{"id":277,"date":"2019-03-12T16:18:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/?page_id=277"},"modified":"2019-11-11T16:20:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T21:20:13","slug":"filippo-osella","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/filippo-osella\/","title":{"rendered":"Filippo Osella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/filippo.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-276\" src=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/filippo-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/filippo-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/filippo-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/filippo-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Filippo Osella<\/strong> is Professor of Anthropology And South Asian Studies at University of Sussex, UK.\u00a0 He has conducted extensive research in Kerala (South India), as well as in Sri Lanka, and in Gulf Cooperation Council countries such as UAE, Oman and Qatar.\u00a0 Over the years, he has researched issues concerning social mobility in the context of socio-religious reform movements and migration to West Asia (see\u00a0Osella &amp; Osella\u00a0<em>Social Mobility in Kerala: Modernity and Identity in Conflict<\/em>, Pluto Press 2000, and Osella &amp; Gardner\u00a0<em>Migration, Modernity and Social Transformation in South Asia<\/em>, Sage 2004), and the (re)production of masculine subjectivities (see Osella &amp; Osella\u00a0<em>Men and Masculinities in South India<\/em>, Anthem Press 2006, and Chopra, Osella &amp; Osella\u00a0<em>Masculinities in South Asia<\/em>, Kali for Women\/ Women Unlimited 2004).\u00a0 In his more recent research, Prof. Osella has explored the emergence of various strands of Islamic reformism in Kerala, and relationships between religious practice, politics and economic action (see\u00a0Osella &amp; Soares\u00a0<em>Islam, politics and anthropology,\u00a0<\/em>Blackwell &amp; Wiley 2010;\u00a0 Osella\u00a0 &amp; Osella\u00a0<em>Islamic reforms in South Asia<\/em>, Cambridge University Press 2012; Osella &amp; Rudnyckyj\u00a0<em>Religion and the Morality of the Market<\/em>, Cambridge University Press 2017).\u00a0 As a development of this strand of research, he has considered transformations of Islamic charity in both South India and Sri Lanka, leading to the publication of a special issue of\u00a0<em>Modern Asian Studies<\/em>\u00a0on this subject (Osella &amp; Ramaswamy\u00a0<em>Charity and Philanthropy in South Asia<\/em>, 2018).\u00a0 In his current research he is considering the configuration of trading networks and circulation of cheap commodities between China, India and West Asia, with fieldwork in Yiwu (China), Ernakulam (India) and Dubai (UAE).\u00a0 At the same time, he has recently begun fieldwork in coastal Kerala on artisanal fishers\u2019 attitudes towards risk across the whole range of their activities, and on the role of the Catholic church in supporting fishers\u2019 political and social mobilization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/interview-with-filippo-osella\/\"><strong>Our Interview with Filippo Osella<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Filippo Osella is Professor of Anthropology And South Asian Studies at University of Sussex, UK.\u00a0 He has conducted extensive research in Kerala (South India), as well as in Sri Lanka, and in Gulf Cooperation Council countries such as UAE, Oman and Qatar.\u00a0 Over the years, he has researched issues concerning social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-277","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}