Roger Jeffery (University of Edinburgh)

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Roger Jeffery
Professor of Sociology of South Asia and
Convenor of the Centre for South Asian Studies
Centre for South Asian Studies
C/o Department of Sociology
University of Edinburgh
18 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh, EH8 9LN
Scotland, UK

phones: +44-131-650-3976
FAX:    +44-131-650-3989
email: R.Jeffery@ed.ac.uk

description of work:

I have been involved in sociological research in India and Pakistan since
1970. Major topics of interest include health and health policy, based on
research trips to Lahore and Delhi, and on consultancies in Orissa and
Pakistan; social demography and rural change in Bijnor District, Uttar
Pradesh; communal politics and schooling. I recently co-held a research
grant to study Joint Forest Management Agreements in India (Gujarat, MP,
Orissa and AP). My linguistic skills are in Hindi (spoken and slow
reading) and Urdu (only spoken). 

My recent publications include: 

Books

1996: Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: Don't Marry Me to a Plowman:
Women's Everyday Lives in Rural North India (Westview Press, Boulder Co.)

1997: Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery: Population, Gender, and
Politics: Demographic Change in Rural North India (Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge).

Edited Books

1996: Roger Jeffery and Alaka Basu (eds) Girls' Schooling, Women's
Autonomy and Fertility Change in South Asia 339 pp. (Sage, New Delhi,
London and California.)

1998: Roger Jeffery (ed.) The Social Construction of Indian Forests
(Manohar, Delhi and CSAS, Edinburgh)

1999: Roger Jeffery and Nandini Sundar (eds) A New Moral Economy for
India's Forests? (Sage, New Delhi, London and California)

Articles in Books and Learned Journals

1996: Roger Jeffery "Toward a political economy of health care:
Comparisons of India and Pakistan" in Lincoln Chen, Monica Das Gupta and
T. N. Krishnan (eds) Health and Development in India, Oxford University
Press, Delhi.

1996: Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: "What's the Benefit of Being
Educated? Girls Schooling, Women's Autonomy and Fertility Outcomes in
Bijnor", in Roger Jeffery and Alaka Basu (eds): Girl's Schooling, Women's
Autonomy and Fertility Change in South Asia, Sage, New Delhi and Newbury
Park, California, pp. 150-183.

1996: Roger Jeffery and Alaka Basu: "Schooling as Contraception" in Roger
Jeffery and Alaka Basu (eds): Girl's Schooling, Women's Autonomy and
Fertility Change in South Asia, Sage, New Delhi, pp. 15-47.

1996: Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: "Delayed Periods and Falling
Babies: the Ethno-physiology and Politics of Pregnancy Loss in Rural North
India", in Rosanne Cecil (ed.): The Anthropology of Pregnancy Loss, Berg
Publishers, Oxford

1996: Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: "Post-modernity, Asian medical
systems and Gender" (Basham Medal Lecture) Proceedings of 4th
International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine (Tokyo, 18-21 August
1994), pp. 93-98

1997: Roger Jeffery "Introduction" in Roger Jeffery (ed.) The Social
Construction of Indian Forests, Manohar, Delhi, and Centre for South Asian
Studies, Edinburgh. 

1997: Roger Jeffery "Women and work in Indian Forests" Proceedings of the
workshop held at Keio University in Tokyo, March.

1998: Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: "Gender, Community and the Local
State in Bijnor", in Patricia Jeffery and Amrita Basu (eds) Appropriating
Gender: Women's Activism and Politicised Religion in South Asia
(Routledge, New York; under a different title, reprinted by Kali for
Women, New Delhi)

1998: Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery: "Silver Bullet or Passing Fancy?
Girls' Education and Population Policy" in Feminist Visions of
Development: Gender Analysis and Policy (ed.) Cecile Jackson and Ruth
Pearson, (Routledge, London).

1999: Nandini Sundar & Roger Jeffery: "A New Moral Economy for India's
Forests?" in Roger Jeffery & Nandini Sundar (eds) A New Moral Economy for
India's Forests? (Sage, New Delhi, London and Newbury Park, Calif.)