Dr Jens Lerche
MA, PhD (Copenhagen)
Overview
Department of Development Studies
Senior Lecturer in Development Studies
Centre of South Asian Studies
Member, Centre of South Asian Studies
SOAS Food Studies Centre
Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre
Labour, Movements and Development
Research Cluster Convenor
Agrarian Change and Development
Research Cluster Member
Neoliberalism, Globalisation, and States
Research Cluster Member
- Name:
- Dr Jens Lerche
- Email address:
- jl2@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4505
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 295
- Office Hours:
- Monday 10-12
- On Sabbatical:
- Term 3 2012-13
Biography
Jens has an MA and PhD in Geography from the Centre for Development Research in Copenhagen, but sees himself more as a sociologist than a geographer. His research interests include labour and the ILO, and labour, agrarian relations and caste in India and he has researched extensively in northern India. Recent publications include articles on work hierarchies and social mobilisation and on agrarian transition and agrarian crisis an Indian context, and analysis of tensions in the social protection agenda. He is editor of the Journal of Agrarian Change. His present research is on labour conditions and the working poor in India and China, funded by the ECRS and DFID.Teaching
Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
Research
Jens has researched extensively in northern India and Nepal, with particular interests in agrarian change, rural labour relations, and state institutions and development. In 2000-2002 he took leave from the School to act as Governance Advisor for the Great Lakes (Africa) region in the Department for International Development (DFID) of the UK government, in which capacity he was centrally concerned with post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction in Rwanda.
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Available for
- Briefings
- Short Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
- South Asia
Country Expertise
- India
Languages
Publications
Edited Books
Jeffery, R and Lerche, J, eds. (2003) Social and Political Change in Uttar Pradesh. Manohar (India).
Byres, T.J. and Kapadia, Karin and Lerche, Jens, eds. (1999) Rural Labour Relations in India. London: Frank Cass. (Libraby of Peasant Studies)
Book Chapters
Lerche, Jens (2010) 'From ‘Rural Labour’ to ‘Classes of Labour’: Class Fragmentation, Caste and Class Struggle at the Bottom of the Indian Labour Hierarchy.' In: Harriss-White, Barbara and Heyer, Judith, (eds.), The Comparative Political Economy of Development. Africa and South Asia. London: Routledge, pp. 66-87. (Routledge studies in development economics, 77)
Lerche, Jens and Jeffery, R. (2003) 'Uttar Pradesh: Into the Twenty-First Century.' In: Lerche, J. and Jeffery, R., (eds.), Social and Political Change in Uttar Pradesh. European Perspectives. New Delhi: Manohar, pp. 17-53.
Lerche, Jens (2003) 'Hamlet, Village and Region: Caste and Class Differences between Low-Caste Mobilization in East and West UP.' In: Lerche, J. and Jeffery, R., (eds.), Social and Political Change in Uttar Pradesh. European Perspectives. New Delhi: Manohar, pp. 181-198.
Lerche , Jens (2000) 'Dimensions of Dominance: Class and State in Uttar Pradesh.' In: Fuller, C.J. and Bénéï, V., (eds.), The Everyday State and Society in Modern India. Delhi: Social Science Press, pp. 91-114.
Articles
Lerche, Jens (2012) 'Labour Regulations and Labour Standards in India: Decent Work?' Global Labour Journal, 3 (1). pp. 16-39.
Lerche , Jens and Guérin, Isabelle and Srivastava, Ravi (2012) 'Guest editors' introduction.' Global Labour Journal, 3 (1). pp. 1-15.
Lerche, Jens (2011) 'Agrarian Crisis and Agrarian Questions in India.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 11 (1). pp. 104-118.
Lerche , Jens (2008) 'Is Forced Labour an Isolated Problem in Developing Countries?' Development Viewpoint (8).
Lerche, Jens (2008) 'Transnational Advocacy Networks and Affirmative Action for Dalits in India.' Development and Change, 39 (2). pp. 239-261.
Lerche, Jens (2007) 'A Global Alliance against Forced Labour? Unfree Labour, Neo-Liberal Globalization and the International Labour Organization.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 7 (4). pp. 424-52.
Lerche, Jens (2000) 'Stating the Difference: State, Discourse and Class Reproduction in Uttar Pradesh, India.' Development and Change, 31, no. 4 . pp. 857-87.
Lerche, Jens (1999) 'Politics of the poor: Agriculture Labourers and Political Transformations in North India.' pp. 182-241.
Kapadia, Karen and Lerche, Jens (1999) 'Introduction.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 26 (2/3). pp. 1-9.
Lerche, Jens (1998) 'Agricultural Labourers, the State and Agrarian Transition in Uttar Pradesh.' Economic and Political Weekly, 33 (13). A29-A35.
Lerche, Jens (1997) 'Is Bonded Labour a Bound category? Reconceptualising Agrarian Conflict in India.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 22 (3). pp. 484-515.
Monographs
Lerche, Jens and Pincus , Jonathan and Weeks, John (2004) Poverty Reduction Strategy Process and National Development Strategies in Asia: A Report to DFID. Project Report. London: Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS University of London.
