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Satyadeep, an Associate of SSR for the Travel Ethnographies Project, is a journalist by training, and an independent researcher and writer by inclination. Having received his college education in sociology, he has worked for a while with the development sector as copy editor and website content writer, and then as a book editor with a publishing house. He is currently working on an annotated English translation of eminent Oriya writer Gopinath Mohanty’s classic novel of 1949, Amrutara Santana, based on the most populous tribal community of Orissa, as a case-study of the novel as a mode of ethnographic representation. This translation project also involves the preparation of a Beginner’s Guide to Amrutara Santana Today, which will attempt to introduce to the lay reader the community Gopinath Mohanty wrote about, by tracing a brief social history of the people and their places from the time the novel was written to the present day. Sailen Routray calls Bhubaneswar home and has studied English Literature and Social Work in Bhubaneswar and Bombay. He is enrolled as a doctoral student in Development Studies in the School of Social Sciences at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore. His doctoral research interests broadly lie in sociology of development and agrarian studies. He likes to dabble in cooking and translation, and his friends generally pay him to stop singing the very limited repertoire of songs that he has. Some day he hopes to scale the Mount Kilimanjaro, run a half marathon successfully, and become the best single father ever. Having received her formal training in Sociology, Babyrani Yumnam is a research scholar pursuing further academic research . She completed her M.A. and M.Phil from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her research area is primarily development, particularly on issues concerning globalization, hunger, poverty, and development inequalities in developing countries. She wrote her dissertation on "Development Aid: Shifts and Changes in the Idea Behind Aid". Besides, she has worked with Gene Campaign, a Delhi based research and advocacy organization, working on issues such as GE foods and crops, bioresources, farmers' and community rights, Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), indigenous knowledge, and food and livelihood security. She has also worked with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi - an institution of excellence for social science research. She can be reached at Jyoti Sinha, a Ph.D. scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, is a sociologist by training and her research interests are mostly on ‘Development and Gender Issues.’ She is a Psychology Graduate from Delhi University and takes interest in working with autistic children. She completed M.Phil. from Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics. Her Ph.D. work is on ‘Gender and Labour’, and her area of field study is ‘Coal Mines in Jharia, Dhanbad’ in Jharkhand. Her M.Phil. dissertation was on ‘Effect of Globalization on the Indian Working Class.’ She was awarded the ‘Young Research Fellowship’ for the year 2005-06 at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida, where she wrote a paper on ‘Workers’ Association in the New Service Sector with Special Reference to Labour Standards.’ The paper got published in the NLI research studies series (No. 068/2005). Currently she is exploring the coal mines in the US, especially focusing on the women workers, in order to compare the situation with the mines in Jharia. For her Ph.D., she is trying to analyse the role of women workers in the labour movement—how the patriarchal nature of the society hinders a woman worker from joining a trade union, if women’s leadership is there in trade unions in any part of India then what are the reasons, and what are the male workers’ attitude towards the women leaders. jyo.jnu@gmail.com S. M. Faizan Ahmed graduated from the Department of Sociology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, and Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He has been actively contributing to academic research on several issues. His everlasting passion of interest is to understand modern epistemologies with specific concern in sociology of science, gender studies, South-West Asia, and urban sociology. His previous work includes research on construction of identity and the process of mobilization in Aligarh Muslim University, partition violence in the Indian subcontinent, masculinities in India, ethnography of cinema halls in Delhi, students' movement in Aligarh Muslim University, Dialogue(s) with Islam(s) in Europe, and Education among Indian Muslims. He is, currently, also associated with Zentrum Moderner Orient (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies), Berlin, with regard to his research on 'Modernization of Madrasas in India'. faizansocio@gmail.com Tapoja Chaudhuri is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. She did her B.A. in Sociology from Presidency College, Calcutta and pursued M.A. and M.Phil. in Sociology from the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi. Her Ph.D. research is titled: ‘Social Universe of Protected Areas: Community based eco-tourism in Periyar Tiger Reserve’. She is interested in undertaking an ethnographic examination of the social processes through which different individuals and groups participate in various eco-tourism projects in the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Kerala. Most recent political-ecological and environmental anthropological scholarship is quick to critique community-based conservation programs, and their attendant ideas about locality and participatory development, for failing to account for the heterogeneity of state institutions, activists, commercial interests, and local organizations. But such programs, like the World Bank funded Eco-development projects in the PTR, continue to be framed and implemented thereby bringing into being a distinct social universe of cultural and economic interactions of the various individuals involved in. Such everyday engagements in the crucial aspects of development and conservation projects also occurs in delineated social-geographic spaces, along perceptible linkages across scales of socio-political action, and results in the shaping of citizen-subject identities in a plural democratic polity like India. Her study undertakes an ethnographic examination of one such social universe in the Periyar Tiger Reserve in south India, to describe and analyze the interplay between everyday practices of sustainable tourism and cultural production of ideas about nature, regional pride, and professional conservation. Theoretically she is motivated by the ethnomethodological approach of Erving Goffman, and his notion of ‘suspension of disbelief’ leading to a shared ‘world-view’ amongst different individuals engaged together. Broadly speaking, She is also interested in Political Ecology, Postcolonial studies, Visual Anthropology and Anthropology of Space. Tathagatan is currently pursuing M.Phil in the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics. He is working on his dissertation entitled 'Theorising New Social Movements: The Case of Latin America'. His research interests center around the Sociology of Social Movements, Post- Marxist theory, Economic and Political systems and the Politics of Social Science Research. He can be contacted at tathagatan@yahoo.com TILA KUMAR graduated in Sociology from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (1999) and has an M. Phil in Sociology from JNU, New Delhi. (2001). He has been teaching Sociology to post-Graduate students in the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi since July 2002. Broadly speaking, his areas of interest have been around Sociology of Dalits, Development and Democracy. He is also engaged with issues related to Colonization, Modernization and Globalization. The other areas which have attracted his attention are History, Politics and Sociology of Indian Sociology from a Dalit - Subaltern perspective. Some of the courses he has offered so far at the Post-Graduate level are: Sociological Theories, Sociology of Development, Social Stratification, Economic Sociology, and Political Sociology. He has already published papers on Panchayati Raj and Participatory Development, Educated Dalits and Identity Crisis, Globalization from Below as well as Above, Modernity and Dalit Identity, Jagannath Cult and Subaltern Perspective, Bajnias and their Popular Culture. Currently he is working on a book entitled Decasting Dalits: Hegemony, Equality and Identity and a monograph on “Dr. B.R Ambedkar: An Appreciation of His Self, Society and Sociology.”
Sandeep
Rai is a research scholar in Sociology at the Delhi
School of Economics, Sandeep
has worked intensively at the grass root level with the National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme for the last three years as an active volunteer in
the right to work and food campaign and had also played a major role in
organizing surveys, public meetings and public hearings in Jharkhand. His
lighter side reveals a fun loving, jovial guy who's a great cook and film buff.
A sportsman since school days Sandeep has led his school, college and hostel
teams in badminton, basketball and cricket. Sandeep can be contacted at:
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