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Professor Peggy Froerer
Professor of Anthropology

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Froerer, P. (2025) 'Education, Aspiration and Social Mobility: Uncertain Futures for Rural Youth in India'. London, UK: Berghahn. ISSN 13: 978-1-83695-281-7

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Ansell, N., Froerer, P. and Huijsmans, R. (2022) 'Young People’s Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future?'. Sociological Research Online, 27 (4). pp. 795 - 802. ISSN: 1360-7804 Open Access Link

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Froerer, P., Ansell, N. and Huijsmans, R. (2022) 'Sacrifice, suffering and hope: education, aspiration and young people’s affective orientations to the future'. Ethnography and Education, 17 (3). pp. 179 - 185. ISSN: 1745-7823 Open Access Link

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Froerer, P. and Dost, A. (2021) 'Education, Aspiration and aage badhna: The Role of Schooling in Facilitating ‘Forward Movement’ in Rural Chhattisgarh, India'. European Journal of Development Research, 33 (1). pp. 109 - 129. ISSN: 0957-8811 Open Access Link

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Froerer, P. (2021) 'Poverty and Education', in Allen, T. and Thomas, A. (eds.) Poverty and Development in the 21st Century. Oxford : Oxford University Press. pp. 145 - 165. ISBN 13: 978-0-19-956324-1.

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Ansell, N., Froerer, P., Huijsmans, R., Dungey, C., Dost, A. and Piti. (2020) 'Educating 'surplus population': uses and abuses of aspiration in the rural peripheries of a globalising world'. Fennia - International Journal of Geography, 198 (1-2). pp. 17 - 38. ISSN: 0015-0010 Open Access Link

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Huijsmans, R., Ansell, N. and Froerer, P. (2020) 'Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations'. European Journal of Development Research, 33 (1). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 0957-8811 Open Access Link

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Ansell, N., Froerer, P. and Huijsmans, R. (2018) 'The representation of occupations in school'. Place of publication: Brunel. Available at: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/pdf/Education-aspiration/Policy-brief-Representing-Occupations-1.pdf.Open Access Link

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Ansell, N., Froerer, P. and Huijsmans, R. (2018) 'Innovating in rural education'. Place of publication: Brunel University London. Available at: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/pdf/Education-aspiration/Policy-brief-Innovating.pdf.Open Access Link

Report

Ansell, N., Froerer, P. and Huijsmans, R. (2018) 'Rural children's access to the content of education'. Place of publication: Brunel. Available at: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/pdf/Education-aspiration/Policy-brief-Content-of-Education-1.pdf.Open Access Link

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Ansell, N., Froerer, P. and Huijsmans, R. (2018) 'The roles of rural teachers'. Place of publication: Brunel University London. Available at: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/pdf/Education-aspiration/Policy-brief-Roles-of-rural-teachers.pdf.Open Access Link

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Froerer, P. (2017) 'Poverty and Education in Rural Chhattisgarh', in Parry, J. and Gooptu, N. (eds.) Persistence of Poverty in India. Abingdon and New York : Routledge. pp. 173 - 203. ISBN 10: 9383166045. ISBN 13: 9789383166046. Open Access Link

Book chapter

Froerer, P. (2016) 'Questions and Curiosities, Ignorance and Understanding: Ethnographic Encounters with Children in Central India', in Allerton, C. (ed.) Children Ethnographic Encounters. London : Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 87 - 99. ISBN 10: 1474258182. ISBN 13: 978-1474258180.

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Froerer, P. (2015) 'Adivasi young people and the risk of education in rural Chhattisgarh'. South Asian History and Culture, 6 (3). pp. 365 - 379. ISSN: 1947-2498

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Froerer, P. (2012) 'Learning, livelihoods and social mobility: Valuing girls' education in central India'. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 43 (4). pp. 344 - 357. ISSN: 0161-7761

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Froerer, P. and Portisch, A. (2012) 'Introduction to the Special Issue: Learning, livelihoods and social mobility'. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 43 (4). pp. 332 - 343. ISSN: 0161-7761

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Froerer, P. (2011) 'Children's moral reasoning about illness in Chhattisgarh, central India'. Childhood: a global journal of child research, 18 (3). pp. 367 - 383. ISSN: 0907-5682

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Froerer, P. (2011) 'Education, inequality and social mobility in central India'. European Journal of Development Research, 23 (5). pp. 695 - 711. ISSN: 0957-8811

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Froerer, P. (2011) 'Anthropology and learning', in Jarvis, P. and Watts, M. (eds.) The Routledge international handbook of learning. London : Routldege. pp. 367 - 375. ISBN 10: 0415571308. ISBN 13: 978-0415571302.

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Froerer, P. (2010) 'Book review: Educational failure and working class white children in Britain'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16 (1). pp. 170 - 171. ISSN: 1359-0987

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Froerer, P. (2010) 'Christian piety and the emergence of Hindu nationalism in central India', in Robinson, R. and Kujur, JM. (eds.) Margins of Faith: Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India. New Delhi : Sage. ISBN 10: 8132104676. ISBN 13: 9788132104674.

Book chapter

Froerer, P. (2010) 'Close friends: the importance of proximity in the formation of friendship in Chhattisgarh, India', in Killick, E. and Desai, A. (eds.) The Ways of Friendship: Anthropological Perspectives. Oxford : Berghan Books. ISBN 13: 978-1-84545-731-0.

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Froerer, P. (2009) 'Activists and adivasis: Hindu nationalist militants in Chhattisgarh, Central India', in Gellner, DN. (ed.) Ethnic Activism and Civil Society in South Asia. Sage Publications Pvt Ltd. , 2. pp. 57 - 80. ISBN 10: 8132100867. ISBN 13: 9788132100867.

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Froerer, P. (2009) 'Kinship and childrearing in India', in Shweder, RA. (ed.) The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 10: 0226475395. ISBN 13: 978-0226475394.

Book chapter

Froerer, P. (2009) 'Ethnographies of childhood and childrearing'. Reviews in Anthropology, 38 (1). pp. 3 - 27. ISSN: 0093-8157

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Froerer, P. (2007) 'Religious division and social conflict: the emergence of Hindu nationalism in rural India'. New Delhi, India: Social Science Press. ISSN 10: 8187358270 ISSN 13: 978-8-18735-827-5

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Froerer, P. (2007) 'Disciplining the saffron way: Moral education and the Hindu rashtra'. Modern Asian Studies, 41 (5). pp. 1033 - 1071. ISSN: 0026-749X

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Froerer, P. (2007) 'Wrongdoing and retribution: Children's conceptions of illness causality in a central Indian village'. Anthropology and Medicine, 14 (3). pp. 321 - 333. ISSN: 1469-2910

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Froerer, P. (2006) 'Emphasising 'Others': The emergence of Hindu nationalism in a central Indian tribal community'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 12 (1). pp. 39 - 59. ISSN: 1359-0987

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Froerer, P. (2005) 'Challenging traditional authority: The role of the state, the divine and the RSS'. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 39 (1). pp. 39 - 73. ISSN: 0069-9667

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