Rohit Barot
Dr Rohit Barot
B.A. (Gujarat India), M.A. (Makerere, Uganda), PhD (School of Oriental and African Studies, London University)
Teaching FellowDepartment of Archaeology and Anthropology |
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Research Interests
South Asian Anthropology, social theory, modernity and social change. Migration theories and Indian diaspora in a global and transnational context. A particular focus on transformation of caste, gender and sectarian communities across the national boundaries, and, including issues which concern racism, nationalism, communalism, intergenerational relations, religion, belief and formation of identity.
Current Research
Fieldwork experience in Kampala Uganda, Berkeley California, London and Bristol UK, Ahmedabad and Vadtal, Gujarat, India.
Present research consists of interviews to document and explain the emergence of Swaminarayan groups on the Internet with a particular reference to Oxford University Bodleian Library project on Digital Shikshapatri.
Charisma, patronage and rationalization as a mode of social change in the UK-based transnational Swaminarayan organizations.
Current Teaching
Anthropology of India
Recent Publications
Bristol and the Indian Independence Movement (1988)
Religion and Ethnicity: Minorities and Social Change in the Metropolis (1993)
The Racism Problematic: Contemporary Sociological Debates on Race and Ethnicity (1996)
'Economic Migration and Social Exclusion: The case of Tunisians in Italy in 1980s and 1990s'. With F. Daly in Into the Margins: Migration and Exclusion in Southern Europe, ed. by Antheas, F & Lazaridis, G. 1999 35-53.
'Ethnicity and Religion: The Formation and Adaptation of a Hindu Community in Bristol', The Scottish Journal of Religious Studies. 20(1) 1999. 51-72.
Ethnicity, Gender and Social Change (1999, edited with Bradley and Fenton)
'Virtue, Ethics and Celibacy: A Hindu Perspective'. In Virtue, Ethics and Sociology: Issues of Modernity and Religion, ed. By Flanagan K and Jupp P. Palgrave (2000)
'Racialization: The genealogy and critique of a concept' (with John Bird). Ethnic and Racial Studies, 14 (4) July 2001, 601-618.
Chapter 10 'Religion Migration and Wealth Creation in the Swaminarayan Movement' in Bryceson and Vuorela's Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks (2002)