Dr. Katy Gardner

Biography

Katy Gardner is a Professor in the Anthropology Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She trained at Cambridge and worked at the University of Sussex from 1993 to 2013 before joining LSE. Her work focuses on issues of globalization, migration, and economic change, particularly in the context of Bangladeshi transnational communities in the UK. Katy's doctoral research conducted in the 1980s examined the transformations associated with overseas migration from the village of Sylhet, resulting in the publication of 'Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh' (OUP 1995). Katy has a strong interest in the relationship between anthropology and development, which is reflected in her book 'Anthropology, Development and the Post-modern Challenge' (Pluto Press, 1996) and its revised edition 'Anthropology and Development: Twenty-First Century Challenges' (Pluto Press 2015). Her longstanding research in Bangladesh includes fieldwork among Bangladeshi communities in the UK, leading to the monograph 'Age, Narrative and Migration: Life Course and Life Histories of Bengali Elders in London' (Berg, 2002). Recently, her research has focused on couples' counseling, marriage mediation, divorce, and precarity in Bangladesh, with articles published on these topics in various journals.

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