Academic Profile
Honours and Awards:
Work Experience:
Assistant Professor (Fulltime) Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts
March 2021- present
Taught courses: Sociology of the Future, Citizenship and Migration Studies, Sociology of Environment and Development, Classical Sociological Thought, Sociology of India, Contemporary Sociological Theory, Research Methods, Independent Research Project (IRP), Concepts in Political Science, Indian Constitution at work.
Research
Editor for the peer-reviewed journal ' Emerging Scholars' started by Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai- December 2021-present
Faculty In-charge for Research and Publications, Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai- December 2021- present
Research Associate, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, November 2019- May 2020
Research Interests
Urban studies and politics, Public policy and governance, Social Theory, Sociology of development, Political theory and Indian Politics, Philosophy of justice
Administrative and other Experience
Chairperson of Area of Social and Political Studies at Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, March 2021- present.
Member of Board of Studies, Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts
Faculty In-charge for the Examination, Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts
Faculty Advisor for Millennium Fellowship, Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai- May 2021- present
Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority(MMRDA), Mumbai, May 2014- July 2014, as a community worker involved in facilitating poor managing solid waste management on their own in Vasi Naka, Mumbai
Department of Rural Development, Uttar Pradesh Government, October 2002-November 2007, involved in the implementation of rural development programs at the grassroots level.
Publications:
Confronting Reflexivity: Sociological trajectories of Teaching Sociology in Liberal Arts Spaces, Sociological Bulletin. Volume 72, Number 1, 2023. SAGE.
Aspirational Citizenship of Displaced Migrants in Mumbai”: Journal of Public Policy
Research Vol. II Issue II (March 2017): 1-24.
Conferences Papers:
Presented a co-authored paper ‘Building structures of solidarity for recognition and dignity: A study of urban poor in Mumbai during the Covid-19 pandemic’ at the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) 2022 conference, Antwerp, September 21, 2022.
‘Electoral and social struggle mediation of the aspiration of an ‘illegal neighborhood’ to be planned and legal: A case study of Mumbai’, in 117th Annual meeting of American Anthropological Association, San Jose, November 14-18, 2018
‘Claims of the Poor for Justice and the Right to the City in Technology-driven Planning in Urban Spaces: A Case Study of Mumbai’ in an academy "Infrastructures, Regions and Urbanizations”, in Transregional Academy Singapore, September 29- October 07, 2018
‘Electoral politics and the planning of the Mumbai City’ in a Summer school for Ph.D. students ‘Urban Transformations to Sustainability in South and Southeast Asia’, University of Cologne, Germany, September 17- 26 2018
Poster presentation on ‘Claims of the Poor for Justice and the Right to the City in Technology-driven Planning in Urban Spaces: A Case Study of Mumbai
in a Summer school for Ph.D. students ‘Urban Transformations to Sustainability in South and Southeast Asia’, University of Cologne, Germany, September 17- 26 2018
‘Hopes amidst Uncertainty: Municipal election, aspiration of an ‘illegal slum’ and urban politics in Mumbai in Comparative Democratization Sections’ Emerging Scholar Research Development Workshop in Annual meeting of American Political Science Association, Boston, August 29- September 02, 2018.
‘Claims of poor for justice in the technology-driven planning process in urban spaces: A case study of Mumbai’ in the National Conference "Infrastructure and the Right to the City: Perspectives from India” organized by Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata 15-16 February 2018
‘Dilemma of electoral politics or autonomous mobilization for recognition in a threatened neighbourhood in Mumbai’ in the International Conference "Contemporary challenges to Indian state and society” organized by Christ University and National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, 15-17 November 2017
‘Electoral politics or autonomous mobilization, the case of Mumbai’ in the International Conference " Research Committee (RC21) on Sociology of Regional and Urban Development of the International Sociological Association: Rethinking urban global justice under the session- Recognition, justice, and critical urban theory today jointly organized by RC21 and University of Leeds, Leeds, 13-15 September 2017
‘Autonomous mobilization or grassroots social struggle in a threatened neighbourhood in Mumbai’, in Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies (FURS), RC21- International Journal of Urban and Regional Studies (IJURR) Summer School in Comparative Urban Studies, jointly organized by the University of Leeds and IJURR, London and Leeds, August 30- September 13, 2017
‘Aspirational Citizenship of displaced migrants in Mumbai in the national seminar " Democracy, Development, and (Re)distribution” organized by the School of Public Policy and Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, 28-30 April 2016
‘Individualisation of basic amenities in Urban India: Imposition of responsibility on poor citizens to manage their Solid Waste Management in Mumbai’ in the 2nd national Young Researcher on "Researching lived experience(s): Ethnography and beyond organized by Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, 4-5 March 2016
‘Social justice: Crisis of political organization capability of social struggles’ in the International Conference "Globalisation, Environment and Social Justice: Perspectives, Issues and concerns” organized by Department of Sociology, Baba Saheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, 15-16 February 2016
