Donner, Henrike. 2008. Domestic Goddesses: Maternity, Globalisation and Middle-Class Identity in Contemporary India. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0754649427
Edited Book
Bhattacharya, Bhaswati and Donner, Henrike, eds. 2021. Globalising Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367178529
Donner, Henrike, ed. 2011. Being Middle-Class in India: A Way of Life. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415671675
Donner, Henrike and De Neve, Geert, eds. 2006. The Meaning of the Local: Politics of Place in Urban India. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415596237
Edited Journal
Donner, Henrike and Goddard, Victoria, eds. 2023. Special Issue: Kinship and the Politics of Responsibility, Critique of Anthropology, 43(4). 0308-275X
Donner, Henrike and Santos, Goncalo, eds. 2016. Special Issue: Comparative Perspectives on Love and Marriage in India and China, Modern Asian Studies, 50(4). 0026-749X
Donner, Henrike and De Neve, Geert, eds. 2015. Special Issue: Revisiting Urban Property in India, Journal of South Asian Development, 10(3). 0973-1741
Donner, Henrike and Chari, Sharad, eds. 2010. Special Special Double Issue: Ethnography and Activism, Cultural Dynamics, 22(2). 0921-3740
Book Section
Dhawan, Nandita Banerjee and Donner, Henrike. 2025. Against the odds: Gendered politics of labour, infrastructure, and claim-making in Kolkata鈥檚 poor localities. In: Aishika Chakraborty and Nandita Banerjee Dhawan, eds. Gendered Bodies and Social Exclusions: Contemporary Issues in Women's Studies. Delhi: Routledge, pp. 129-151. ISBN 9781032234717
Donner, Henrike. 2025. Rhythms of Endurance: Homing as infrastructural labour in Kolkata鈥檚 poor communities. In: Fabio Gygi and Saad Quasem, eds. An Unwell World? Anthropology in a Speculative Mode. New York: Berghahn.
Donner, Henrike. 2023. Critical Ethnography as a Collective Feminist Project. In: Cecilia McCallum; Silvia Posocco and Martin Fotta, eds. The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 65-93. ISBN 9781108647410
Bhattacharya, Bhaswati and Donner, Henrike. 2021. Introduction. In: Bhaswati Bhattacharya and Henrike Donner, eds. Globalising Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9780367178529
Donner, Henrike. 2021. The Housewife goes to Market: Food, Work, and Neoliberal Selves in Kolkata Middle-class Families. In: Bhaswati Bhattacharya and Henrike Donner, eds. Globalising Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 185-205. ISBN 9780367178529
Donner, Henrike. 2018. Domesticating Markets: Early Years Education and Middle-class Parenting in India. In: Marylin Fleer and Beert van Oers, eds. International Handbook on Early Years Education. London/New York: Springer, pp. 1541-1561. ISBN 978-94-024-0925-3
Donner, Henrike. 2015. Making middle-class families in Calcutta. In: James Carrier and Don Kalb, eds. Anthropologies of Class: Power, Practice, Inequality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 131-148. ISBN 9781107087415
Donner, Henrike. 2015. Liberalisation. In: Gita Dharampal-Frick; Rachel Dwyer; Monica Kirloskar-Steinbach and Jahnavi Phalkey, eds. Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies. Delhi: Oxford University Press and New York University Press, pp. 160-161. ISBN 978-0199452750
Donner, Henrike. 2014. Gender and Property in Neoliberal Middle-class Kolkata: Of untold riches and unruly homes. In: Leela Fernandes, ed. Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 189-203. ISBN 9780415523530
Donner, Henrike. 2013. West Bengal: Colonial Legacy, Class Formation and Politics. In: Peter Berger and Frank Heidemann, eds. The Modern Anthropology of India: Ethnography, Themes and Theory. London: Routledge, pp. 309-326. ISBN 978-0415587235
Donner, Henrike. 2012. Between the Veranda and the Mall: Fieldwork and the Spaces of Femininity. In: Italo Prado and Guiliana Prato, eds. Anthropology in the City. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 173-190.
Donner, Henrike. 2011. Radical Masculinity: Morality, Sociality and Relationships through Recollections of Naxalite Activists. In: Alpa Shah and Judith Pettrigrew, eds. Windows to the Revolution: Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal. London: Orient Black Swan, pp. 139-159. ISBN 978-8187358497
Donner, Henrike. 2011. Gendered Bodies, Domestic Work and Perfect Families: New Regimes of Gender and Food in Bengali Middle-class Lifestyles. In: Henrike Donner, ed. Being Middle-class in India: A Way of Life. London: Routledge, pp. 47-72. ISBN 978-0415671675
Donner, Henrike and De Neve, Geert. 2011. Introduction. In: Henrike Donner, ed. Being Middle-class in India: A Way of Life. London: Routledge, pp. 1-22. ISBN 978-0415671675
Donner, Henrike and De Neve, Geert. 2006. Space, Place and Globalisation: Revisiting the Urban Neighbourhood in India. In: Henrike Donner and Geert De Neve, eds. The Meaning of the Local: Politics of Place in Urban India. London: Routledge, pp. 1-20. ISBN 978-1844721146
Donner, Henrike. 2006. The Parlour and the Para: Class and Gender in a Neighbourhood of Central Calcutta. In: Geert De Neve and Henrike Donner, eds. The Meaning of the Local: Politics of Place in Urban India. Routledge: London, pp. 141-158. ISBN 978-0415596237
Donner, Henrike. 2005. Children are Capital, Grandchildren are Interest: Changing Educational Strategies and Kin-relations in Calcutta Middle-class Families. In: Jackie Assayag and Chris Fuller, eds. Globalizing India: Perspectives from Below. London: Anthem Press, pp. 119-139. ISBN 978-1843311959
Donner, Henrike. 2005. Reflections on Gender and Fieldwork in the City. In: Geert De Neve and Maya Unnithan-Kumar, eds. Critical Journeys: The Making of Anthropologists. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 165-189. ISBN 978-0754648093
Donner, Henrike. 2004. Labour, Privatisation, and Class: Middle-class Women鈥檚 Experience of Changing Hospital Births in Calcutta. In: Maya Unnithan-Kumar, ed. Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State: Cultural Transformations in Childbearing. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 113-135. ISBN 978-1845450441
Article
Donner, Henrike. 2026. On Stuckedness: Marital Confinement and the Temporalities of Gendered Labour in Kolkata鈥檚 Marginal Neighbourhoods. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ), ISSN 1960-6060
Donner, Henrike. 2023. 鈥楾he Girls are Alright鈥�: Beauty Work and Neoliberal Regimes of Responsibility Among Young Women in Urban India. Critique of Anthropology, 43(4), pp. 399-421. ISSN 0308-275X
Donner, Henrike and Goddard, Victoria. 2023. Kinship and the Politics of Responsibility: An Introduction. Critique of Anthropology, 43(4), pp. 331-364. ISSN 0308-275X
Donner, Henrike. 2022. Liminal States: Propertied Citizenship and Gendered Kin Work in Middle-Class Kolkata Families. Critique of Anthropology, 42(4), pp. 457-476. ISSN 0308-275X
Donner, Henrike. 2017. Two steps forward, one step back ? Does India鈥檚 new maternity leave policy enhance gender equality? Policy Forum, April 10th,
Donner, Henrike. 2017. The Anthropology of the Middle Class Across the Globe. Anthropology of this Century, 18(1),
Donner, Henrike. 2016. Doing it our way: Love and marriage in Kolkata middle-class families. Modern Asian Studies, 50(4), pp. 1147-1189. ISSN 0026-749X
Donner, Henrike and Santos, Goncalo. 2016. Love, Marriage, and Intimate Citizenship in Contemporary China and India: An introduction. Modern Asian Studies, 50(4), pp. 1123-1146. ISSN 0026-749X
Donner, Henrike. 2015. 'Daughters are Just Like Sons Now': Negotiating Kin-work and Property Regimes in Kolkata Middle-class Families. Journal of South Asian Development, 10(3), pp. 318-344. ISSN 0973-1741
Donner, Henrike and De Neve, Geert. 2015. Introduction: Revisiting Urban Property in India. Journal of South Asian Development, 10(3), pp. 255-266. ISSN 0973-1741
Donner, Henrike. 2012. Love and Marriage, Globally. Anthropology of this Century, 4(2),
Donner, Henrike. 2012. Middle-class Imagination and Urban Restructuring in Twenty-first Century Kolkata. New Perspectives on Turkey(46), pp. 129-155. ISSN 0896-6346
Donner, Henrike. 2010. Locating Activist Spaces: The Neighbourhood as a Source and Site for Urban Activism in 1970s Calcutta. Cultural Dynamics, 23(1), pp. 21-40. ISSN 0921-3740
Donner, Henrike and Chari, Sharad. 2010. Ethnography and Activism: A Critical Introduction. Cultural Dynamics, 22(2), pp. 75-84. ISSN 0921-3740
Donner, Henrike. 2009. Radical Masculinity: Morality, Sociality and Relationships through Recollections of Naxalite Activists. Dialectical Anthropology, 33(3), pp. 327-343. ISSN 0304-4092
Donner, Henrike. 2008. New Vegetarianism: Food, Gender and Neo-Liberal Regimes in Bengali Middle-Class Families. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 31(1), pp. 143-169. ISSN 0085-6401
Donner, Henrike. 2006. Committed Mothers and Well-adjusted Children: Privatisation, Early-Years Education and Motherhood in Calcutta Middle-class Families. Modern Asian Studies, 40(2), pp. 339-364. ISSN 0026-749X
Donner, Henrike. 2004. The Significance of Naxalbari: Accounts of Personal Involvement and Politics in West Bengal. Cambridge Centre for South Asian Studies Occasional Paoers(14), pp. 1-14. ISSN 1476-7511
Donner, Henrike. 2003. The Place of Birth: Pregnancy, Childbearing and Kinship in Calcutta Middle-class Families. Medical Anthropology, 22(4), pp. 303-341. ISSN 0145-9740
Donner, Henrike. 2002. One鈥檚 Own Marriage: Love Marriages in a Calcutta Neighbourhood. South Asia Research, 22(1), pp. 79-94. ISSN 0262-7280
Donner, Henrike. 1997. Gender and Urbanisation in a Calcutta Neighbourhood. Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India, 46(1), pp. 1-44. ISSN 0970-3411
Digital
Donner, Henrike and Ramadhita, Sarah. 2025. Cultivating Menopause: Using Herbal Remedies to Address Inequalities Affecting Women鈥檚 Reproductive Health.
Exhibition Catalogue
Donner, Henrike; Nicolescu, Gabriela and Santos, Dominique. 2016. Austerity Bites: Food Stories from Lewisham.
Show/Exhibition
Mukherjee, Sujay and Donner, Henrike. 2024. Narrative Trails from the Locality: Rajabazar Kolkata - Exhibition and Seminar. In: "Narrative Trails from the Locality: Rajabazar, Kolkata", Rabindra Bharati University (Jorasanko Campus), Kolkata, India, 21-22 June 2024.