Description
Smita Yadav is an anthropologist interested in statelessness/state, anarchy, labour, precarity, universal basic income, gender, migration, religion, secularism, poverty, indigenous knowledge, South Asia, environment, and politics of development. She has over ten years experience working as a consultant and academic on these topics in India, US, and UK. She is currently preparing a project on religion, secularism, state and development in India. She teaches Human Geography at the University of Brighton and is a Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Sussex where she completed her PhD in Anthropology. 1. Introduction: Urgent Anthropology. – 2. Local History and the Postcolonial State: The Invisibility of Gonds. – 3. Basic Income, Forests, and Anarchy. – 4. Family and Kinship: The False Binary of the Subjective and Empirical Definition of a Household. – 5. Narratives of Kamayee/Dhanda (Income): Modes of Wages. – 6. Understanding the Government Programmes in Mahalapur: Housing in Mahalapur. – 7. Conclusions.
