Prof Katy Gardner

Katy Gardner's doctoral research examined the cultural and social changes associated with international migration and globalisation in Bangladesh, resulting in her monograph Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh (OUP 1995). Katy is also interested in the relationship between anthropology and development, especially in recent critiques of development as 'discourse'. Her book Development, Anthropology and the Post-modern Challenge (Pluto Press, 1996; with David Lewis) reflects both the theoretical and practical issues arising from this relationship. More recently she has extended her interest in the Bengali diaspora through fieldwork conducted amongst Bengali elders in East London. Her monograph, Age, Narrative and Migration: The Life Course and Life Histories amongst Bengali Elders in London (Berg, 2002) analyses the elders' narratives of migration, ageing and illness in the UK, and suggests that transnational migration can be usefully understood as a gendered and embodied experience. As part of her on-going interest in transnational migration, Katy has published an edited collection on Transnational Migration and Household Ritual (Special Edition of Global Networks, 2002; with Ralph Grillo). She has also edited a collection that draws together current work on migration within South Asia (Migration and Modernity in South Asia, Sage, 2004; with Filippo Osella). More recently, she researched the relationship between internal seasonal migration and overseas migration in a project funded by the Development Research Centre in Migration, Poverty and Globalisation at Sussex. In 2006 she received funding from the AHRC, as part of its Migration, Identities and Diaspora Programme, for research on transnational South Asian children. This project involved arts based methods as well as more conventional interviewing and participant observation, and culminated in an exhibition of children's art, held at the Museum of Childhood in Spring, 2009 (see: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7898294.stm>)

Since 2008 Katy has also been working on a project funded by ESRC/Dfid on Mining, Livelihoods and Social Networks in Bangladesh. This has involved returning to her original fieldwork village in Bangladesh, where a multinational company is currently mining natural gas. The project investigates the relationships between transnational migration, global capitalism and resistance, plus multinational policies and practices of 'Corporate Social Responsibility'.

See Katy's website : http://katygardner.co.uk/

Recent DPhil Students
Zahir Ahmed - Knowledge, Risk and Power: Agriculture and Development Discourse in a Coastal Region of Bangladesh (awarded 2002)
Kanwal Mand - Gendered Places, Transnational Lives: Sikh Women in Tanzania, India and Britain (awarded 2003)
Israt Ahmed - The Construction of Childhood in Monipur: Negotiating Boundaries through Activities (awarded 2004)
Nick Nisbett - Knowledge, Identity, Place and (Cyber) Space: Growing Up Male and Middle Class in Bangalore (awarded 2005)
Laura Griffith - Experiencing Motherhood, problems and the construction of post natal depression in Tower Hamlets  (awarded 2006)Rozana Rahsheed - Livelihoods and Social Protection in a Migrant village in Comilla, Bangladesh (2008)

Current DPhil Students

Ramy Aly - Arab Identity in London
Benji Zeitlyn - Code Switching and Translation amongst British Bengali children in London

Sadid Nuremowla: Mining and Resistance in Bangladesh

Gardner, Katy (2013) Migration. In: The handbook of sociocultural anthropology. Bloomsbury Academic, London. ISBN 9781847883841

Gardner, Katy (2012) Transnational migration and the study of children: an introduction. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 38 (6). pp. 889-912. ISSN 1369-183X

Gardner, Katy (2012) Discordant development: global capitalism and the struggle for connection in Bangladesh. Anthropology, culture and society . Pluto Press, London. ISBN 9780745331508

Gardner, Katy (2012) My Away is Here: Place, Empowerment and Mobility amongst British Bengal Children. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. ISSN 1369-183X

Gardner, Katy (2010) Migration and the Life Course: Some Bangladeshi cases. Journal of South Asian Development Studies.

Gardner, Katy (2009) Lives in Motion: The Life-Course, Movement and Migration in Bangladesh. Journal of South Asian Development, 4 (2). pp. 229-251. ISSN 0973-1741

Gardner, Katy and Ahmed, Zahir (2009) Degrees of separation: informal social protection, relatedness and migration in Biswanath, Bangladesh. Journal of Development Studies, 45 (1). pp. 129-149. ISSN 0022-0388

Gardner, Katy (2008) Keeping connected: security, place, and social capital in a `Londoni' village in Sylhet. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 14 (3). pp. 477-495. ISSN 1359-0987

Osella, Filippo and Gardner, Katy, eds. (2004) Migration, modernity and social transformation in South Asia. Contributions to Indian Sociology . Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi. ISBN 9780761932093

Gardner, Katy and Osella, Filippo (2003) Migration, modernity and social transformation in South Asia : an overview. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 37 (1&2). v-xxviii. ISSN 0069-9667

Grillo, Ralph (2002) Transnational Households and Ritual. Global Networks, 2 (3). pp. 179-262. ISSN 1470-2266

Gardner, Katy (2002) Age, Narrative and Migration : The life course and life histories of Bengali elders in London. Berg. ISBN 9781859733134

Gardner, Katy (2002) Death of a migrant : transnational death rituals and gender among British Sylhetis. Global Networks, 2 (3). pp. 191-204.

Gardner, Katy (1999) Location and Relocation: Home 'The Field' and anthropological ethics (Sylhet Bangladesh). In: Being There. Pluto Press, 49 - 73. ISBN 9780745314976

Gardner, Katy (1999) Narrating Location: Space, Age and Gender among Bengali Elders in East London. Oral History Migration, 27 (1). 65 - 74.

Gardner, Katy (1998) Women and Islamic Revivalism in a Bangladeshi Community. In: Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia. Zones of Religion . Routledge, 203 - 220. ISBN 9780415918664

Gardner, Katy (1997) Mixed Messages: Contested 'Development' and the 'Plantation Rehabilitation Project'. In: Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives. Berg Publishers, 133 - 156. ISBN 1-85973-940-7