Chambers, T.;
(2020)
Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans.
[Book].
Economic Exposures in Asia.
UCL Press: London.
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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.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-78735-455-5 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787354531 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787354531 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Thomas Chambers, 2020 Images © Thomas Chambers, 2020 Thomas Chambers has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as author of this work. This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work, to adapt the work, and to make commercial use of the work, provided attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Chambers, T. 2020. Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans. London, UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787354531 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to re-use any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. |
| Keywords: | migration,India,artisans,anthropology,labour,craft,Islam |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10096079 |
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