Trent Brown

Skill ecosystems in the global South: Informality, inequality, and community setting

T Brown

Journal article  |  2022  |  Geoforum

The concept of ‘skill ecosystems’ considers how contextual and institutional factors shape the acquisition and utilisation of skil..

Hath se sikhna: geographies of practical learning and India's agricultural skills agenda

Trent Brown

Journal article  |  2022  |  THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY

A significant challenge of skill development in the Global South is providing meaningful opportunities for practical learning. Whi..

Transgressive Capabilities: Skill Development and Social Disruption in Rural India

Trent Brown, Syed Shoaib Ali

Journal article  |  2022  |  ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS

Under what conditions might the acquisition of new skills challenge discriminatory social norms? We interrogate this question thro..

Indian Education Policy and the Hybrid State

Amanda Gilbertson, Trent Brown

Presentation  |  2021

Australia India Institute Research Fellows Seminar Series, University of Melbourne, September 20.

I am the people: reflections on popular sovereignty today

Trent Brown

Journal article  |  2021  |  ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW

Hāth se Sīkhna: Geographies of Practical Learning and India’s Agricultural Skills Agenda

Trent Brown

Presentation  |  2021

Presented at ‘The Social Life of Skills’ online workshop (convened by Trent Brown and Geert De Neve), University of Melbourne, 5-7..

Pathways to Agricultural Skill Development in the Indian Himalayas

Trent Brown

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT

Policymakers and practitioners in the field of skill development often carry individualist and narrowly instrumental understanding..

Globalised dreams, local constraints: migration and youth aspirations in an Indian regional town

Trent Brown, Timothy J Scrase, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase

Book Chapter  |  2020

Hungry Nation

Trent Brown

Journal article  |  2020  |  ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW

When food regimes become hegemonic: Agrarian India through a Gramscian lens

Trent Brown

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE

The concept of food regimes, as developed by Friedmann and McMichael, has proven useful in analysing how systems of food productio..