Dear colleagues,
You are warmly invited to the next online seminar in the series hosted by the Ecologies of Labour network and the Work Futures Research Group (Nottingham Trent University), this Thursday 11th April at 2pm (UK time).
Connecting extraction of soil for bricks to the everyday social reproduction of brick kiln workers in India
Pratik Mishra, Royal Holloway University of London
Brick kiln clusters situated on the periphery of Delhi's urban agglomeration produce billions of bricks every year that feed its voracious appetite for construction and repair. These bricks are produced through drawing upon the local topsoil reserves of village farmlands around the kiln clusters, as well as the labour of migrant workers drawn from far-off states in central and eastern India. My research looks at a brick kiln cluster in a village called Khanda where over 30,000 migrant workers live and work in around 60 brick kilns for eight months every year. In the seminar, I demonstrate how the appropriation of nature in the brick production process, specifically interrogating the commodified metabolism of soil in Khanda, can be seen to be dialectically linked to labouring processes and conditions of everyday social reproduction experienced by migrant brick kiln workers. The seminar draws from my PhD research as well as ongoing work on a documentary film on the same subject (delving into the landscapes of soil extraction in Khanda and its intersections with everyday lives of brick kiln workers).
Please register here: https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/xcLLiu3Ix0KBabpDig2-Lw,oWPLots-PEy5Qpez0S4F8A,Uuz58-7qY0aiT9TMpqghIQ,jVSfqea2SEG8VLDY37KEhw,ObH_bgPy1kO76YxhI7LPGQ,rUzBkxevK0mOMCgU_zjB4A?mode=read&tenantId=8acbc2c5-c8ed-42c7-8169-ba438a0dbe2f
Best wishes,
Tom
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