RAVI KUMAR Associate Professor Department of Sociology, South Asian University, Akbar ...

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by  Ravi Kumar

RAVI KUMAR
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology,
South Asian University, Akbar Bhawan, New Delhi
Email: [email protected]
Blog:http://againstcapital.wordpress.com

EDUCATION
Ph.D. (2007, Sociology), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Title: ‘Dynamics
of Identity Formation: The Political Economy of Backward Castes in Bihar’
M.Phil. (2001, Sociology), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Title: ‘Modernity
and its Critics: An Analysis of Select Texts of Gandhi, Marcuse and Foucault’
M.A. (1999, Sociology), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
[July 2011 onwards] Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, South
Asian University, New Delhi
[August 2007-June 2011] Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology,
Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi
[March-July 2007] Fellow, Council for Social Development
[Oct. 2003- Feb. 2007] Associate Fellow, Council of Social Development,
New Delhi
[Feb 2001- March 2002] State-coordinator, Bihar, for the nation wide study to
prepare People’s Report on Status of Untouchability in India undertaken by
with Action Aid, India
[January-March 2000] Independent Researcher for National Institute for
Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) Did an ethnographic study
titled ‘Education in the Times of Extremist Violence’ in Rampur Chai village of
Central Bihar
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEES/ OTHER ACADEMIC
RESPONSIBILITIES
[2013-2015] External Expert Member, Committee of Studies, K R Narayanan
Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
VISITING FACULTY
[20th June 2011-24th June 2011] Visiting Faculty at the National Institute of
Design teaching a course on ‘Approaches to Indian Society’, Ahmedabad
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[31st December 2007-4th January 2008] Visiting Faculty at the National
Institute of Design teaching a course on ‘Material Culture’, Ahmedabad
COURSES TAUGHT

Postgraduate Courses
Ideology, Social Science and the Theoretical Domain (PhD); Social
Movements and Transformative Politics (M.A.); Economy and Society
(M.A.); Context and Text in Concepts (PhD); Contemporary Social
Theory (M.A.); Indian Society: Structure, Agency and Change (M.A.);
Research Method: Theory and Practice (M.A.)
Undergraduate
Indian Society (Paper II); General Sociology (Paper I); Indian Sociology
(Paper II); Media Education (Paper V A)
COURSES FORMULATED
Ideology, Social Science and the Theoretical Domain (PhD); Social
Movements and Transformative Politics (M.A.); Economy and Society (M.A.);
Critical Knowledge and Pedagogical Possibilities (M.A.); Context and Text in
Concepts (PhD); Critical Social Science, Pedagogy and Transformation
(M.A.); Contemporary Social Theory (M.A.); Social Theory (B.A.)
RESEARCH
[2013] Field based research on ‘Understanding Democracy in Neoliberal
Times: the Case of Higher Education Institutions in Delhi’
[2009] Field based research on ‘Ghettoisation and the Politics of Class in the
City: Making of Collective Identities in a Religion Based Ghetto in Delhi’
[2007-08] Field based research on ‘Social Justice Agenda and Development
of the Backward Castes: Examining Evidences from the Field in Bihar’
[2007] Field based research on Monitoring the Citizen’s Social Charter in
India: Assessing the Status of Right to Elementary Education and Right to
Food (Mid Day Meal Scheme) in six states on India
[2005] Worked on India’s first Social Development Report 2006
[2005] Field based research on ‘Forgotten Villages: A People’s Perspective on
Village Displacement from Sariska Tiger Reserve, a research carried out in
Sariska Tiger Reserve’
[2004] Field based research on ‘Educational Deprivation of the Marginalized:
A Village Study of the Mushar Community in Bihar’
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[2001-2002] People’s Report on Status of Untouchability (a study on status of
untouchability in 52 villages of Bihar & Jharkhand for Action Aid, India. Report
published in Hindi as Dahleej Tak…: Gawain Bihar Mein Chuachut par Taaza
Adhyan (Books for Change: New Delhi: 2005)
[January-March 2000] An ethnographic study titled Education in the Times of
Extremist Violence in Rampur Chai village of Central Bihar
BOOKS
Authored

[2010] Ghetto and Within: Class, Identity, State and Political Mobilisation, New
Delhi: Aakar Books

[2005] Dahleej Tak…: Gawain Bihar Mein Chuachut par Taaza Adhyan
(Hindi) (A Study of Practices of Untouchability in Rural Bihar), (Delhi: Books
for Change)

Edited/Co-edited

[2012] Education and the Reproduction of Capital: Neoliberal Knowledge and
Counterstrategies, New York: Palgrave Macmillan

[Forthcoming, Delhi: Routledge] Transformative Actions: Turning Points and
Shifts

[2010] The Heart of the Matter-Development, Identity and Violence:
Reconfiguring the Debate, Delhi: Aakar Books
[2009] Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences, New York
& London: Routledge
[2006] The Crisis of Elementary Education in India (Delhi: Sage Publications)
[2004] The Politics of Imperialism and Counterstrategies (Delhi: Aakar Books)
CHAPTERS
Authored
[2013] ‘El Capital a la Ofensiva’ in Gonzalez, Joseba Fernandez, Crespo,
Miguel Urban and Alonso Carlos Sevilla (eds.) De la Nueva Miseria: La
Universidad en Crisis y la Nueva Rebelion Estudiantil, Madrid: Akal
[2012] ‘Neoliberal Education and Imagining Strategies of Resistance: An
Introduction’ in Kumar, Ravi (ed.) Education and the Reproduction of Capital:
Neoliberal Knowledge and Counterstrategies, New York: Palgrave Macmillan
[2012] ‘Neoliberal Politics Impacting Education: Imagining Possibilities of
Resistance’ Kumar, Ravi (ed.) Education and the Reproduction of Capital:
Neoliberal Knowledge and Counterstrategies, New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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[2012] 'Persistent Educational Marginalisation of Scheduled Tribes:
Arguments for an Alternative' in Ghosh, Arun Kumar and Munda, Ram Dayal
(eds.) The Other Side of Development : the Tribal Story, New Delhi and
Seattle: Konark Publishers
[2011] ‘Violence, aspirations and migration in post-liberalization rural India:
conflict and change in a strife-torn village’ in Trivedi, Prashant Kumar (ed.)
The Globalization Turbulence: Emerging Tensions in Indian Society, Delhi
and Jaipur: Rawat Publications
[2010] ‘Introduction’ in (Kumar, Ravi, edited) The Heart of the Matter-
Development, Identity and Violence: Reconfiguring the Debate, New Delhi:
Aakar Books
[2010] ’Changes in Social Research in the Context of the ‘New Centres of
Knowledge Production’’ in Chaudhuri, Maitrayee (ed.) Sociology in India:
Intellectual and Institutional Practices, Delhi: Rawat Books
[2010] ‘Market, Deprivation, and Education in the Age of Globalisation’, in
Nikolopoulou, A. and Abhraham, T. (eds) The Challenge to Globalization:
Education for Tolerance, Democracy and Sustainable Development, New
Delhi: Sage Publications
[2009] Neoliberal Consensus and the Agenda for Schooling, Debating
Education, No.4 (Against Neoliberal Thrust), Delhi: Sahmat
[2009] ‘Persistent Inequities, Obfuscating Explanations: Reinforcing the Lost
Centrality of Class in Indian Educational Debates’, in Kelsh, Deborah, Hill,
Dave and Macrine, Sheila (eds.), Teaching Class: Knowledge, Pedagogy,
Subjectivity, New York: Routledge
[2009] ‘State, Inequality and Politics of Capital: The Neoliberal Scourge in
Education’ in Hill, Dave and Rosskam, Ellen (eds.) The Developing World and
State Education: Neoliberal Depredation and Egalitarian Alternatives, New
York: Routledge
[2006] ‘Introduction: Equality, Quality and Quantity – Mapping the Challenges
before Elementary Education in India’, in Kumar, Ravi (ed.), The Crisis of
Elementary Education in India, New Delhi: Sage Publications
[2006] ‘Educational Deprivation of the Marginalized: A village study of Mushar
Community in Bihar’, in Kumar, Ravi (ed.), The Crisis of Elementary
Education in India, New Delhi: Sage Publications
[2004, March] ‘Continuity, Change and Resistance: Changing Patterns of
Social Mobilization in Latin America’ in Mukherjee, Indrani & Sanyal, Sovon
(eds.), Reading “Culture” in Spanish & Luso-Brazillian Studies, Centre for
Spanish Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
[1998] ‘Omar Torrijos - Crusader Against Colonialism’ in Chattopadhyay,
Aparajit (ed.) Panama - An Indian Perspective; New Delhi: Embassy of
Panama
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Co-Authored
[Forthcoming] ‘Emerging Contours of the Transformative Act’ in Savyasaachi
and Ravi Kumar (eds) Social Movements: Turning Points and Shifts,
Routledge: New Delhi
[2009] ‘Introduction: Neoliberal Capitalism and Education’, in Hill, Dave and
Kumar, Ravi (ed.) Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences,
New York & London: Routledge
[2009] ‘Neoliberalism and its Impacts’, in Hill, Dave and Kumar, Ravi (ed.)
Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences, New York &
London: Routledge
[2006] ’Transforming Spaces or Refashioning Hierarchies?: Some Preliminary
Reflections on Gender Relations, Media and Globalisation’ (with Rama Paul)
in Somayaji, Sakarama and Somayaji, Ganesh (eds.) Sociology of
Globalisation: Perspectives from India, Rawat Publications: New Delhi and
Jaipur
[2006] ’Institutionalizing Discrimination: Challenges of Educating Urban Poor
in Neo-liberal Era’ (with Rama Paul) in Ali, Sabir (ed.) Managing Urban
Poverty, Uppal Publishing House: New Delhi
BOOK SERIES
[Forthcoming, co-editor] Social Movements, Dissent and Transformative
Action, Routledge: Delhi
JOURNALS EDITED
Editor, South Asia, Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies
[June-July 2007] Joint Editor, Social Change
[September 2006] Guest Edited Social Change, 36(3) on the theme
Perspectives on Globalisation and Education
[2006-2007] Member, Editorial Committee, Social Change, brought out by the
Council for Social Development, New Delhi
PAPERS IN JOURNALS
Refereed
[October 2012] ‘The Charge of Neoliberal Brigade and Higher Education in
India’, Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies, Volume 10, Number 2,
ISSN 1740-2743
[2012] ‘Imagining a Socialist, Democratic and Secular Society through
Possibilities of a Common School System in India’, Policy Futures in
Education, Volume 10 Number, 3, ISSN 1478-2103
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[2010] ‘Education and the Politics of Capital: Perspective and Agenda for
Resistance against Neoliberalism’, Social Scientist, Vol. 38, Nos. 9-12,
September-December 2010
[2009] ‘Processes of Knowledge Production and the Educational Complex in
Capitalism’, Contemporary Perspectives: History and Sociology of South Asia
(A Cambridge University Press India)
[May 2008] ‘Against Neoliberal Assault on Education in India: A
Counternarrative of Resistance’ Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies,
vol.6, No.1, ISSN 1740-2743,
<http://www.jceps.com/?pageID=article&articleID=112>
[2008] ‘Globalization and Changing Patterns of Social Mobilization in Urban
India’, Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political
Protest (a Taylor and Francis, Routledge Journal)
[2007, May 19 - May 25, co-authored] Creation of ‘Inviolate Space’: Lives,
Livelihoods and Conflict in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Economic and Political
Weekly, Vol 42, No. 20
[2006] ‘State, Class and Critical Framework of Praxis: The Missing Link in
Indian Educational Debates’ in Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies,
Vol.4, No.2
[2006] ‘When Gandhi’s Talisman No Longer Guides Policy Considerations:
Market, Deprivation and Education in the Age of Globalisation’, Social
Change, 36(3)
[August 6, 2005, co-authored] Pushed Over the Edge, (co-authored),
Economic and Political Weekly
[Winter 2005] ‘Quality to Quantity Education?: Inequality and Politics of
Educational Opportunity in India’, Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Volume7,
Issue 2
Non-refereed
[July & August 2011] ‘Neoliberalism, Education and the Politics of Capital:
Seaching Possibilities of Resistance’, Analytical Monthly Review,Vol.9,
No.4&5
[2010] ‘Neoliberalism, Education and the Politics of Capital: Searching
Possibilities of Resistance’, Radical Notes
(http://radicalnotes.com/content/view/150/39/), 02 December 2010
[2006] ‘From Welfarism to Neoliberalism: Some Debates on Education and
Equality - A Bibliography’, Social Change, 36(3) (Non refereed section)
[2000] Peruvian Crisis: An Enquiry into the Socio-Economic Realities;
Hispanic Horizon (Journal of Centre for Spanish Studies, JNU)
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Co-Authored
[March 2006] ’Policy and Process of Relocation from Conservation Areas: The
Case of the Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan’, Social Change, 36(1) (with
Ghazala Shahabuddin and Manish Srivastawa)
[September 2005] Burden of Diseases, Healthcare Priorities and Role of State
in India, Social Change, 35(3) (with Saswata Ghosh)
ARTICLES IN NEWS PAPERS AND MAGAZINES
[May 8, 2013] DU Dilemma: It is Neoliberalism on Offensive, Radical Notes,
www.radicalnotes.com
[May 7, 2010] The Business of Social Justice under Neoliberalism, Radical
Notes, http://radicalnotes.com/journal/2010/05/07/the-business-of-social-
justice-under-neoliberalism/
[Winter, 2010] India: General Elections 2009 and the Neoliberal Consensus,
New Politics, Vol. XII, No.04
[02 February 2009] Right to Education Bill: Ruling Class Triumphs as
Opposition Gets Coopted, Radical Notes,
http://radicalnotes.com/content/view/86/39/
[October, 2008] ‘Beyond the Veil of Identity Politics – Preliminary Explorations
through Categories of Caste and Class in Indian Society’, Correspondence,
No.1
[12th December 2007] ‘Standardise higher education curricula?’ The
Economic Times
[11th December 2007] ’Relevance’, ‘Mobility’ and ‘Upgradation’: It’s Market All
the Way in the Higher Education Policy Making, Radical Notes
(www.radicalnotes.com)
[25th December 2006] On Special Education Zones, The Economic Times
[September 17, 2005] Education, State and Class in India: Towards a Critical
Framework of Praxis, Mainstream, XLIII (39)
[July 29-August 4, 2005] Farewell to Class Struggle in Name of Secularism,
Mainstream
[November - December 2005] Failure to Translate Social Justice into
Development: Exploring Backward Caste Politics in Bihar, EurAsia Bulletin,
Vol. 9 No. 11 & 12 (Published by European Institute of Asian Studies,
Brussels)
[19th August, 2005] Making Villagers Pay, The Times of India
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[July - August 2004] Nationalism and education in India & the BJP, EurAsia
Bulletin, Vol. 8 No. 7 & 8 (Published by European Institute of Asian Studies,
Brussels)
[June 29, 2004] Educational Agenda: Expectations and Fears, The Hindu
[May 1, 2004] Ideologies, Practices and Communal Fascism in India:
Reinventing Spaces of Contest, Mainstream, Vol. XLII (19)
[April 10, 2004] ‘Spectacle’ of Democracy in Times of Elections: About
Shrinking Critical Space and Marginalized Collectivities, Mainstream, Vol. XLII
(16)
[September 21, 2002] Resisting Images of Violence: Criticality, Tolerance and
Secularism After Gujarat, Mainstream, Vol. XL (40)
[15/03/1998] Contemporary Political Realities, Pioneer (Delhi ed.)
[18/10/1997] Students Politics: Need for Reorientation - JNU a Test Case,
Mainstream
[May 31, 1997] Status of Education in India - Myth and Reality, Mainstream,
VOL.XXV (5)
[April 12, 1997] Peruvian Crisis: An Enquiry into the Socio-Economic
Realities, Mainstream, VOL.XXV (18)
[Monsoon, 1995] Zapatistas and Peasant Revolt in Mexico - Unraveling the
Reality, Hispanic Horizon, No.14 (republished in Mainstream, VOL. XXIV (39),
August 31, 1996)
[Winter 1995] Religious Practices in Ancient Latin American Cultures,
Hispanic Horizon, No.13
INTERVIEWS
[19 February 2009] Being, Becoming and Breaking-Free: Peter McLaren and
the Pedagogy of Liberation, an Interview with Peter McLaren, Radical Notes,
http://radicalnotes.com/content/view/88/39/

BOOK REVIEWS
[2011] Book Review of Anuradha De, Reetika Khera, Meera Samson and A.K.
Shiva Kumar [2011] Probe Revisited: A Report on Elementary Education in
India, Oxford University Press, Delhi in Indian Journal of Human
Development, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2011
[2011] Book Review of Randhir Singh, Marxism Socialism Indian Politics: A
View from the Left, Aakar Books: New Delhi. Published in Social Change,
Vol.41, No.2, Sage Publications
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[2010] Book Review of Preet Rustagi (ed.), Concerns, Conflicts, and
Cohesion: Universalisation of Elementary Education in India. New Delhi:
Oxford University Press. Published in Contemporary Education Dialogue, Vol.
8, No.1, pp. 105–128, Sage Publications
[2009] Review of Marxism and Educational Theory by Mike Cole, Policy
Futures in Education, Volume 7 Number 1 2009, ISSN 1478-2103
[May 2007] There is an Alternative, Let’s Build it Now, Review of Michael
Lebowitz’s Build it Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century, Monthly
Review Press, New York, Radical Notes, www.radicalnotes.com
[September, 2006] ‘Modernity, Globalisation and Identity: Towards a Reflexive
Quest’ by Avijit Pathak, Social Change, 36(3)
[December 2004] ‘Paradigms of learning – The Total Literacy Campaign in
India’ by Malavika Karlekar (ed.), Social Change, 34(4)
[12th June, 2004] Asserting People’s Power: Paradigms of Resistance in
Agrarian Bihar (A Review Essay of Louis, Prakash, ‘People’s Power: The
Naxalite Movement in Central Bihar’, Wordsmiths, Delhi, 2002), Mainstream
42(25)
[March 2004] ‘Sociology of Gender – The Challenge of Feminist Sociological
Knowledge’ edited by Sharmila Rege, Social Change, 34(1)
[26th April, 2003] ’History as Experienced: A Dalit Narrative on Endeavors for
Social Transformation’ (A book review of ‘Growing Up Untouchable in India –
A Dalit Autobiography’ by Vasant Moon), Mainstream, VOL.XLI (19)
PAPERS /CONFERENCES/SEMINARS /LECTURES
[November 20, 2013] Presented a paper on ‘Democracy as an End and
Process: Looking at Struggles for Transformation in India’ at International
Conference on Democracies in South Asia and the Role of the Left organized
by Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung,
Germany on 20-22 November, 2013
[October 24, 2013] Delivered Lectures on 'Re-imagining the Educational
Research: Asserting Centrality of Masses and Classes' and 'Critical Pedagogy
as a Methodological Possibilities' at a Capacity Building Programme
organized by Giri Institute of Development Studies (supported by ICSSR) for
young faculty of college and universities between from 17th to 31st October,
2013
[May 15, 2013] Delivered Keynote Address on ‘Perils of Neoliberalism in
Education: Diminishing Democracy and Possibilities of Resistance’ at 3rd
International Conference on Critical Education held at Anakara, Turkey from
May 15-17, 2013
[25th April 2013] Delivered lecture on 'Education for Transformation: Issues
and challenges under Neoliberal Capitalism' at the Refresher Course in
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Education on Emerging Dynamics in Teacher Education (10th April-2nd May
2013) organized by the Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New
Delhi
[11th April 2013] Presented a paper on 'Education as a site of Labour-Capital
Conflict: Reproducing Conditions of Production and the Possibilities of
Subversion’ at seminar on Education for what and for whom? [10-12 April
2013] organized by OKD Institute of Social Change and Development,
Guwahati
[5th April 2013] Presented a paper on 'Neoliberal Predicaments in Indian
Higher Education' at seminar on Higher Education in the 21st Century:
Challenges and Opportunities (April 4-5 2013) organized by the National
Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
[4th March 2013] Delivered lecture in the Interdisciplinary Refresher Course at
the Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education, Delhi University
on the theme (1) “Private capital and education policy: Conjuncturality and
debates”; and (2) “What do they teach under regime of private capital: issues
of Democracy and authoritarianism”
[18th February 2013] Delivered keynote address titled ‘”Transforming
Education, Transforming India” - But for whom is the Question: Tyranny of
Capital and Higher Education India’ at seminar on Emerging Policy Regime in
Indian Higher Education organized by the Department of Education, Panjabi
University Regional Centre, Bhatinda, Punjab
[20th January 2013] Presented a paper on ‘Class Struggle, Politics of Defiance
and Transcending the Neoliberal Outrage’ at seminar on Neoliberal Policy
Regime and the Common Man (19-20 January 2013) organized by A N Sinha
Institute of Social Sciences and All Indian Progressive Forum at Patna, Bihar
[30th June 2012] Presented a paper on ‘Welfarism to Neoliberalism: Changing
Forms of the Rule of Capital and Education in Britain’ at All India Conference
for Abolishing Commercialisation of Education and Building a Common
School System organized by State Platform for Common School System,
Tamil Nadu in association with All India Forum for Right to Education at
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
[20th November 2011] Made a presentation on ‘Specificity of Rosa
Luxemburg and the South Asian Context’ at a workshop organized by Rosa
Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
[28th June, 2011] Presented a paper titled ‘Can Rosa’s Approach be of
significance for South Asia?’ in workshop on Reflections on Rural Life
organized by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
[29th June, 2011] Presented a paper titled ‘Education in villages and the role
of education in a radical transformation’ in workshop on Reflections on Rural
Life organized by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
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