Conflicts in Time: Rethinking 'Contemporary' Globalisation
Lead Research Organisation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Department Name: Anthropology
Abstract
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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
(2014)
3 For labour: A jeet's accident and the ethics of technological fixes in time
in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Bear L
(2015)
Capitalist Divination
in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
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
Hodges M
(2014)
1 Immanent anthropology: a comparative study of 'process' in contemporary F rance
in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
| 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 | Conflicts in time : creative workshop, Hastings Arts Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A collaborative public workshop between artists and academics working on themes of Conflicts in Time organised by myself at Hastings Arts Forum. Led artists and academics to rethink disciplinary boundaries and develop new approaches to time. Creative collaboration with artists that reached 50-100 members of the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Conflicts in time, Hastings Arts Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An art exhibition at Hastings Arts Forum formed through creative collaboration between my own work derived from my ESRC funded research and seven artists. Developed an art exhibition over seven months that had between 100-200 visitors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | LSE Gender Institute Public Commission on Gender and Inequality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | My talk on time-insecurity and qualitative measures on inequality led to discussion that the organisers said informed subsequent conversations during the day and will influence the final commission report Participants began to consider new qualitative measures of inequality. |
| 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 | The Transnational Governance of Labour: Audit Events in a Neo-Liberal Shipyard, Ecoles Des Hautes Etudes, Paris |
| 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 | Talk at Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociale, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes, Paris that led to a European audience being exposed to my ideas on capitalism and time. I received further requests for my written materials from people who had heard the talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| 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 | Well Being and Experiences of Informality in a Hooghly Shipyard, Goldsmiths |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk at Goldsmiths Workshop on Risk, Health, Labour and Well-Being led to wide-ranging discussion of inequality and insecurity and how to analyse their effects on well-being. Created further requests for information on my written work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |