Social Sciences

Dean: Prof Anitha Kurup
With an eclectic mix of disciplines, School of Social Sciences is engaged in activities that include research, teaching, outreach, advocacy and consultancy. The faculty are drawn from sociology and social anthropology, gender studies, educational studies and economics, and have conducted several research-cum-outreach projects in the fields of education, gender, governance and development. Current areas of interest are in forging inter-disciplinary work to understand and address issues in the areas of water and education. Current areas of research include education, migration and transnationalism, organisations, governance, development, urbanisation and economic sociology.
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Pani, N. & Behera, A., 2018. Reasoning Indian Politics: Philosopher Politicians to Politicians Seeking Philosophy, Routledge India. Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Reasoning-Indian-Politics-Philosopher-Politicians-to-Politicians-Seeking/Pani-Behera/p/book/9781138201835#authorbio.
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Tukdeo, S., 2018. Beyond deaths in school: education, knowledge production, and the Adivasi experience. Qualitative Research Journal. Available at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/QRJ-D-17-00054?journalCode=qrj#.WpbZovkhlZ0.gmail.
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Mathew, L., 2017. Betrayed futures: Uneconomic schooling in liberalizing Kerala (India). In Anthropological perspectives on student futures. Anthropological Studies of Education. Anthropological perspectives on student futures. Anthropological Studies of Education. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 103-118.
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Kurup, A. & Singai, C.B., 2017. Redefining University Education in India: Pedagogy and Student Voices. In Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Towards a Socially Just Pedagogy in a Global Context. Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Towards a Socially Just Pedagogy in a Global Context. Palgrave Critical University Studies: Springer , pp. 175-190 .
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Kurup, A., 2017. Gender, Science and Technology Education in India. In Feminists and Science: Critiques and Changing Perspectives in India. Feminists and Science: Critiques and Changing Perspectives in India. New Delhi: Sage. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/1244.
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Kapur, M., 2017. Quality Primary Education. Mentor LXL Ideas, 10(9), pp.14-17. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/1246.
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Salam, J., 2017. Manipuris and Sharmila Irom. Economic and Political Weekly, 52(12), p.5. Available at: http://www.epw.in/journal/2017/12/letters/manipuris-and-sharmila-irom.html.
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Sunder, S., 2017. Fighting for a Public Space. Seminar, 694, pp.65-69. Available at: http://india-seminar.com/semframe.html.
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Kapur, M., 2017. Being a Human Mental Health Professional. Journal of Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, 43(1), pp.123-127. Available at: http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/1245.
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Samhita, K., 2017. The Turbulence of Youth and the Importance of a Master. The New Leam, 3(25). Available at: http://thenewleam.com/2017/06/the-turbulence-of-youth-and-the-importance-of-a-master/.
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Nagaraj, N. & Balasubramanian, K., 2017. Three perspectives on complexity: entropy, compression, subsymmetry. The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 226(15), pp.3251-3272. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60347-2.
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Rashmi, M., 2017. The 'Digital Others'. Seminar, 694, pp.40-43. Available at: http://india-seminar.com/semframe.html.
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Verstappen, S., 2017. Mobility and the Region: Pathways of Travel within and beyond Central Gujarat. Journal of South Asian Development, 12(2), pp.112-135. Available at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0973174117711869?journalCode=sada.
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Dixit, S. & Rout, B.Chandra, 2017. Writing History: Truth and Ideology. The New Leam, 3(22-23), pp.5-7. Available at: http://thenewleam.com/2017/03/writing-history-truth-and-ideology-by-shalini-dixit-and-bharat-chandra-rout/.
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Mathew, L., 2017. Mandated Resistance, Embodied Shame: The Material and Affective Contours of a TESOL Method. TESOL Quarterly , November 2017. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tesq.420/full.
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The Provincial Globalisation programme explores processes of ‘provincial globalisation’ in India by studying transnational connections between Overseas Indians and their home regions, especially the effects of ‘reverse flows’ of resources, including remittances, philanthropy, investments, and knowledge. Provincial Globalisation is a collaborative international research programme of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam, and the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, India, funded by the Integrated Programme of WOTRO Science for Global Development, the Netherlands.
- 20 Apr 2018 Local Node, Displacments Conference hosted by NIAS and Bangalore Research Network at NIAS Conference Hall, 1600hrs
- 7 Mar 2018 City at its Limits invites you to a screening of the film: “Beerappa's Angst” a film conceptualized by Leo F. Saldanha and Bhargavi Rao, Lecture Hall, NIAS, 1600hrs
- 29 Nov 2017 NIAS Wednesday Discussion: "Yellammanaata an overnight performance and Contemporary Play" by Sumitra Sunder, Lecture Hall, NIAS, 0930 hrs
- 8 Nov 2017 NIAS Wednesday Discussion: "“Two stones in a river – GST, demonetization and processes in the Indian economy”" by Narendar Pani, JRD Tata Auditorium, NIAS, 0930 hrs
- 8 Nov 2017 to 10 Nov 2017 NIAS- Heritage, Science and Society progamme workshop: ‘Understanding the past: Intervention through dissemination’, Lecture Hall, NIAS, IISc Campus.
- 3 Nov 2017 NIAS Public Lecture: "The Smart City and the Indian Urban Condition" by Sri Prem Chandavarkar, Lecture Hall, NIAS, 1800hrs
- 30 Aug 2017 NIAS Wednesday Discussion: "The Untold Tales of Srirangapatna's Myriad Monuments" by M.B.Rajani, Lecture Hall, NIAS, 0930 hrs
- 23 Aug 2017 NIAS Wednesday Discussion: “Policy Recommendations and Policy Change: Connections, Gaps and Contradictions" by Chetan Singai, Lecture Hall, NIAS, 0930 hrs
- 18 Aug 2017 NIAS Public Lecture: “The Indus Civilization: New Insights on Trade, Technology, Ideology and Writing” By Prof. Mark Kenoyer, JRD Tata Auditorium, NIAS, 1700hrs
- 11 Aug 2017 NIAS Public Lecture: “Vishnu iconography and Art and Temple architecture in the Angkorian period” by Prof. Vasudha Narayan, Lecture Hall, NIAS, 1600hrs