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Ratheesh Kumar

Ratheesh Kumar
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[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, rpkratheesh[at]gmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
https://www.jnu.ac.in/
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. (2025). Sounding against Culture? The Tenors of Western Music in a Colonial Small Town. South Asian History and Culture, 16(1), 28–45. January. 2025.  https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2024.2442819

  • Kumar, R. (2024). The Battlefields in the Extracurricular: From Performance to Litigation. Comparative Education Studies, 1(1). December. 2024. CES.Vol 1.1._Commentary_Kumar - Comparative Education Society of India (CESI) (cesindia.net)

  • 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.

  • “Listening Global: Sonic Texts, Technologies and the New Listening Subjects”, in V. Sujatha (ed). ‘Global Capital and Social Difference. New Delhi: Routledge. 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. 2020.

  • “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. 2018.

Patents (if any)

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