Jens Lerche

1.6k total citations
42 papers, 897 citations indexed

About

Jens Lerche is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Jens Lerche has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 897 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 17 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 14 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Jens Lerche's work include South Asian Studies and Conflicts (13 papers), Social and Economic Development in India (12 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (12 papers). Jens Lerche is often cited by papers focused on South Asian Studies and Conflicts (13 papers), Social and Economic Development in India (12 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (12 papers). Jens Lerche collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Mexico and United States. Jens Lerche's co-authors include Alpa Shah, Craig Jeffrey, Roger Jeffery, Karin Kapadia, Barbara Harriss‐White, Terence J. Byres, Liam Campling, Carlos Oya, Cristóbal Kay and Ravi Srivastava and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, British Journal of Sociology and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

In The Last Decade

Jens Lerche

39 papers receiving 791 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jens Lerche United Kingdom	16	560	289	255	159	128	42	897
Tom Brass United Kingdom	19	777 1.4×	286 1.0×	412 1.6×	170 1.1×	98 0.8×	93	1.3k
Jairus Banaji United Kingdom	15	560 1.0×	205 0.7×	170 0.7×	147 0.9×	45 0.4×	47	939
Dharam Ghai Switzerland	16	309 0.6×	263 0.9×	49 0.2×	160 1.0×	189 1.5×	67	872
Utsa Patnaik India	13	448 0.8×	131 0.5×	269 1.1×	174 1.1×	29 0.2×	55	734
Ian Blore United Kingdom	4	435 0.8×	292 1.0×	74 0.3×	48 0.3×	54 0.4×	7	877
Lionel Cliffe United Kingdom	21	521 0.9×	201 0.7×	178 0.7×	61 0.4×	43 0.3×	66	924
Issa G. Shivji Tanzania	17	455 0.8×	220 0.8×	167 0.7×	65 0.4×	19 0.1×	67	983
Raju J Das Canada	14	276 0.5×	86 0.3×	81 0.3×	88 0.6×	61 0.5×	62	541
Ward Berenschot Netherlands	18	541 1.0×	528 1.8×	71 0.3×	80 0.5×	22 0.2×	48	925
Ann Whitehead United Kingdom	14	456 0.8×	123 0.4×	306 1.2×	156 1.0×	49 0.4×	32	1.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lerche, Jens. (2025). Uttar Pradesh: BJP and the Mobilisation of Dalits and OBCs. Forum for Development Studies. 53(1). 19–28.

Lerche, Jens. (2021). The farm laws struggle 2020–2021: class-caste alliances and bypassed agrarian transition in neoliberal India. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 48(7). 1380–1396. 25 indexed citations

Shah, Alpa & Jens Lerche. (2021). Black lives matter, capital, and ideology: Spiraling out from India. British Journal of Sociology. 72(1). 93–105. 5 indexed citations

Shah, Alpa & Jens Lerche. (2020). Migration and the invisible economies of care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 45(4). 719–734. 123 indexed citations

Lerche, Jens & Alpa Shah. (2018). Conjugated oppression within contemporary capitalism: class, caste, tribe and agrarian change in India. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 45(5-6). 927–949. 74 indexed citations

Lerche, Jens, et al.. (2018). Ground Down by Growth. Tribe, Caste, Class, and Inequality in Twenty-First Century India. SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London). 8 indexed citations

Lerche, Jens, et al.. (2017). Ground down by growth: tribe, caste, class and inequality in 21st century India. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 18 indexed citations

Shah, Alpa, et al.. (2017). Ground Down by Growth. Pluto Press eBooks.

Lerche, Jens. (2015). ILO campaigns: missing the wood for the trees?. 2 indexed citations

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Jeffery, Roger, Craig Jeffrey, & Jens Lerche. (2014). Development Failure and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh. 6 indexed citations

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Byres, Terence J., Karin Kapadia, & Jens Lerche. (2013). Rural Labour Relations in India. 21 indexed citations

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Lerche, Jens, Isabelle Guérin, & Rajendu Srivastava. (2012). Special issue on labour standards in India. Global Labour Journal. 3(1). 1–190. 2 indexed citations

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Lerche, Jens. (2011). Agrarian Crisis and Agrarian Questions in India. Journal of Agrarian Change. 11(1). 104–118. 51 indexed citations

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Lerche, Jens. (2008). Transnational Advocacy Networks and Affirmative Action for Dalits in India. Development and Change. 39(2). 239–261. 33 indexed citations

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Lerche, Jens. (2007). A Global Alliance against Forced Labour? Unfree Labour, Neo‐Liberal Globalization and the International Labour Organization. Journal of Agrarian Change. 7(4). 425–452. 132 indexed citations

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Lerche, Jens. (2003). Hamlet, Village and Region: Caste and Class Differences between Low-Caste Mobilization in East and West UP. SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London). 3 indexed citations

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Lerche, Jens, et al.. (2003). Social and Political Change in Uttar Pradesh. 3 indexed citations

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Jeffrey, Craig & Jens Lerche. (2000). Stating the Difference: State, Discourse and Class Reproduction in Uttar Pradesh, India. Development and Change. 31(4). 857–878. 52 indexed citations

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Lerche, Jens. (1995). Is bonded labour a bound category? ‐Reconceptualising agrarian conflict in India. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 22(3). 484–515. 36 indexed citations

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Lerche, Jens. (1993). The Modernization of Relations of Dominance between Farmers and Artisans in Coastal Orissa. Sociological Bulletin. 42(1-2). 85–112. 2 indexed citations

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