Campus Directory: Judith Whitehead

University of Lethbridge

Judith Whitehead
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Expertise

South Asia, Gender, Development, Environment, Embodiment, Political Economy, Colonialism

Research Areas

Colonialism and India's Adivasis, Mumbai as Emerging Global City, Development and Displacement

Office Hours

TTh 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
TTH 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Biography

After finding that classical music had few career prospects, I decided on my other love, anthropology. My interests in anthropology have been driven by a concern to understand issues of inequality, both within and between nations, and how these are represented by various groups. I chose South Asia because many moons ago, I was struck by how 'different' it seemed to be. In the past decade, as India has globalized and perhaps become very familiar to me, (while North America seems increasingly 'strange'), I have been concerned with representations of South Asia. I believe in an anthropology that is based on the idea of 'dialogue', is participatory, and contains ourselves and others within the same universe of discourse.
My other 'love' is my Cocker Spaniel, Jason, who redefines both what it means to be 'cute' and what it means to be a 'dog.' Jason has inspired me to think dialectically about environmental issues and nature and culture interlinkages!

Judith Whitehead received her B.A. (1976) from the University of British Columbia, and her M.A. (1980) and PhD (1988) from the University of Toronto.

Research Interests

Gender and Development, Political Ecology, South Asia, Space and Place, Gender, Race and Class.

Gender, the environment and development, theory, discourse and society, anthropology of the body; South Asia

Selected Publications

Books

2010 Development and Dispossession in the Narmada Valley. NY and New Delhi: Pearson International.

2001 Of Property and Propriety: Gender and Class in Colonialism and Nationalism, ed. H. Bannerji, S. Mojab, and J. Whitehead, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Articles
2010a. (Accepted). Flexible Accumulation and Flexible Housing: Rescaling Mumbai into a Global Financial Centre and the Fate of its Working Classes. In S. Kassimir & L. Gill (ed). The Anthropology of Labour. Oxford: Bergahn Books.

2010b (Accepted). Labour, Livelihoods and Spatiality in Central Mumbai, in P. Barber, B. Leach and W. Lem (ed) Essays in Honour of Gavin Smith. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

2008a Rent Gaps, Revanchism, and Regimes of Accumulation in Mumbai. Anthropologica, 2009. Vol. 50 (2) 269-283.

2008b. The Bhils. In B.R. Johnstone (ed) Disappearing Peoples. San Francisco: Altamira Press, pp.

2008c. Local Activism and Transnational Contexts: The Struggle Against the Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat, 1998-2001. Water First: Issues and Challenges for Nations in South Asia ed. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Robert J Wasson (Sage), 2008, pp.


2005a, 'Framing Development: Occlusion of Common Property Resources in the Narmada Valley', submitted to Critique of Anthropology, 10/10/04.

2004a 'Introduction' to Desire, Transnational Prostitution, and Migration in Post-socialist Contexts, in Focaal,The European Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 43, 2; 3-29.

2004b with H. Demirdirek, (ed), Special Issue of Focaal, Vol. 43, Desire, Transnational Prostitution and Desire.

2004c(revise and resubmit) 'Bollywood Abroad: Gender, Class and Identity in Contemporary Hindi Film in the Context of Economic Liberalization', for Anthropologica.

2003a ''Bodies of Evidence, Bodies of Rule: The Age of Consent Debate in Colonial India', in S. Regge (ed), The Sociology of Gender, Delhi and London: Sage Publications.

2003b 'Space, Place and Primitive Accumulation in the Narmada Valley and Beyond', Economic and Political Weekly, Economic and Political Weekly, October 4, Vol. 38, #40, pp. 3551-3570.

2002 'Mapping History onto the Landscape: Space Against Place in the Narmada Valley', Economic and Political Weekly, April 4, Vol. 37, #4.

2001a 'Measures of Value: Change and Continuity in the Regulation of Prostitution in Madras Presidency', in H. Bannerji, S. Mojab, and J. Whitehead (ed). Property and Propriety: Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

2001b Introduction to Property and Propriety: Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

2000 More on the Sardar Sarovar Resetless: A Further Critique, in Economic and Political Weekly of India, Vol. XXXV, no. 45, Nov. 4-11, pp. 3639-3976.

1999a Statistical Concoctions and Everyday Lives: Queries from Gujarat Resettlement Sites, Economic and Political Weekly of India. Vol. XXXIV, no. 28, July 10-17, pp: 1940-1948.

1999b Community Honour/Sexual Boundies: A Discursive Analysis of the Criminalization of Devadasis in Madras, India, 1920-1947', in J. Elias, V. L. Bullough, V. Elias and J. Elders (ed). Prostitution: On Whores, Hustlers, and Johns. NY.

1998a 'Falling Between Two Stools: Epic Form and Narrative Realism in Bandit Queen', South Asia, Vol. XX, #1: 213-227.

1995b 'Bodies Clean and Unclean: Sanitation Reform, the Contagious Diseases Act, and Respectable Femininity in Colonial North Inda.' Gender and History, Volume 7, #1, pp. 41-64.

Curriculum Vitae

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