Objetivo In recent decades India has experienced exceptionally high economic growth rates, becoming one of the world’s fastest growing major economies. Yet, the redistribution of the fruits of economic growth – the trickle down effects of growth – have been negligible for vast swathes of India’s population, most of who live in the countryside. The demographics of the poor are starkly socially marked. Economists tell us that India’s dalit and adivasi communities, who account for almost 25% of the country’s population and were historically seen as ‘untouchable’ and ‘savage’, suffer from disproportionate levels of poverty, remaining worse off than other groups almost everywhere across the country. But econometric analysis is unable to tell us how and why this is the case. This project uses an innovative anthropological approach to understand the processes by which poverty is reproduced through agrarian relations and the shift from farm-based social and economic hierarchies towards new forms of power and exploitation off the farm which lead to the persistence of dalit and adivasi marginalisation across India. Informed by recent statistical research and policy shifts at the national and state levels, this project will craft a more critical and powerful alternative to poverty measurements by ethnographically exploring the relationship between political and economic transformations in rural-based dalit and adivasi lives, and the transformations taking place at the macro level. It thus establishes a new methodological field which structures ethnography in the framework of political economic theory and brings this combination to the centre of understandings of poverty. It will provide the first historically situated ethnographic studies which are comparative, not only in their regional distribution, but also in their underlying theoretical and methodological bases. Ámbito científico ciencias agrícolasagricultura, silvicultura y pescaagriculturahorticulturafruticultura Programa(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Tema(s) ERC-SG-SH2 - ERC Starting Grant - Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour Convocatoria de propuestas ERC-2012-StG_20111124 Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoria Régimen de financiación ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant Coordinador LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Dirección Houghton street 1 WC2A 2AE London Reino Unido Ver en el mapa Región London Inner London — West Westminster Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Investigador principal Alpa Shah (Dr.) Contacto administrativo David Coombe (Mr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window Aportación de la UE € 1 282 213,02 Beneficiarios (3) Ordenar alfabéticamente Ordenar por aportación de la UE Ampliar todo Contraer todo LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Reino Unido Aportación de la UE € 1 282 213,02 Dirección Houghton street 1 WC2A 2AE London Ver en el mapa Región London Inner London — West Westminster Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Investigador principal Alpa Shah (Dr.) Contacto administrativo David Coombe (Mr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES ROYAL CHARTER Reino Unido Aportación de la UE € 129 247,38 Dirección Thornhaugh street russel square WC1H OXG London Ver en el mapa Región London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Tony Doherty (Mr.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Reino Unido Aportación de la UE € 88 539,60 Dirección Wellington square university offices OX1 2JD Oxford Ver en el mapa Región South East (England) Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Oxfordshire Tipo de actividad Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contacto administrativo Linda Pialek (Mrs.) Enlaces Contactar con la organización Opens in new window Sitio web Opens in new window
