1st Edition
The Social Life of Skills in the Global South
Introduction: Skills, training and development: an introduction to the social life of skills in the global South
Trent Brown and Geert De Neve
1. Skilling Indigenous futures: crafts and resilience among the Paiwan people of Taiwan
Geoffrey Gowlland
2. Becoming a repair entrepreneur: an ethnography of skills training in Brazil
Liliana Gil
3. Skills in ‘unskilled’ work: a case of waste work in Central India
Advaita Rajendra
4. Skills to stay: social processes in agricultural skill acquisition in rural Karnataka
Soundarya Iyer and Nitya Rao
5. Rationalising pedagogy: what counts as skill across musical communities of practice in contemporary Istanbul
Banu Şenay and Faik Gür
6. Training for employment or skilling up from employment? Jobs and skills acquisition in the Tiruppur textile region, India
Grace Carswell and Geert De Neve
7. Hāth se sīkhna: geographies of practical learning and India’s agricultural skills agenda
Trent Brown
8. Crafting new service workers: skill training, migration and employment in Bengaluru, India
Carol Upadhya and Supriya RoyChowdhury
9. Of glass, skills and life: trade consciousness among Firozabad’s glass workers
Arnaud Kaba
10. Professionalism as a soft skill: the social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy
Aditya Ray
11. More than language: the work of an English training centre in Delhi
Abhishek Ranjan Datta
Afterword: Skill Acquisition in the Informal Sectors of the South
Kenneth King
Biography
Trent Brown is Associate Professor at Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists: Social Politics of Sustainable Agriculture in India (2018).
Geert De Neve is Professor of Social Anthropology and South Asian studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of The Everyday Politics of Labour: Working Lives in India’s Informal Economy (2005).
