Dr Penny Vera-sanso
Senior Lecturer
Department of Geography
Birkbeck University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Penny lectures in Development Studies and is Director of the Social Anthropology programme. She joined Birkbeck in 2001. She was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (1998-2001), a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Canterbury, Kent (1994-1998), taught anthropology at Goldsmiths College (1988-90; 1992-93) and in the Department of Extra-Mural Studies, London University (1986-88). She has a BA (Hons) in Anthropology and Geography from University College London (1985) and a PhD in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths (1994). Alongside her academic career Penny has founded two housing co-operatives in north London.
Research Interest
Globalisation, consumption, rights and intergenerational resource flows Globalisation, labour market, informal economy and older workers
Publications
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Vera-Sanso, P and C Sweetman (2009) ‘Introduction’– as Expert Guest Editor of special issue Ageing and Generations, Gender & Development 17(3) p365-376
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Vera-Sanso, P (2012) Gender, Poverty and Old Age, in Urban South India in an Era of Globalisation, Oxford Development Studies, 40, 3, pp 324-340
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Harriss-White, B, W Olsen, P Vera-Sanso and V Suresh (2013) The Impact of Shocks on Workers in Urban Slums in South India, Economy and Society 43, 3, pp 398-429
