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Craig Jeffrey

Entrenched Problems in Sexual Violence

Vol - XLVIII No. 02, January 12, 2013 | Craig Jeffrey

The gruesome gang rape of a young woman on a bus in Delhi on 16 December 2012 has provoked a public firestorm in India and has raised urgent questions about how to improve women’s security in the country. As the editorial “Understanding the Incomprehensible” (EPW, 29 December 2012) pointed out, the Indian government should avoid a knee-jerk response and develop policy that will help tackle gender inequality in urban and rural India.

The details of the tragic event are now well known. The young woman died from her injuries on 30 December 2012.

Making Ends Meet

Youth Enterprise at the Rural-Urban Intersections
Vol - XLVII No. 30, July 28, 2012 | Stephen Young and Craig Jeffrey

Much of the scholarship associated with the "urban turn" in south Asia has focused on the upper middle class or the poor. This study examines social change through the lens of interstitial places and populations. In particular, it focuses on young men who find themselves "in-between" in multiple senses: between youth and adulthood, the rich and poor, and the rural and urban. This "in-betweenness" shapes how they navigate a changing economic and institutional landscape. It also shows how the forms of enterprise they engage in stitch together the rural and urban in new ways.