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)
South Asia; agrarian political economy; rural labour relations; governance and developmentContact Details
- Name:
- Dr Jens Lerche
- Email address:
- jl2@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4505
- Address:
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 295
- Office Hours:
- Thursday 2 - 4
Interests / Disciplines
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. He has researched extensively in northern India and Nepal, with particular interests in agrarian change, rural labour relations, and state institutions and development.Teaching
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. Libraby of Peasant Studies, 18. London: Frank Cass.
Chapters in Books
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 (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.
