Donner, Henrike


Dr Henrike Donner  

Department

Position held

Department of Anthropology

Visiting Fellow

Non LSE positions held

Department

Position held

Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Goettingen

Professor for Indian Society and Culture

Experience keywords:

activism; India; Bengal; urban anthropology; gender and kinship; Naxalites; maternity; reproduction; ethnography; Kolkata; middle-class

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Dr Henrike Donner has conducted extensive fieldwork in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. Her interests include changing middle class lifestyles, gender relations, reproductive change and motherhood, urban politics and the history of the Naxalite movement in West Bengal.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

India; South Asia

Languages:

German [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream pressRadioTV

Contact Points

Publications

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2012

Donner, Henrike (2012) Between the veranda and the mall: fieldwork and the spaces of femininity. In: Pardo, Italo and Prata, Guiliana B., (eds.) Anthropology in the city: methodology and theory. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, UK, pp. 173-190. ISBN 9781409408338

Donner, Henrike (2012) Love and marriage, globally. Anthropology of this century, 4 ISSN 2047-6345

2011

Donner, Henrike, (ed.) (2011) Being middle-class in India: a way of life. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK. ISBN 9780415671675

Donner, Henrike (2011) Gendered bodies, domestic work and perfect families: new regimes of gender and food in Bengali middle-class lifestyles. In: Donner, Henrike, (ed.) Being middle-class in India: a way of life. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 47-72. ISBN 9780415671675

Donner, Henrike and De Neve, Geert (2011) Introduction. In: Donner, Henrike, (ed.) Being middle-class in India: a way of life. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 1-22. ISBN 9780415671675

Donner, Henrike (2011) Radical masculinity: morality, sociality and relationships through recollections of Naxalite activists. In: Shah, Alpa and Pettigrew, Judith, (eds.) Windows into a revolution: ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal. Social Science Press, distributed by Berghahn Books, Delhi, India. ISBN 9788187358497

Hale, Charles R. and Speed, Shannon and Chari, Sharad and Donner, Henrike (2011) Special issue: ethnographies of activism: part II, edited by Sharad Chari and Henrike Donner. Cultural dynamics, 23 (1). pp. 1-81. ISSN 0921-3740

Donner, Henrike (2011) Locating activist spaces: the neighbourhood as a source and site of urban activism in 1970s Calcutta. Cultural dynamics, 23 (1). pp. 21-40. ISSN 0921-3740

Donner, Henrike (2011) Special issue: urban classes in comparison: whose city is it anyway? Neoliberal policies, urban restructuring and class in India: a comparative approach. New perspectives on Turkey, ISSN 1305-3299

2010

Donner, Henrike (2010) Book review: globalisation and the middle classes in India: the social and cultural impact of neoliberal reforms - by Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Timothy J. Scrase. Pacific Affairs, 83 (4). pp. 814-816. ISSN 0030-851X

Chari, Sharad and Donner, Henrike (2010) Ethnographies of activism: a critical introduction. Cultural dynamics, 22 (2). pp. 75-85. ISSN 0921-3740

Chari, Sharad and Donner, Henrike (2010) Special issue: ethnographies of activism: part I, edited by Sharad Chari and Henrike Donner. Cultural dynamics, 22 (2). pp. 75-154. ISSN 0921-3740

2009

Donner, Henrike (2009) Between the verandah and the mall: fieldwork and the spaces of femininity. In: Coleman, Simon and Collins, Peter, (eds.) Dislocating anthropology?: bases of longing and belonging in the analysis of contemporary societies. Scholars Press, Newcastle, UK.

Donner, Henrike (2009) Radical masculinity: morality, sociality and relationships through recollections of Naxalite activists. Dialectical anthropology, 33 (3). ISSN 0304-4092

2008

Donner, Henrike (2008) Domestic goddesses: maternity, globalization and middle-class identity in contemporary India. Ashgate, Farnham, UK. ISBN 9780754649427

Donner, Henrike (2008) New vegetarianism: food, gender and neo-liberal regimes in Bengali middle-class families. South Asia: journal of South Asian studies, 31 (1). pp. 143-169. ISSN 0085-6401

2006

Donner, Henrike and Neeve, Geert De, (eds.) (2006) The meaning of the local: politics of place in urban India. Routledge, London. ISBN 1844721140

Donner, Henrike (2006) Reflections on gender and fieldwork in the city. In: De Neve, Geert and Unnithan-Kumar, Maya, (eds.) Critical journeys: the making of anthropologists. Ashgate, Farnham, UK, pp. 165-190. ISBN 9780754648093

Donner, Henrike and Neve, Geert de (2006) Space, place and globalisation: revisiting the urban neighbourhood in India. In: Donner, Henrike and Neve, Geert de, (eds.) The meaning of the local: politics of place in urban India. Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, pp. 1-21. ISBN 9780415596237

Donner, Henrike (2006) Committed mothers and well-adjusted children: privatisation, early-years education and motherhood in Calcutta. Modern Asian studies, 40 (2). pp. 371-395. ISSN 1469-8099

2005

Donner, Henrike (2005) Kolkata explorer: teaching social and spatial relations in urban anthropology through a digital tool. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Donner, Henrike (2005) Children are capital, grandchildren are interest : changing educational strategies and parenting in Calcutta's middle-class families. In: Assayag, Jackie and Fuller, Chris, (eds.) Globalizing India : perspectives from below. Anthem Press, London, pp. 119-139. ISBN 9781843311942

2004

Donner, Henrike (2004) The legacy of the maoists in West Bengal. London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Asia Research Centre , London, UK

Donner, Henrike (2004) Labour, privatisation and class: middle-class women’s experience of changing hospital births in Calcutta. In: Unnithan-Kumar, Maya , (ed.) Reproductive agency, medicine and the state : cultural transformations in childbearing . Berghahn Books, New York, USA, pp. 113-135. ISBN 9781571816481

Donner, Henrike (2004) The significance of Naxalbari: accounts of personal involvement and politics in West Bengal. Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Donner, Henrike (2004) Labour, privatisation and class : middle-class women's experience of changing hospital births in Calcutta. In: Reproductive agency, medicine and the state. Berghahn, Oxford, pp. 113-136. ISBN 1571816481

2003

Donner, Henrike (2003) The place of birth: childbearing and kinship in Calcutta middle-class families. Medical anthropology, 22 (4). pp. 303-341. ISSN 0145-9740

2002

Donner, Henrike (2002) One's own marriage: love marriages in a Calcutta neighbourhood. South Asia research, 22 (1). pp. 79-94. ISSN 0262-7280

1997

Donner, Henrike (1997) Gender and urbanisation in a Calcutta neighbourhood. The journal of the anthropological survey of India, 46 (1). pp. 1-44. ISSN 0970-3411

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