Social Sciences

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.

Anamika Ajay	Anitha Kurup	Ankita Rathi
Anupama Mahajan	Carol Upadhya	Chetan B Singai
Debosree Banerjee	Jeebanlata Salam	Keya Bardalai
Kshitija Joshi	Leya Mathew	N. Shantha Mohan
Narendar Pani	Rashmi M	S.S. Meenakshis...
Sashi Kiran C	Savitha Suresh Babu	Shalini Dixit
Shivali Tukdeo	Sindhu H R	Sindhuja C.V
Sitharama S. Iyengar	Sumedha Bajar

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Sociology and Social Anthropology

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K, J., 2018. Education, Migration and Human Development: Kerala Experience, Rawat Books. Available at: https://www.rawatbooks.com/education/education-migration-and-human-development.
Upadhya, C., Rutten, M. & Koskimaki, L., 2018. Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics, Routledge India. Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Provincial-Globalization-in-India-Transregional-Mobilities-and-Development/Upadhya-Rutten-Koskimaki/p/book/9781138069626.
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.
Upadhya, C., 2018. Capitalizing on the Future: Negotiating Planned Urbanization in South India. In Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present. Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present. JOVIS Verlag. Available at: https://www.jovis.de/en/books/details/product/urban-asias.html.
Upadhya, C., 2018. Ghurye, Govind Sadashiv (1893–1983). In The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. JohnWiley & Sons, Ltd. Available at: https://www.wiley.com/en-ai/The+International+Encyclopedia+of+Anthropology,+12+Volume+Set-p-9780470657225.
Pani, N. & Behera, A., 2018. On the ‘why’ of Indian politics. In Reasoning Indian Politics: Philosopher Politicians to Politicians Seeking Philosophy. Reasoning Indian Politics: Philosopher Politicians to Politicians Seeking Philosophy. London: Routledge, pp. 1-22. Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Reasoning-Indian-Politics-Philosopher-Politicians-to-Politicians-Seeking/Pani-Behera/p/book/9781138201835#authorbio.
Gupta, H., 2018. In Bengaluru’s Gated Communities, New Forms of Civil Engagement are Emerging. Economic and Political Weekly, 53(39). Available at: https://www.epw.in/engage/article/bengalurus-gated-communities-new-forms.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
Sunder, S., 2017. Fighting for a Public Space. Seminar, 694, pp.65-69. Available at: http://india-seminar.com/semframe.html.
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.
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/.
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.

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.

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