Bear, Laura

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  • Langley, Paul, Ashenden, Samantha, Barry, Andrew, Bear, Laura, Kelly, Ann, McGoey, Linsey J., Molyneux, Maxine, Neyland, Daniel, Parry, Bronwyn & Tonkiss, Fran et al (2023). Nigel Dodd: an appreciation. Economy and Society, 52(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2023.2157584
  • McKee, Martin, Altmann, Danny, Costello, Anthony, Friston, Karl, Haque, Zubaida, Khunti, Kamlesh, Michie, Susan, Oni, Tolullah, Pagel, Christina & Pillay, Deenan et al (2022). Open science communication: The first year of the UK's Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies. Health Policy, 126(3), 234-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.01.006 picture_as_pdf
  • Michie, Susan, West, Robert, Pidgeon, Nick, Reicher, Stephen, Amlôt, Richard, Bear, Laura (2021). Staying ‘Covid-safe’ proposals for embedding behaviours that protect against Covid-19 transmission in the UK. British Journal of Health Psychology, 26(4), 1238 - 1257. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12557 picture_as_pdf
  • Simpson, Nikita, Angland, Michael, Bhogal, Jaskiran K., Bowers, Rebecca, Cannell, Fenella, Gardner, Katy, Lohiya, Anishka, James, Deborah, Jivraj, Naseem & Koch, Insa et al (2021). Good and ‘bad’ deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a rapid qualitative study. BMJ Global Health, 6(6). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005509 picture_as_pdf
  • Mathur, Rohini, Bear, Laura, Khunti, Kamlesh, Eggo, Rosalind M (2020). Urgent actions and policies needed to address COVID-19 among UK ethnic minorities. The Lancet, 396(10266), 1866 - 1868. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32465-X
  • Bear, Laura (2020). Speculations on infrastructure: from colonial public works to a postcolonial global asset class on the Indian Railways 1840-2017. Journal of the Korean Statistical Society, 49(1), 45 - 70. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2020.1702416 picture_as_pdf
  • Bear, Laura (2020). Speculation: a political economy of technologies of imagination. Economy and Society, 49(1), 1 - 15. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2020.1715604 picture_as_pdf
  • Venkatesan, Soumhya, Bear, Laura, Harvey, Penny, Lazar, Sian, Rival, Laura M., Simone, AbdouMaliq (2018). Attention to infrastructure offers a welcome reconfiguration of anthropological approaches to the political. Critique of Anthropology, 38(1), 3-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X16683023
  • Bear, Laura (2017). ‘Alternatives’ to austerity: a critique of financialized infrastructure in India and beyond. Anthropology Today, 33(5), 3-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12376
  • Bear, Laura (2017). Anthropological futures: for a critical political economy of capitalist time. Social Anthropology, 25(2), 142 - 158. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12412
  • Bear, Laura (2016). Time as technique. Annual Review of Anthropology, 45(1), 487-502. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030159
  • Bear, Laura, Mathur, Nayanika (2015). Introduction: remaking the public good: a new anthropology of bureaucracy. Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 33(1), 18-34. https://doi.org/10.3167/ca.2015.330103 picture_as_pdf
  • Bear, Laura (2015). Capitalist divination: popularist-speculators and technologies of imagination on the Hooghly River. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 35(3), 408-423. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-3426265
  • Bear, Laura, Birla, Ritu, Puri, Stine Simonsen (2015). Speculation: futures and capitalism in India: opening statement. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 35(3), 387-391. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-3426241
  • Bear, Laura (2014). Doubt, conflict, mediation: the anthropology of modern time. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20(S1), 3 - 30. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12091
  • Bear, Laura (2014). For labour: Ajeet's accident and the ethics of technological fixes in time. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20(S1), 71 - 88. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12094
  • Bear, Laura (2013). The antinomies of audit: opacity, instability and charisma in the economic governance of a Hooghly shipyard. Economy and Society, 42(3), 375-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2013.791509
  • Bear, Laura (2011). Making a river of gold: speculative state promises and personal promises in the post-liberalisation governance of the Hooghly. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 61(Winter), 46-60. https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2011.610104
  • Bear, Laura (2001). Public genealogies : documents, bodies and nations in Anglo-Indian railway family histories. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 35(3), 356-388. https://doi.org/10.1177/006996670103500303
    • Book
  • Bear, Laura (2020). Special Issue: Economy and Society. Taylor and Francis.
  • Bear, Laura (2015). Navigating austerity: currents of debt along a South Asian river. Stanford University Press.
  • Bear, Laura (Ed.) (2014). Special issue: Doubt, conflict, mediation the anthropology of modern time. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Bear, Laura (2007). Lines of the nation: Indian railway workers, bureaucracy and the intimate historical self. Columbia University Press.
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  • Allen, Tim, Simpson, Nikita, Renda, Andrea, Dann, Chris, Besley, Timothy, Bear, Laura, Pöllänen, Elin, Osika, Walter, Allen, Tim, Berglöf, Erik (2021). Pandemic governance: reflections from the pan-European PERISCOPE Project. In Group of Nations G20 + COP26 Global Leaders Briefing Report (pp. 74-77). CAT Company Publications.
  • London School of Economics Department of Anthropology’s Covid and Care Research Group (2020). Changing care networks in the United Kingdom. In Eckert, A. & Hentschke, F. (Eds.), Corona and Work around the Globe (pp. 103 - 110). Walter de Gruyter & Co.. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110718249-014 picture_as_pdf
  • Bear, Laura (2013). "This body is our body": Viswakarma Puja, the social debts of kinship, and theologies of materiality in a neo-liberal shipyard. In Cannell, F. & McKinnon, S. (Eds.), Vital Relations: Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship . School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.).
  • Bear, Laura (2012). Sympathy and its boundaries: necropolitics, labour and waste on the Hooghly river. In Alexander, C. & Reno, J. (Eds.), Economies of Recycling: the Global Transformation of Materials, Values and Social Relations (pp. 185-203). Zed Books.
  • Bear, Laura (2009). The homecoming of globalisation: politics and consumption among international call centre workers in Kolkata. In Kapila, K. & Gupta, A. (Eds.), Making a Living: Livelihoods, IMAgination and Globalisation in India . Oxford University Press / Duke University Press.
  • Bear, Laura, Carolin, Clare, Pollock, Griselda, Sidén, Ann Sofi, Haynes, Cathy (2008). The politics of display: Ann-Sofisidén's warte MAl!, art history and social documentary. In Macdonald, S. & Basu, P. (Eds.), Exhibition Experiments (pp. 154-174). Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Bear, Laura (2007). Ruins and ghosts: the domestic uncanny and the materialisation of Anglo-Indian genealogies. In Carsten, J. (Ed.), Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness (pp. 36-57). Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
  • Bear, Laura (2006). An economy of suffering: Addressing the violence of discipline in railway workers' petitions to the agent of the East Indian Railway, 1930-47. In Rao, A. & Peirce, S. (Eds.), Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism (pp. 243-272). Duke University Press.
  • Bear, Laura (2005). School stories and the interior frontiers of citizenship: tracing the domestic life of Anglo-Indian education. In Bénéë, V. (Ed.), Manufacturing Citizenship: Education and Nationalism in Europe, South Asia and China (pp. 236-266). Routledge.
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  • Leaders Unlocked (2022). Youth-led visions for change: guidance for policy informed by young people's experiences of the pandemic. Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Bear, Laura, Simpson, Nikita, Bazambanza, Caroline, Bowers, Rebecca, Kamal, Atiya, Gheewala Lohiya, Anishka, Pearson, Alice, Vieira, Jordan, Watt, Connor, Wuerth, Milena (2021). Social infrastructures for the post-Covid recovery in the UK. Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Bear, Laura, Simpson, Nikita, Angland, Michael, Bhogal, Jaskiran K., Bowers, Rebecca, Cannell, Fenella, Gardner, Katy, Lohiya, Anishka, James, Deborah & Jivraj, Naseem et al (2020). 'A good death' during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK: a report on key findings and recommendations. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Bear, Laura, James, Deborah, Simpson, Nikita, Alexander, Eileen, Bazambanza, Caroline, Bhogal, Jaskiran K., Bowers, Rebecca, Cannell, Fenella, Lohiya, Anishka & Koch, Insa et al (2020). A right to care: the social foundations of recovery from Covid-19. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Kamal, Atiya, Bear, Laura (2003). Community Champions policy: key principles and strategic implications for recovery from Covid-19. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
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  • Bazambanza, Caroline, Bear, Laura, Bowers, Rebecca, Lohiya, Anishka, Simpson, Nikita, Vieira, Jordan, Watt, Connor, Wuerth, Milena (14 July 2021) Stretched during COVID, Britain’s social infrastructure needs an urgent boost. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Bear, Laura, Simpson, Nikita, Vieira, Jordan, Watt, Connor, Whittle, Catherine (29 October 2020) Covid and care: how a ‘stacked’ care system could help places like Hackney. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Bear, Laura, Pearson, Alice, Simpson, Nikita, Vicol, Dora Olivia, Whittle, Catherine (29 October 2020) Covid and care: how to make job support schemes better. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
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