Unplanned Rivers: the Unintended Impacts of Environmental Governance on Labour, Consumption and Social Identities on the Hooghly
Lead Research Organisation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Department Name: Anthropology
Abstract
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People |
ORCID iD |
| Laura Bear (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Bear L
(2011)
Making a river of gold
in Focaal
Bear L
(2014)
Capital and time: uncertainty and qualitative measures of inequality.
in The British journal of sociology
Bear L
(2015)
Capitalist Divination
in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Bear L
(2014)
3 For labour: A jeet's accident and the ethics of technological fixes in time
in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Bear Laura
(2015)
Navigating Austerity: Currents of Debt along a South Asian River
Bear, L
(2015)
Remaking the Public Good: For a New Anthropology of Bureaucracy
in Cambridge Social Anthropology
Bear, L
(2013)
Vital Relations: the persistant life of kinship
Bear, L C
(2013)
Elusive Promises: Planning in the Contemporary World
| Title | Kolkata riviera |
| Description | One of four ethnographic films addressing livelihoods, uncertainty and time on the Hooghly river. Shown at a public film showing at L.S.E. in May 2010 and at exhibition at Hastings Arts Forum March 2011. Also shown at Persistence/Resistence Indian Documentary Film Festival held across the University of London in November 2011. In addition I have used these films in regular teaching on a first year undergraduate course (AN102) on ethnographic methods and forms of representation since 2010. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Audiences at all three events, and undergraduates on AN102, have stated in discussions and written comments that the films have changed their perspectives on key issues. |
| Title | Love boat for hire |
| Description | One of four ethnographic films addressing livelihoods, uncertainty and time on the Hooghly river. Shown at a public film showing at L.S.E. in May 2010 and at exhibition at Hastings Arts Forum March 2011. Also shown at Persistence/Resistence Indian Documentary Film Festival held across the University of London in November 2011. In addition I have used these films in regular teaching on a first year undergraduate course (AN102) on ethnographic methods and forms of representation since 2010. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Audiences at all three events, and undergraduates on AN102, have stated in discussions after the film and in written comments that the films have altered their perspectives on key issues. |
| Title | Ma ganga navigation |
| Description | One of four ethnographic films addressing livelihoods, uncertainty and time on the Hooghly river. Shown at a public film showing at L.S.E. in May 2010 and at exhibition at Hastings Arts Forum March 2011. Also shown at Persistence/Resistence Indian Documentary Film Festival held across the University of London in November 2011. In addition I have used these films in regular teaching on a first year undergraduate course (AN102) on ethnographic methods and forms of representation since 2010. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Audience members at all three events, and undergraduates taught at LSE, have stated in discussions after film viewings and in written comments that it has altered their perspective. |
| Title | The burning of the stomach |
| Description | One of four ethnographic films addressing livelihoods, uncertainty and time on the Hooghly river. Shown at a public film showing at L.S.E. in May 2010 and at exhibition at Hastings Arts Forum March 2011. Also shown at Persistence/Resistence Indian Documentary Film Festival held across the University of London in November 2011. In addition I have used these films in regular teaching on a first year undergraduate course (AN102) on ethnographic methods and forms of representation since 2010. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Impact | Audiences at all three events, and undergraduates in AN102, have stated in discussions after the films and in written comments that they have changed their perspectives on key issues. |
| Description | Financialised Res Publica in Maritime Economies, University of Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | My talk at a workshop on Infrastructure at CRESC at the University of Manchester has led to my inclusion in a network of researchers associated together on this theme. I have been asked to be an expert advisor on an ERC/ESRC funded project on new road infrastructures in South Asia, led by Ed Simpson at SOAS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Making a river of gold, L.S.E. |
| 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 | Paper presented at the 'Waterscapes, labour and uncertainty : crossing the boundaries of urban and rural technonature' workshop, held at London School of Economics and Political Science. After arranging this workshop and presenting at it a network of scholars working on waterscapes was formed. We still exchange research findings in 2014. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | On the Sacredness of Labour in a Liberalisation Shipyard, Stanford University |
| 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 | I gave a departmental seminar at Stanford University that led to many subsequent requests for written copies of my articles etc. After my talk, I formed a network of scholars addressing issues of anthropology and economy along with Stanford faculty across US academia. We are now co-authoring a manifesto on this that will be published in Cultural Anthropology's, Theorising the Contemporary Series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Publicity, Friendship and Public-Private Partnerships on the Hooghly, Yale University |
| 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 | My presentation led to subsequent questions and discussion, and further requests from post graduate students, fellows and faculty for written versions of my work. I was drawn into conversations about liberalisation and planning with graduate students and faculty at Yale, especially in the South Asia Program. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Rethinking Subaltern Labour, Department of History, Warwick University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | My talk led to conversations and questions around interdisciplinary work between anthropology and history on the theme of labour I received further requests for published versions of my work from faculty and students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | This Body is Our Body: Labour and Life in a Hooghly Shipyard, University of Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | My talk led to many questions and engaged debate with faculty and students attending the department of anthropology seminar at the University of Edinburgh After my talk I received an increased level of requests for my published work from faculty and students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | This Body is Our Body: the Social Debts of Kinship and Ritual in a Liberalisation Shipyard, School for Advanced Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | My participation over five days at this intensive workshop with other prominent international scholars led to further requests for copies of my published work. After my talk, I drafted a research article that was subsequently published in the SAR book series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Timescapes and Labor on the Hooghly, University of Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | My talk in the anthropology department seminar at the University of Manchester generated many questions and discussion among faculty and students I have been asked to provide further details of my work in published form and to take part in a prestigious annual pubic debate on anthropology, which is subsequently published. In this key intellectual issues are explored that are central to the discipline. This will be in Winter 2015 on the theme of labour. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Towards Micro-Insurance Strategies for the Urban Informal Sector," UNICEF/UNDP, Kolkata |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented on the health and well-being issues faced by informal workers in Kolkata to a group of NGO and UNICEF policy makers. My findings on resilience and the potential dissemination of micro-insurance through schools enabled many interesting questions and debates about how to improve the situation of the urban poor in South Asia. After my talk UNICEF asked me to send on my published work and to stay in contact about future research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Viswakarma Puja and Theologies of Materiality in a Neo-Liberal Shipyard, Cambridge University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | My talk in the Anthropology Department seminar at Cambridge University led to discussion on themes of materiality and debt. After my talk, faculty asked for written versions of my talk to use in teaching of graduate and undergraduate students at Cambridge |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | https://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1072224 |
| Description | Waterscapes, labour and uncertainty, Interdisciplinary Workshop, L.S.E. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was an interdisciplinary event designed to forge new approaches to waterscapes. It generated many new research questions that the participants continue to pursue to date. A research network was formed so we can regularly update each other on our work on the themes of waterscapes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |