Ratheesh Kumar
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for the Study of Social Systems,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
23, SSS-II
Off. Phone
91-11-26708878
Email
ratheesh@mail.jnu.ac.in, rpkratheesh@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
Qualifications
Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Areas of Interest/Specialization
Sociology of Education, Critical Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Sound Studies, Media Anthropology, Debates in Ethnography, Interdisciplinarity.
Experience
- Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, JNU (2023-Present)
- Assistant Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, JNU (2014-2023).
- Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad (2011-14).
- Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-disciplinary Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi (2009-11).
- Research Associate, IIT Bombay (2007-09).
- Research Officer, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (2006).
Awards & Honours
Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the Centre for Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (April - July, 2022).
Associate Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. United Kingdom (April - July, 2022).
International Collaboration/Consultancy
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Best Peer Reviewed Publications
- Kumar, R. (2016). “Temporality as Value: Ethnography and the Question of Time”. Journal of Human Values. Sage Publications, 22(1): 46-56. Temporality as Value: Ethnography and the Question of Time - Ratheesh Kumar, 2016 (sagepub.com)
- Kumar, R. (2022). Sound Subjects and Hearing Cultures: Toward an Acoustic Ethnography. Studies in Indian Politics. Sage. Vol: 10. No. 1. pp. 138–144. Sound Subjects and Hearing Cultures: Towards an Acoustic Ethnography - Ratheesh Kumar, 2022 (sagepub.com)
- Kumar, R. (2018). “Theorising Experience: On Critical Pedagogy and the Subject Matter of Caste". In "Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctures", Maitrayee Chaudhury and Manish Thakur (eds). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
- Kumar, R. & Parthasarathy. D. (2008). “Global Interventions in Educational Reform: DPEP and the New Curriculum: The Case of Wayanad District in Kerala”. Journal of Educational planning and Administration. Volume XXI, No.4.
- Kumar, R. (2003). “Politics of School Reform Movements: DPEP and Primary Education, the Kerala Experience”. Perspectives in Education. Vol. 19, No. 1.
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
- Kumar, R. (2024). Confronting Privilege: Exploring the “Other Side” of Caste Inequality. In: Jodhka, S.S., Rehbein, B. (eds) Global Handbook of Inequality. Springer, Cham. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97417-6_22-1. Confronting Privilege: Exploring the “Other Side” of Caste Inequality | SpringerLink
- Kumar, R. (2024). "Casting” Mentors: Critical Pedagogy and Caste-Categories in Indian Higher Education. In: G. S Suresh Babu & Arunima Naithani (eds) Cultures of Learning: Mapping the New Spaces of Critical Pedagogy in India. Routledge. “Casting” Mentors | 9 | Critical Pedagogy and Caste-Categories in Indi (taylorfrancis.com)
- Remesh, Babu. P & Kumar, R. (2024). "Practising Interdisciplinarity: Convergences and Contestations". Routledge. Practising Interdisciplinarity: Convergences and Contestations - 1st E (routledge.com)
- Kumar, R. (2020). “Listening Global: Sonic Texts, Technologies and the New Listening Subjects”, in V. Sujatha (ed). ‘Global Capital and Social Difference. New Delhi: Routledge.
- Kumar, R. and Parayil, S. K (2020). “Cultural Life of the Senses: Starting Points” (Co-Authored with Sujith Kumar Parayil) in the special issue of Thapasam, A Quarterly Journal of Kerala Studies. Vol: XVI (1-2.): 3-29.
Patents (if any)
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