Rukmini Barua

Barua, Rukmini

Associate Researcher

Geschichte der Gefühle

Liebe und Arbeit in der Stadt: Romantische Liebe in Delhi, ca. 1950 bis zur Gegenwart

Postdoctoral Fellow am International Centre for Advanced Studies, New Delhi (2016)
PhD in History, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Universität Göttingen (2016)
Mphil in Soziologie, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University (2010)
M.A. in Soziologie, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University (2004)
B.A. in Soziologie, Delhi University (2002)

Monograph

In the Shadow of the Mill: Workers’ Neighbourhoods in Ahmedabad, 1920s to the 2000s, Cambridge University Press, 2022

Articles

Introduction ‘Fluid Feelings’, in L'Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 32, 2 (2021). (jointly with Alexandra Oberländer)
‘Feminine Domesticity and Emotions of Gender: Women and Work in 20^th and Early 21^st century India, in L’Homme.Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 32, 2 (2021): 59-77
'Matters of the Heart: Romance, courtship and conjugality in contemporary Delhi', International Labor and Working Class History, 97 (2020): 109-133
The Textile Labour Association and Dadagiri: Power and politics in the working-class neighbourhoods of Ahmedabad', International Labor and Working Class History, 87 (2015): 67-91.

Book Chapters

'Negotiating De-industrialisation: Emotions and Ahmedabad’s textile workers' in Agnes Arnold-Forster and Alison Moulds (eds.) Feelings and Work in Modern History: Emotional Labour and Emotions about Labour, Bloomsbury (2022): 76-95
'Legacies of Housing in Ahmedabad’s Industrial East: The Chawl and the Slum' in Felicitas Hentschke and James Williams (eds.) To be at Home: House, Work and Self in the Modern World, De Gruyter (2018):175-80