Saturday, March 17, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

Tentative Title:
Globalisation and People at the Margins: Experiences from India

Editors:
Dr. Sarbeswar SAHOO and Dr. KASI Eswarappa

Globalisation has brought many significant changes in the socio-political and economic spheres of Indian society. Although it has brought economic growth and expanded the size of the middle class in India, the lives of the marginalised people have not improved as expected. Globalisation has drastically transformed the relationship between the state and the civil society in India and, as a result, the state is withdrawing itself from the welfare agenda. In response to this, many of the non-state actors have emerged to take up issues that were previously undertaken by the state. Specifically, globalisation has followed a market-oriented development strategy, which has affected the livelihoods of the marginalised people. The civil society actors have strongly opposed this exploitative and exclusivist model of development and advocated for a more participatory and people-centric development paradigm. With this background, the book aims to dwell upon the theoretical and epistemological engagement of globalisation on the one hand, and the ethnographic and empirical experiences on the other. The book will follow inter-disciplinary perspectives, drawing on inferences from sociology, anthropology, politics, development and area studies. We invite abstracts or summary of the paper on the following themes.
1. Globalisation and Marginality
2. Globalization and Livelihoods
3. Globalisation and Social Welfare
4. Globalisation, Civil Society and the State in India
5. Globalisation and Political Mobilisation
The length of the abstract/summary of the paper should be around 1000 words. The due date of submission of abstract is April 20, 2012. Abstracts should be submitted to sarbeswarjnu@yahoo.co.in and kasieswar@gmail.com.

Editors
Dr. Sarbeswar SAHOO is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany.
Dr. KASI Eswarappa is associated with the U.N. Women Project at the Center for Women’s Development and Gender Studies, National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, India.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

40th World Congress of IIS-2012-Call for Papers

Social Change as the Story of Contemporary Indian Society and, Social Scientists
Title of Session: Social Change as the Story of Contemporary Indian Society and, Social Scientists as the Story Tellers
Name of Session Convener(s): Sailaja Nandigama and Eswarappa Kasi University/Organization: Wageningen University/University of Hyderabad
Email: sailaja.nandigama@gmail.com; kasieswar@gmail.com
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Abstract:

21st Century India mirrors changing society and public consciousness. Change may be occurring in myriad forms but it is in the contextualization of caste, class, gender, social, political, power, policy, governance, participation, representation, development. Innovation, and livelihoods of people among other concerns that we, the social scientists articulate this changing society. Last century resulted in phenomenal achievements in the field of scientific enterprise on the one hand, as well as, in the pursuit of science and technology studies (STS) on the other.
Simultaneously, how we understand and represent the ‘social’ and the ‘political’ also underwent phenomenal changes at the local, national and international levels. Social scientists have become ‘the story tellers’ of and for their publics- interpreting, giving meaning and articulating this changing world. This session opens up space for critical reflections on the progression of these stories in the Indian context; and for investigating how the social scientific enterprise in India has been articulating its publics.

With few exceptions, caste, class and gender based power dynamics thoroughly influenced both society and polity of the Indian state during the post western hegemony. This panel invites scholars and academicians with interdisciplinary research background to share their stories and explore the different experiences related to the Social Science’s representation of the Publics and the related caste, class and gender based identities in the Indian context.
The last of Abstract submission: 25th July 2011.

For more details on the congress visit:
http://www.iisoc.org/iis2012 or

http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/iis2012/pdf/nandigama.pdf

Monday, February 22, 2010

Book review- Displaced by Development

Book Review: DISPLACED BY DEVELOPMENT: CONFRONTING MARGINALIZATION AND GENDER INJUSTICE BY LYLA MEHTA, Sage Publications, India Pvt. Ltd.
Reviewed by Dr. Kasi Eswarappa
Oxford University Press & Community Development Journal, 2010
Link: www.cdj.oxfordjournals.org

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

EASA 2010- Call for Papers

Panel (W076) Title: Anthropological reflections on crisis and imagination: a field view
Convenors
Eswarappa Kasi (University of Hyderabad) email
Robin Oakley (Dalhousie University) email
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Short Abstract
In order to depict anthropological moorings, we invite scholars and academicians working in the themes and perspectives of anthropological reflections of crisis and imagination to contribute their experiences with the learned colleagues of EASA.
Long Abstract
Our panel aims to draw an analogy of the issues and perspectives which are related to crisis and imagination. These can be depicted by understanding anthropologist's reflections and ideas, which emerge from their field view. This will facilitate us to get an empirical perceptive of the situation. Further this information would percolate up to facilitate our insights into a broader theoretical framework. Crises may be of many kinds and the way we (anthropologists) perceive them is different from the other human/biological sciences. Hence, field view is very important to address crisis and which will make us an imaginatory aspect of the situations. Here, further, diffusionary tendencies of the ideas would help us to depict imaginations of the people experienced and who deliver their solutions as well. Thus, anthropological reflections on the crisis situation and imagination would bring forth the idea of a field view to the wider audience of the discipline.
To propose your paper Abstract visit to workshop website link below:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=657