicts and the simultaneous employment of legal and extra-legal systems of justice both in rural and urban settings • Justice and impunity are highly commodified • Ballooning black economies are governed by extra-legal entities. These are contexts ripe for `private protection industries ('mafias') to spring up • The mafias are at the apex of much more extensive criminal economic systems which in order to function need to be symbiotically related to formal, registered and regulated institutions and 'the political' sphere. • The 'mafias' we encountered in the field do not have long-running histories. These are often new entities that make strategic use of caste and community kinship connections and cultural idioms but are not necessarily structured by them. |
| Exploitation Route | Publications and wider dissemination in UK and India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Engagement with Dfid. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Security and Diplomacy |
| Description | - Investigators have used insights garnered from this project to transfer specialist knowledge and provide scholarly advice to legal experts dealing with Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigration and asylum cases of political nature and with ramification legal battles in London/UK courts and in France. Members of the team also engaged British, French and Belgium officers in charge of granting asylum status in their respective country. - DIFD (Department of International Development) was identified at the inception of the project as one of the main beneficiaries of our research outside academia. 'Organised crime' remains a neglected concept in the study of political corruption. Our work shows how local 'mafias' and their bosses govern corruption transactions through muscular systems of political and economic governance. Knowledge of such systems of enforcement, their organization and temporalities is crucial to understand the persistence of poor service delivery in the studied settings and beyond them. These emerging findings have been transferred via: 1) The Advisory Board: As member of the Advisory Board, Dr Evans (DFID's central Research and Evidence Division Director) directly collaborated with the team in forging stakeholders reference groups in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and connected the project with a wide range of organisations, including the World Bank, specialised anti-corruption, elections watch and transparency agencies, as well as organisations and NGOs working on conflict, corruption and violence. 2) In loco collaboration with researchers: Various members of the research team have maintained regular contacts and provide regular debriefs to DFID representatives in Delhi, Islamabad and Dhaka over the past four years. 3) Workshops: We held the first policy oriented workshop at the DFID India's office in January 2013. Relevant researchers within DFID, DFID NGO programme and UK government in Delhi were present. We had run workshops with in loco stake holders and academics in Bangladesh (Sylhet March 2015) and Pakistan (Lahore, February 2016) and planning a workshop at Dfid headquarters in London in 2016. 4) Working papers: The analysis/writing up phase of the project started in September 2014. We produced a number of Working Papers which have been circulated to the DFID team. Since the beginning of the project a bimonthly newsletter provided regular updates from the field investigators to the members of the research programme and collaborators. - ESRC project findings underpin the ERC- Poc Award (2018-2020) which developed an Ethnographically Driven Risk Analysis Framework (EDRAF) for social financing and impact investing - currently being trialed in North India. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2013 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Government, Democracy and Justice,Security and Diplomacy |
| Impact Types | Societal |
| Description | ERC Advance Grant EXTORT |
| Amount | € 2,500,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 884839 |
| Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| Description | UCL Global Challenge |
| Amount | £850 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Grand Challenges Global Health |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2016 |
| End | 12/2016 |
| Description | Village Invest: Low-cost loans for unbanked people in risky political economies |
| Amount | € 150,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | VillageInvest/780143 |
| Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 06/2018 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | King's College (University of Cambridge) 2012-2014 |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | King's College Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Seconded for two years Research Fellow Anastasia Piliviasky |
| Collaborator Contribution | Allow research and expertise in the field of crime and politics in Rajasthan |
| Impact | Edit volume with members of team by Anastasia Piliviasky - Patronage as Politics In South Asia |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | University of Madras - David Picherit |
| Organisation | University of Madras |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr David Picherit taught and presented a series of lectures during his affiliation to the Department (2012-2013) r |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided affiliation and intellectual environment for Dr David Picherit during his research in South India for the project 'Political Cultures in South Asia' |
| Impact | NA |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | University of Oslo - Arild Ruud - International Co-Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Oslo |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Cover the salary for Prof. Arild Ruud (at 25 % FTE his salary fully funded by the University of Oslo) research in the project Political Cultures in South Asia |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ruud's ethnographic expertise of Bangladesh are crucial to the project. His research responsibilities includes the coordination of staff (co-mentoring of the Post-Doctoral Researcher based in Syleth ) and impact activities in Bangladesh |
| Impact | NA |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | "Electoral adjudication and impunity in a provincial town in Western Uttar Pradesh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | discussion about election malpractices in South Asia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | - Lucia Michelutti - Mafia Raj: The Rule of Strongmen in South Asia, Lums, Lahore (Pakistan), 16th February 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of output: 'Mafia Raj'. The rule of bossism in South Asia. Team presentation. Discussion sparked questions about gender politics and impact of muscular politics on the lives of ordinary people across the subcontinent. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | A Human Democracy (Talk by A. Piliavsky, Meeting of the Cambridge Vic e-Chancellor's Circle of Advisors in Delhi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | talked was very well received and sparked discussion afterwards rise visibility of project and UK research on India in South Asia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Amid Fun & Frolic, India Serious on Ballot (media) A. Piliavsky, olumn in THE TIMES OF INDIA, 6 December 2013., p2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | rise profile of project Increased request for further information |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Arild Ruud - Blogs Blogs (all fokusindia.no, a Norwegian language blog on India and South Asia affairs) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | India, av Joar Hoel Larsen. Book review. fokusindia.no 27 January 2016 Odd-even, virker det? fokusindia.no 17 January 2016 En overraskende vending. fokusindia.no 8 December 2015 Mot normalt. fokusindia.no 3 September 2015 Modis akilleshæl. fokusindia.no 31 May 2015 Pakistan og Kina, bhai-bhai. fokusindia.no 23 April 2015 Kashmir, vårløsning eller skred? fokusindia.no 25 February 2015 Kejriwal, zindabad! fokusindia.no 10 February 2015 Obama goes to Delhi. fokusindia.no 5 February 2015 Frende er frende værst. fokusindia.no 5 January 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |
| Description | Ashraf Hoque Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | 'Bangladesh blogger killing have roots in independence struggle'. The Conversation, 13 May 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/bangladesh-blogger-killings-have-roots-in-independence-struggle-41717 |
| Description | Ashraf Hoque 'The Artist' in Mafia Raj: the rule of Strongmen in South Asia. Project Team meeting Bangladesh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Project Team meeting - Democratic Cultures - Bangladesh - engagement with local academics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Ashraf Hoque 'The Artist' in Mafia Raj: the rule of Strongmen in South Asia. Project Team meeting Bangladesh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Project Team meeting - Democratic Cultures - Bangladesh - engagement with local academics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Ashraf Hoque - Guest Speaker on Shamaj Views: 'Tower Hamlets: History, Local Politics, and Trial of Lutfur Rahman' on Betar Bangla Radio 1503AM, April 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Guest Speaker on Shamaj Views: 'Tower Hamlets: History, Local Politics, and Trial of Lutfur Rahman' on Betar Bangla Radio 1503AM, April 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/shamajviews/tower-hamlets-history-local-politics-and-trial-of-lutfur-rahman#t... |
| Description | Ashraf Hoque - Guest Speaker on Shamaj Views: 'Tower Hamlets: History, Local Politics, and Trial of Lutfur Rahman' on Betar Bangla Radio 1503AM, April 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Guest Speaker on Shamaj Views: 'Tower Hamlets: History, Local Politics, and Trial of Lutfur Rahman' on Betar Bangla Radio 1503AM, April 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/shamajviews/tower-hamlets-history-local-politics-and-trial-of-lutfur-rahman#t... |
| Description | Ashraf Hoque -Guest Speaker on Shamaj Views: 'Political Blackness and Solidarity' on Betar Bangla Radio 1503AM, February 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Guest Speaker on Shamaj Views: 'Political Blackness and Solidarity' on Betar Bangla Radio 1503AM, February 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/shamajviews/political-blackness-and-solidarity |
| Description | Ashraf Hoque, 'The Politics of Pragmatism: the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets'. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Talk at Brady Arts Centre, London, April 25 2015. Bangladeshis in Britain Conference 2015, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Ashraf Hoque, The Conversation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog Ashraf Hoque, The Conversation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://scroll.in/author/1926 |
| Description | Ashraf Hoque, The Politics of Pragmatism: the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets', SOAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, Department of Anthropology & Sociology and Department of Development Studies, Seminar Series Spring Term, January 21, 2015: |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Ashraf Hoque. Meanings of Citizenship in South Asia, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, May 28, 2015: |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 50 people attended conference. Topic: citizenship in South Asia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Barbara Harriss White - THE WILD EAST - London School of Economics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talks at the London School of Economics - about 50 persons were present. Lively discussion on the relation between politics and criminal economies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Barbara Harriss White - THE WILD EAST - Oxford University - Queen Elisabeth House |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar Talk - south Asian Seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Barbara Harriss-White on Demonetisation (Part 1) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Barbara Harriss-White on Demonetisation (Part 1) and (Part) Interview in Indian newspaper Madras Courier |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.madrascourier.com/barbara-harriss-white-on-demonetisation-part-1/ |
| Description | Blog on Bangladesh Election Campaing 2014 by Arild Ruud |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Intense Debate on the blog Increased interest in the Elections in Bangladesh |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://mygoldenbengal.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/ |
| Description | Book Launch Pondicerry French Institute (India) - Mafia Raj: the Rule of Bosses in South Asian |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Book launch Mafia Raj. The Rule of Bosses in South Asia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Clarinda Still, University of Oxford (organised by the Oxford India Society), 2nd May 2015: 'India's Daughter: attitudes towards gender based violence in India'. Presentation on 'Caste and Rape' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | University of Oxford (organised by the Oxford India Society), 2nd May 2015: 'India's Daughter: attitudes towards gender based violence in India'. Presentation on 'Caste and Rape' and participation in a panel discussion with film director, Leslee Udwin and policy maker and feminist activist, Dr Devaki Jain. Audience: approx. 300 people including journalists, students, civil society, academics. South Asian countries reported to. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Clarinda Still: 'Rape and honour: A resurgence of patriarchy across the classes and castes?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | University of East Anglia, conference Gender Relations and Rising Inequalities, 6th - 8th July 2015. Paper presentation entitled: 'Rape and honour: A resurgence of patriarchy across the classes and castes?'. Audience approx. 70 people, mainly academics but also development practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Conspiracy theories and the discourse of moral decay in Pakistan, (P. Rollier, Lahore University of Management Sciences, HSS Seminar Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | lively discussion with local academics increased interest in the research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | David Gellner - 'New Identity Politics and the 2012 Collapse of Nepal's Constituent Assembly: When the Dominant Becomes Other'; 4th Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 'New Identity Politics and the 2012 Collapse of Nepal's Constituent Assembly: When the Dominant Becomes Other'; 4th Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya. Shanker Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal; c. 200 conference attendees (mostly students and faculty from Nepal, and academics working on Nepal); Nepal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | David Gellner - Ethnogenesis and Open Borders: Reflections on Nepal's Tarai-Madhesh and What Went Wrong in India Nepal Relations'; National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru (Bangalore) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | attended by academics attached to NIAS, interested public, and some Indian civil service officers on special course at NIAS, about 70 in all; India/Nepal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | David Gellner, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; 16th Feb 2015; 'Borderlands in Northern South Asia'; Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; a |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | (1) Lecture, to students and faculty at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; 16th Feb 2015; 'Borderlands in Northern South Asia'; Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; attendance c. 120; India/Nepal |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | David Picherit - Criminal politics in South Asia. NORIA (Network of Researchers in International Affairs) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Criminal politics in South Asia. NORIA (Network of Researchers in International Affairs). Lively debate about the nature of crime in South asia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | David Picherit, Political violence and subaltern studies. Department of Anthropology Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Political violence and subaltern studies. Department of Anthropology Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France. 15 march 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | David Picherit, Strongmen in South India - Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Strongmen in South India. Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | David Picherit, The making of debt-bondage: a political perspective. Labour Market Trends in India and Youth Employment: Some Concerns |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The making of debt-bondage: a political perspective. Labour Market Trends in India and Youth Employment: Some Concerns. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | David Picherit, The making of debt-bondage: a political perspective. Labour Market Trends in India and Youth Employment: Some Concerns |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The making of debt-bondage: a political perspective. Labour Market Trends in India and Youth Employment: Some Concerns. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Divine Intervention and Political Performativity (Lucia Michelutti as leading discussant) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | sparked questions and discussion request for further information |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://venezuela-research-network.net/ |
| Description | Doing Research on 'muscular politics'. ERC, "Ethics in research - new challenges from the Social Sciences", Brussels, 26-27 November 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the ethics of doing research on powerful illegal actors. Issues of anonymisation and protection of sources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Doing ethnographic fieldwork in Pak istan - For doctoral Students (Paul Rollier) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Teaching workshop about how do to do fieldwork in Pakistan Increased interest in doing anthropological research in Pakistan |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Election Observer Nepal (2013) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article in Asian Affairs In spite of all the difficulties, the November 2013 elections in Nepal passed off for the most part peacefully and with fewer irregularities than ever before in Nepal. The electoral system was the same as the system used in 2008, with a combination of First Past the Post and Proportional Representation. The results were a defeat for the Maoists, who went from being the biggest single party to the third biggest party. The victors were the two older established parties, the Nepali Congress and the Unified Marxist-Leninists, who seem to have benefitted from the voters dissatisfaction with the Maoists' showing in government. The second big losers in the election were the parties who favoured an ethnic-based solution to Nepal's problems, though the relationship between the Madheshis and the centre remains an unsolved problem. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Governance and Maintenance of Gender Relations: A Comparative Study of Law and Society (Dhaka) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 'Governance and Maintenance of Gender Relations: A Comparative Study of Law and Society, University of Dhaka, Department of Law & The British Council, February 23, 2015: 'Brushing with Organised Crime and Democracy: the art of "making do" in South Asia' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Improvising democracy in South Asia (Panel at Annual South Asian Conference, Madison) Organizer: Lucia Michelutti and team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Notably increased the visibility of the project in USA Reported higher interest by USA colleagues |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://southasiaconference.wisc.edu/schedule/schedule.asp |
| Description | Key Note Lecture Global Studies Ahrous (Denmark): The art of bossing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Key note lecture - Discussion on organized crime and democracy. About 60 people attended the lecture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/events/247856342738397/ |
| Description | Lecture - conference - Dynastic politics in South Asia and Middle East - Zurich January 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Discussion about dynastic politics, comparison, interdisciplinary and area studies exchange |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://calenda.org/554169?formatage=print&lang=en |
| Description | Lucia Michelutti 'Theologies of protection. Desi Mafia and the 'Offer One Can't Refuse'. Seminar. Gottingen University, 6th May 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar at Gottingen University. Discussion about Mafia Indian Style and issues of security and insecurity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lucia Michelutti - - Mafia Raj: The Rule of Strongmen in South Asia, Institute of Advance Studies, UCL, 10th February 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of preliminary findings project 'South Asian political Cultures'. Questions focus on the challenges of doing research on powerful illegal actors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lucia Michelutti - Bossism in South Asia. Project team meeting. Sylhet (Bangladesh), 20-24th March 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Project team meeting in Bangladesh. Engagement with local academics and discussion about South Asian Bossism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lucia Michelutti - How to study extortion, University of Copenhagen and Dignity, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | How to study things which are supposed to stay secret? How to study extortion? The talk spark discussion on methodology and the ethics of participant observation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lucia Michelutti - Mafia Raj: The Rule of Strongmen in South Asia, FCC College, Lahore (Pakistan). 17th February 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of team project output: 'Mafia Raj': The rule of Bosses in South Asia. Lively discussion which sparked questions about the impact of the research on systems of 'criminal political' governance which affect the lives of ordinary people across South Asia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lucia Michelutti - Talk Lady Dabang. Project team meeting, Bergen, 15th June 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Writing workshop: output: Mafia Raj. The rule of bosses in South Asia. Book Manuscript |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lucia Michelutti - Talk Lady Dabang. Project team meeting, Bergen, 15th June 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Writing workshop: output: Mafia Raj. The rule of bosses in South Asia. Book Manuscript |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Lucia Michelutti The art of Bossing in South Asia. French Network for Asian Studies International Conference (FNASIC), Paris, 27 June 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The art of Bossing in South Asia. French Network for Asian Studies International Conference (FNASIC), Paris, 27 June 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Lucia Michelutti talk on Bossism. South Asian Political Thought (SAPT) Discussion Group. Department of International Development, Oxford, 05 March 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | South Asian Political Thought (SAPT) Discussion Group. Department of International Development, Oxford, 1 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Media Briefings: http://www.dhak atribune.com/search/ node/arild%20engelsen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Rise profile of project and our research Reported higher interest from colleagues and public |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.dhakatribune.com/search/node/arild%20engelsen |
| Description | Nicolas Martin -Rural Elites and the Limits of Scheduled Caste assertiveness in rural Malwa, Punjab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent, Belgium, 21st of February 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Nicolas Martin, 'Private Greed versus the Public Good in the Indian Punjab' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented at workshop on 'Public Authority, Sovereignty and Violent Contestation in South Asia' in Ghent, Belgium, 11-12 June 2015 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Oltre la corruzione: la politicizazione dei criminali nel nord dell'India oggi. By Lucia Michelutti, Department of Political Science, University of Trieste, 10 June 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | lively discussion on crime and politics in South Asia Plans for future research activity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://webnews.units.it/allegati/Loc%20Ieraci%2010giu.pdf |
| Description | Panel at Development Studies Association Conference Oxford - September ' Bossism in South Asia' organised by Lucia Michelutti and Barbara Harriss-White |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 'The art of bossing': the impact of muscular politics on everyday lives across South Asia Author: Lucia Michelutti (University College London) email Short Abstract Presentation book manuscript 'Mafia Raj': The rule of Bosses in South Asia' by Lucia Michelutti, Ashraf Hoque, Nicolas Martin, David Picherit, Paul Rollier, Aril Ruud and Clarinda Still. Long Abstract Through 'the figure of the boss', we map out ethnographically how bosses and aspiring bosses rule; their statecraft techniques and contingent legitimaties across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. We highlight local spheres of criminality and their relations (or autonomy) with formal politics in seven settings. In the talk we argue that a focus on the 'de facto' micro-dynamics of (criminal) power (rather than on 'state effects' and 'discourse of corruption') unravels how bosses exercise control over people's lives; the systems of intimidation and uncertainty they create; and help to shed light on the opportunities and fantasies of power that such systems forge. In particular we focus on the impacts of bossism on the everyday lives of citizens and discuss how and why 'Mafia Raj' regimes remain largely uncontested and go hand in hand with competitive electoral democracies and high level of popular political participation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.nomadit.co.uk/dsa/dsa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4585 |
| Description | Paul Rollier "The social life of earthquakes in South Asia", as part of "Conference HSG Awareness Nepal" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | • type: presentation to general public • date: 21st May 2015 • title: "the social life of earthquakes in South Asia", as part of "Conference HSG Awareness Nepal". • place: University of St Gallen (Switzerland) • type of audience: scientific community, students • number of guests: 40 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Paul Rollier : "The vanishing wrestler: illegality and criminal mediation in urban Pakistan" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | • type: presentation to general public • date: Jan. 8th 2015 • title: "The vanishing wrestler: illegality and criminal mediation in urban Pakistan" • place: Center for the Study of Pakistan Seminar Series, SOAS (University of London). • type of audience: scientific community, students • number of guests: a few dozens |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Paul Rollier, Group presentation on 'Muscular Politics' in South Asia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | • type: presentation to general public • date: 17 Feb. 2016 • title: Group presentation on Muscular Politics in South Asia • place: Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan • type of audience: scientific community • number of guests: 30 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Paul Rollier, Group presentation on 'Muscular Politics' in South Asia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | • type: presentation to general public • date: 16 Feb. 2016 • title: Group presentation on 'Muscular Politics' in South Asia • place: Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan • type of audience: scientific community • number of guests: 25 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Paul Rollier, Law, land, words: the attack on Joseph Colony in Lahore (Conference on Urbanism, Exclusion and Change in South Asia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | • type: presentation to general public • date: March 6th 2016 • title: Law, land, words: the attack on Joseph Colony in Lahore (Conference on Urbanism, Exclusion and Change in South Asia) • place: Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan • type of audience: scientific community • number of guests: 30 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Paul Rollier, Of blasphemy and arson: violence against Christians in contemporary Pakistan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | • type: presentation to general public • date: Nov 2, 2015 • title: Of blasphemy and arson: violence against Christians in contemporary Pakistan • place: Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway • type of audience: scientific community,students • number of guests: 30 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Paul Rollier, Presentation on India as part of the 'Transcultural Management and the BRICS' conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | • type: presentation to general public • date: 3rd Oct. 2015 • title: presentation on India as part of the 'Transcultural Management and the BRICS' conference • place: University of St Gallen, Switzerland • type of audience: scientific community, industry, policy makers • number of guests: 40 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Paul Rollier, Presentation on social marginalization of Christians and Shias in Pakistan, for a group of French and Belgium officers in charge of granting asylum status in their respective country. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | • type: presentation • date: 26 Feb. 2016 • title: Presentation on social marginalization of Christians and Shias in Pakistan, for a group of French and Belgium officers in charge of granting asylum status in their respective country. • place: OFPRA (Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides) • type of audience: policy makers • number of guests : 15 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Paul Rollier, Sectarian conflict and Shia identities in Pakistan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | • type: presentation to general public • date: 19 Nov. 2015 • title: Sectarian conflict and Shia identities in Pakistan • place: Observatoire de l'Afghanistan et du Pakistan, Direction Générale des Relations Internationales et de la Stratégie, France. • type of audience: scientific community, policy makers • number of guests: 15 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Paul Rollier, Sectarianism and the politics of Shii ritual in contemporary Pakistan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | • type: presentation to general public • date: 3rd nov. 2015 • title: Sectarianism and the politics of Shii ritual in contemporary Pakistan • place: Asia Network, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway. • type of audience: scientific community, civil society, policy makers • number of guests: 20 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Politics and the identity among Punjabi Shias History and anthropology of Muslim societies in Contemporary South Asia (Paul Rollier)Institut d'ét udes de l'Islam et d es sociétés du monde musulman, EHESS, Paris |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | talked sparked questions and discussion aftewards Interest in the topic |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentation 'Competing visions of Muslim identity in contemporary Pakistan' (Paul Rollier, Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | talk sparked questions and discussion Increased request about information about research findings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Presentation 'Election Crimes in India' - By Lucia Michelutti University of Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | talked spared questions and discussion after all on the role of organized crime in Indian politics and in particular elections Interest from other colleagues and press |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentation 'What is democracy' By A. Ruud, Barisal University, Bangladesh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lively discussion Increased interest in the project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentation of project (Political Cultures in South Asia) By Lucia Michelutti, University of Hyderabad |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Share information about rise of criminal politics in South asia Collaboration with local academics and activists |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentation of project and discussion with Dfid India New Delhi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Research collaboration with Dfid India on everyday violence and gender and the relation between business and poltiics Interest from Dfid Bangladesh and Dfid Pakistan |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Presentation: Muscular citizenship and election complains (By Lucia Michelutti Lisbon, European South A sian Association,Portugal) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Present preliminary project results on UP election 2012 Plans made for future research activity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easas/ecsas2014/downloads/ecsas2014.pdf |
| Description | Project Presentation 'Muscular Politics in India' - Centre for Social Development (CDS), Hyderabad |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Shared information about our research on culture of litigiousness and politics in South Asia with academic and law practitioners Increased interest in our research and further collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Project Seminar Series - Democratic Cultures - (organizer Lucia Michelutti) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This 10-week Seminar Series is a public open event which engages the research team with South Asian academics and stakeholders Rise visibility of the project and dissemination of our results |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/news-and-events/seminar-series/democratic-cultures |
| Description | Sovereignty and kinship across India and Venezuela. Invited Talked (Lucia Michelutti).Doing Politics Making Kinship, International workshop, Free Berlin University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on kinship and politics Increase in request for further information |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.ethnologie.uni-bayreuth.de/de/news/Doing-Politics---Makin-Kinship/Doing-politics-making-k... |
| Description | Talk by Ashraf Hoque Ashraf Hoque: "The Politics of Pragmatism: local elections in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets" and Sanjay Kumar: "Electoral malpractices in Indian Election: Evidences from recent Assembly Elections. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | As above |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Talk By Lucia Michelutti Doing ethnographies across Areas Studies (South Asia and Latin America). Social Sciences and Area Specialisation in Research Methods Teaching: Linking Research and Teaching Practice, University of Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | discussion on comparative research and methodology Further request of information |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Talk and workshop on Myth and Criminality - Transgresser, manœuvrer, héroïser : Fabrique des violences économiques et politiques organized by David Picherit and Lucia Michelutti- Nanterre Univeristy Paris |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Transgresser, manœuvrer, héroïser : Fabrique des violences économiques et politiques Presenters and papers: Michelutti Lucia, UCL - Picherit David CNRS - LESC Gangster Heroes: Myth Scripting in South Asia LamotteMartin, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, Paris, Les fils de Carlos : Histoire d'une sanctification gangster? Bathaïe Azita, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IDEMEC, LabexMed << Ce ne sont pas mes héros ! >>. La fabrique du héros national afghan et les problèmes de légitimation dans la période de (re)construction Rollier Paul, University of St. Gallen Blasphemy and the production of religious difference in Pakistan: Mumtaz Qadri Hoque Ashraf, University College of London The heroic self-made man: the mastaan in Bangladesh Debos Marielle, Institut de Sciences Politiques, Université Paris Nanterre Governing the inter-war in Chad: impunity and 'unnumbered decrees' in the margins of the war |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://calenda.org/386777?file=1 |
| Description | Talk by Ashraf Hoque The Politics of Pragmatism: the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets - UCL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Politics of Pragmatism: the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.soas.ac.uk/migrationdiaspora/seminarsevents/seminarseries/21jan2015-the-politics-of-prag... |
| Description | Talk by Lucia Michelutti 'Mafia Raj: The rule of bosses in South Asia' - seminar - Sussex University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk with academics and post graduate students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://freeuniversitybrighton.org/events/mafia-raj-the-rule-of-bosses-in-south-asia/ |
| Description | Talk by Lucia Michelutti 'The age of the boss' - Madison University South Asian Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk about role of charisma and personalistic politics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Talk by Paul Rollier - University of Olso |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Title of lecture: Religious Belonging in Pakistan: Ritual, language, and the production of 'minorities' Sectarian attacks, Islamist militancy and the marginalization of Pakistan's religious minorities are often understood as proceeding from an undue emphasis on Sunni Islam at the heart of Pakistani nationalism. Mainstream analyses tend to privilege a top-down, security-orientated view of religious formations that conceal much of the everyday processes and reasoning through which ordinary Pakistanis come to think about and perform religious belonging. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/events/1721491234808304/ |
| Description | Talk: Beyond Corruption. The politicization of criminals in North India (by L. Michelutti, at the workshop: Corruption, Governance and Political Ethics: Mapping Research in the UK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Interest in crime and politics in South Asia and current comparative project funded by ESRC helped to set up a research group on Corruption, Crime and Politics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.psa.ac.uk/events/corruption-governance-and-political-ethics-mapping-research-uk |
| Description | Talks by David Picherit: "Like a drug - Fun, hope and violence in Andhra Pradesh elections" Clarinda Still & Srinivas Dusi: "Vote-buying in elections in rural South India" 14.20; Nicolas Martin: "A 'Two Track' democracy? Violence and coercion in Punjab Block Samiti elections" Satendra Kumar: "Elections and political imagination: The culture of political participation in a North Indian village"; Shashank Chaturvedi, David N. Gellner and Sanjay Kumar Pandey: "The evolution of politics in Gorakhpu |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on electoral malpractices in South Asia - presenting project results |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | The ethics of illega lity and criminal intermediations in the old city of Lahore Criminal Interediation in Pakistan (Paul Rollier - Seminar by P. R ollier Sciences Po-CERI, Paris) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | increased interest in an almost understudy topic (low level criminality in Pakistan) Reported higher interest in the research results |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Venezuela after Chavez: ethnographic perspectives on the past, present and future of Bolivarianism. (as leading discussant) at SLAS (Society for Latin American Studies), Conference, Birkbeck College |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Enhance discussion of the legacy of President Hugo Chavez Increase in request for further information |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://nomadit.co.uk/slas/slas2014/book/SLAS2014_book.pdf |
| Description | Workshop - Caste and Kinship - Gottingen Indan Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of relation between kinship and caste - discussion about possible new project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Workshop Organizer Mafia(s) and Politics in South Asia (Lucia Michelutti and team). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Very lively debate Higher interest on the relation between organized crime and politics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easas/ecsas2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2459 |
| Description | seminar The popular culture of illegality in South Asia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on popular culture of illegality Amsterdam |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.uva.nl/shared-content/subsites/centre-for-urban-studies/en/events/conferences/2018/10/the... |