Before joining the School of International Development in 2008, I taught International Political Economy and Development Studies at SOAS, and was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Mysore in Karnataka, South India. I have also worked at the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex) and was active in an international social movement network from 1999-2004.

I have an MSc and PhD in Development Studies from London University's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Governance and civil society; migrant labour, agrarian change, decentralisation, social movements, microfinance; state anti-poverty programmes (social protection); critiques of neo-liberal approaches to poverty reduction;  India.

Research Groups: Politics, Governance and the State
 

Selected Publications

Pattenden, Jonathan (2012) "Migrating Between Rural Raichur and Boomtown Bangalore: Class Relations and the Circulation of Labour in South India," Global Labour Journal: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, p. 163-190. http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/vol3/iss1/8/

Pattenden, J 2011a ‘Gatekeeping as Accumulation and Domination: Decentralisation and Class Relations in Rural South India’ in Journal of Agrarian Change 11(2):164-194. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-0366.2010.00300.x/abstract

Pattenden J 2011b. ‘Social Protection and Class Relations: Evidence from Scheduled Caste Women’s Associations in Rural South India’ in Development and Change 42(2):469-498. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01696.x/abstract

Pattenden, J 2011c. ‘Forced Labor. Coercion and Exploitation in the Private Economy – Edited by Beate Andrees and Patrock Belser’ (review) in Journal of Agrarian Change 11(3):447-9. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-0366.2011.00320.x/abstract

Pattenden, J (2011d) ‘Inclusion and Exclusion in Local Governance: Field Studies from Rural India – edited by BS Baviskar and George Mathew’ (review) in Journal of South Asian Development 6:233-236. Available at: http://sad.sagepub.com/content/6/2/233.full.pdf

Pattenden, J (2010) ‘A Neoliberalisation of Civil Society? Self-Help Groups and the Labouring Class Poor’ in Journal of Peasant Studies 37(3): 485-509. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03066150.2010.494372

Pattenden J (2010b) ‘Jeffrey S. Juris, Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization’, (review) in Journal of International Migration and Integration 11(4):461-463. http://www.springerlink.com/content/3220716614jl0740/

Pattenden, J (2005), ‘Trickle-Down Solidarity, Globalisation and the Dynamics of Social Transformation in a South Indian Village’ in Economic and Political Weekly 40 (19).

Houtzager, P, with J. Pattenden (2003), ‘Coalition Building from Below’ in P. Houtzager and M. Moore (eds.) Changing Paths: International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Houtzager, P, and J. Pattenden (2000),‘Coalition Building from Below: Influencing Policy Above’ in The Journal of Social Studies 89:107-139.

Book reviews (in addition to the two listed above) for the Journals of Agrarian Change, South Asian Development and Karnataka Studies.

Reports/Policy Briefings on the Agreement on Agriculture and the Multilateral Agreement on Investment.
 

Recent Conference Papers and Seminar Presentations

Pattenden, J (2012), 'Class Compromise or Class Conflict: A Comparison of NREGS Outcomes in two North Karnataka Districts' at British Academy/University of Sussex workshop 'Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Critical Explorations of Implementation and Impact', University of Sussex, 29th of June 2012.

Pattenden, J ‘Circular Migration through boomtown Bangalore: Labor, Capital, Social Protection, and the State’ at Yale Workshop on ‘New Questions Concerning Land in India’. Yale University, New Haven, 27-29th April 2012

Pattenden, J, ‘Anti-Poverty Resources and Class Relations: Collective Action by Landless Madiga Women in Rural South India’, 25^th Conference of the British Association of South Asian Studies, University of Southampton, 11-13^th April 2011.

Pattenden, J, ‘Agricultural Labour in Boomtown Bangalore: Labour Circulation and Class Relations’, Development Studies Seminar Series, SOAS (University of London), 25^th January 2011.

Pattenden, J, ‘The Circulation of Labour between the Agricultural and Construction Sectors in Karnataka, South India’, ECMSAS Conference, Bonn, July 2010.

Pattenden, J, ‘Class Equations and Accumulation in Rural North Karnataka’, Journal of Agrarian Change Seminar Series, SOAS, February 2009.

Co-convenor, panel on ‘Social Movements and Social Movement Networks: Symbolic Acts or Transformative Processes?’ at 19^th Conference of the European Association of South Asian Studies, Leiden, June 2006.

Pattenden, J (2006), ‘The Karnataka State Farmers Association and the Political Economy of Domination and Resistance in South India’ at the 19^th Conference of the European Association for South Asian Studies, Leiden, June 2006.

Co-Director: Masters in Development Studies

Courses taught and convened:

Undergraduate:
Public Policy and Welfare
Politics and International Development
South Asian Development
Introduction to Development Studies
Development Work Experience

Postgraduate:
Contemporary World Development
Perspectives on Globalisation