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CSSS organises a panel discussion on Towards a Sociology of Elections
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Centre for the Study of Social Systems
School of Social Sciences
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Towards a Sociology of Elections
Panel Discussion
Speakers
Prof. Surinder. S. Jodhka
Prof. Vivek Kumar
Dr. A. Bimol Akoijam
Dr. Tanweer Fazal
Date & Time:
April 11th, 2019 (Thursday), 3.00 pm
Venue:
Room No: 103, Floor I, SSS-II
How to make sense of elections from sociological perspectives? There is a growing onslaught of the media on creating multiple and often contradicting views into the discourses of elections, which mystify the common observer as well as the social scientists about the nuances and micro-political aspects in the making of elections. It will be informative and critically insightful in the understanding of structures and processes beyond the methods and analyses of psephologists and media houses, which often tend to opaque the entire event by dropping it into a dialogue of numbers and statistics. The debate hopes to open up the domain of elections within the complex structures and processes through which they unfold the socio-cultural underpinnings at both the micro and macro levels of political and social transactions that absorb into the making of elections in India.