MPhil/PhD
Education, Critical Pedagogy, Social Ecology, Caste, Modernity
19 years
Dept. of Sociology, University of Jammu (2005-2013)
JNU (2013 onwards)
Co-lead, Socio-economic Impact and Adaptation, Upper Indus Basin Network of Scientists, (UIBN) Indian Chapter 2019 onwards
Consultant, School Textbook Content Preparation, SCERT, Govt. of Kerala 2023-24
Expert Member, Tamil Nadu Education Policy High-Level Committee, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, 2023
ICSSR Major Research Project: Contested Spaces of Indian Higher Education: Understanding Political Culture and Critical Pedagogy in the University Campus (2017-2020)
UPE, JNU: Education and Social Transformation: Ethnographic Account of Educational System in Ladakh 2015-16
Research Consultant: Access, Equity and Quality of Higher Education in Kerala: A Study on the Self-financing Colleges, Higher Education Council, Govt. of Kerala 2014-15
Major Research: The Socio-economic Status of Pahari-Speaking People, Social Welfare Dept. Jammu and Kashmir 2013
Collaborative Research Project: Climate Change, Cryosphere, Habitat and the Changing Livelihood Pattern of Ladakh Region: An Interdisciplinary Approach towards Developing Adaptative Strategies with University of Jammu and National Institute of Hydrology 2012-13
Editorial Advisory Board, Critical Perspectives on Education and Public Policy, Policy Press (University of Bristol)
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Ethnology, University of Cologne, Germany, 2015 and 2017
Member, Global South Studies Centre, University of Cologne (2015-2018)
Book: Cultures of Learning: Mapping the new spaces of Critical Pedagogy in India, Routledge Oxon, with Arunima Nithani, 2024
Book: Contextualising Educational Studies in India: Research, Policy and Practices, Routledge Oxon with Pradeep K Choudhury, 2021
Book: Education and the Public Sphere: Exploring the Structures of Mediation in Post-colonial India, Routledge: UK , 2020
Unequal educational opportunities and the challenges for the online learning during the pandemic in India, Review of Development and Change, Sage Vol. 29 (1): June 2024, pp. 25-43
Education for political transformation: Mobilisation of Ladakhi youth in Himalaya, India, Sociological Bulletin, Sage Vol. 73 (1): Nov. 2023, pp. 7-23.
Adaptation in scientific method: An outline for mutual learning and knowledge co-production in climate science, Science, Technology and Society, Sage, Vol 82 (4): October 2023 pp. 621-638.
Rethinking education and democratization of public sphere in India, On_Education: Journal for Research and Debate, Vol. 14 Sept. 2022 (invited paper for a special issue)
Education and the Public Sphere: Conception and Mediation, chapter in Education and the Public Sphere: Exploring the Structures of Mediation in the Post-colonial India, edited by Suresh Babu G.S, UK: Routledge (2020), pp. 269-280.
Social Implications of the Privatisation of Higher Education in India, chapter in Issues and Themes in Contemporary Society, edited by B.K. Nagla, Vinay Kumar Srivastava, Jaipur: Rawat (2019), pp. 364-375
Praxis of Environmental Movements in India: Discourse, Methods and Practices, in Structure, Innovation and Adaptation: Concepts and Empirical Puzzles in a Post Modern Milieu, edited by Susan Viswanathan, Delhi: Vinsheild (2019), pp. 173-194
In Search of Political Culture: Location of Education in Indian Democracy, in Culture Change in India: Intellectual Traditions, Institutions and Regions edited by B.K. Nagla and Kameshwar Chaudhary, Oxon: Routledge (2024), pp. 102-121.
Beyond the life and the world of widowhood: Precarity of oppression and discrimination in Routledge Handbook on Gender, Culture and Development in India edited by N.B Lekha & Kumar Pradeep, Oxon: Routledge (2024), pp. 132-148
Reconstituting critical Pedagogy and culture of learning, in Critical pedagogy and the Cultures of Learning in India by Suresh Babu G.S and Arunima Naithani (Eds.) Oxon: Routledge (2024), pp. 13-24.
Critical pedagogy in contemporary times: A conversation with Avijit Pathak (With Nabanipa Bhattacharjee) in Critical pedagogy and the Cultures of Learning in India by Suresh Babu G.S and Arunima Naithani (Eds.) Oxon: Routledge, pp. 27-52.
Pedagogy of critical resistance: Learning from the subaltern protest, in Critical pedagogy and the Cultures of Learning in India by Suresh Babu G.S and Arunima Naithani (Eds.) Oxon: Routledge (2024), pp. 222-235
Education and the Public Sphere: Conception and Mediation in Education and the Public Sphere: Exploring the Structures of Mediation in the Post-colonial India, by Suresh Babu G.S, UK: Routledge, 2020, pp. 269-280.
Evolving Texture of Environmentalism and Submergence of Justice: A Critical Note on the Narmada Valley Protest in India, Interface: A Journal for and About Social Movements, 2016, Vol. 8 (1) May, pp. 142-156
Marginalised and Marginalisation in India: Social Geography and the Timeless of Caste, in Marginality, Exclusion and Social Justice by Ashish Saxena, New Delhi: Rawat Publishers (2013), pp. 119-135.
Civil Society with Fragmented Social Capital: Contemporary Dalit Assertion in Kerala, Kerala Sociologist, Vol. 40 (2), Dec. 2012, pp. 119-141.
Education Policy and Forms of Exclusion: A Case Study of Education in Kerala, Social Action, Vol. 61 (3), 2011, pp. 262-273.
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