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SOCIAL SCIENCES WINTER SCHOOL

IN PONDICHERRY

2016

1 Social Sciences Winter School in Pondicherry 2016 https://winterspy.hypotheses.org

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. The concept of the Social Sciences Winter School in Pondicherry .................................................. 3 2. Detailed programme .................................................................................................................... 9 3. Plenary sessions......................................................................................................................... 17

Talk 1: “Methods and Methodology: Urgent Research on Social Mobility”

Partha Nath Mukherji, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi

Talk 2: “Circumstances, Effort or Good Luck: What Determines Social Mobility in India?”

Ashwini Deshpande, Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi

Talk 3: “Spatial Mobility and Networking: Internal and International Migration Contexts”

Mohammed Abdul Kalam, Professor of Eminence, Department of Sociology, Tezpur University

Talk 4: “Assessing Social and Spatial Mobility of Farmers in South India (1980s-2010s)”

Frédéric Landy, Director, French Institute of Pondicherry

4. Methodological workshop ......................................................................................................... 23

Workshop1 – Documenting Processes of Spatial Mobility: Qualitative and Ethnographic Approaches .................................................................................................................................... 25

Coordinators: Rémy Delage, Aurélie Varrel Invited tutors: Tristan Bruslé, M.A. Kalam, Marie Percot

Workshop 2 – Using Survey Data to Understand Social and Geographical Mobility .................. 29 Coordinator: Christophe Jalil Nordman Invited tutors: Ashwini Deshpande, Véronique Gille, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Jean-Noël Senne

Workshop 3 – Social Mobility in its Indian Complexity: Conceptual and Methodological Dynamics ........................................................................................................................................ 33

Coordinator: Thanuja Mummidi Invited tutors: Venkatesh Athreya, Alexandra De Heering, D.N. Dhanagare, Partha N. Mukherji


Appendices ................................................................................................................................... 37 Acronyms and abbreviations .................................................................................................... 39 Bios of experts .......................................................................................................................... 41 Institutional partners and funding bodies ................................................................................ 45 Organisation committees ......................................................................................................... 47 Practical information ................................................................................................................ 49


1. THE CONCEPT OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES WINTER

SCHOOL IN PONDICHERRY

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The Social Sciences Winter School in Pondicherry has been designed as a multi-year programme of intensive and multidisciplinary training workshops addressing theoretical and methodological issues in social sciences research. This is an ambitious project of Indo-French cooperation in social sciences between the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) and Pondicherry University. This practical setup provides each and every one with the opportunity of sharing experiences and research ideas.

MAIN OBJECTIVES This winter school has three main objectives: To create a highly efficient tool in research capacity-building; To strengthen the Indo-French cooperation in research in India; To consolidate a community of young scholars, senior scientists and experts.

More tangible results and outcomes are provided: Development of a website in English (with digital resources); Validation through delivery of certificates upon completion of the training; Writing of a scientific, pedagogical and technical report; Publication of proceedings in paper (IFP Publications) and digital (Website) formats.

CONSORTIUM AND CO-FINANCING Institutional partnership is based primarily on the collaboration between the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP, MAE-CNRS) and the University of Pondicherry. For the current edition 2016, we benefit from the scientific and financial cooperation of the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), of the mixed research units Development, Institutions and Globalisation (DIAL, Paris; IRD-University Paris-Dauphine) and Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS, Paris; EHESS-CNRS) and acknowledge the financial support of Research University Paris (PSL).

ORGANISATION Preparation and monitoring of the event is handled by a steering and a scientific committee composed of experienced researchers in social sciences research and training (see details of the Organisation committees in Appendice). The steering committee includes Dr. Thanuja Mummidi (Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Pondicherry University), Dr. Christophe Jalil Nordman (IRD, DIAL and IFP, Pondicherry), and Dr. Rémy Delage (CNRS, CEIAS, Paris, associated with the IFP).

For the 2016 edition, the local organisation team counts the active collaboration of the scientific committee member Dr. Anne Casile (IRD, PALOC and IFP, Pondicherry), the coordinator of workshop 1 Aurélie Varrel (IFP, Pondicherry), and the students Enya Khanna (Pondicherry University), Subra Roy Chowdhury (Pondicherry University) under the scientific and logistic supports of IFP direction, administration and general secretary.

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TRAINING PROGRAMME 2016 The training runs through five consecutive days and is articulated around two poles: the plenary sessions and the methodological workshops, as detailed below:

• The plenary sessions: for one day (28th November 2016) there will be four oral presentations, presented by experienced, French and Indian researchers. The aim is to present the state-of-the-art, overview of the theoretical and methodological issues on a particular research topic.

• The methodological workshops: for the following three full days (29th November 2016 – 01st December 2016), three workshops à la carte for around 15 trainees are devoted to tutorials. It will discuss theoretical models, text analysis, survey methods, data collection and analysis, etc.

• Knowledge and project restitution: The training ends (2nd December 2016) with a half-day of knowledge restitution, under the form of a simulated research project designed by each group and putting to practice what they have learnt, and the delivery of certificates to participants.

PROFILE OF THE STUDENTS A total of 47 students have been selected (out of 150 applications) for the edition 2016. Gender:

29 female students (62%), 18 male students (38%). Age:

6 students between 20 and 25 years old (13%), 28 students between 26 and 30 (60%), 11 students between 31 and 35 (23%), 2 more than 36 years old (4%).

Education:

M.A. (4) / M. Phil (4) / PhD candidates (39) Disciplines:

Anthropology, Conflict Studies, Cultural Studies, Development Studies, Economics, Educational Finance, Geography, Health Studies, History, International Relations, Law and Governance, Political Sciences, Population Studies, Public Health, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy, Tourism Studies, Urban Affairs.

Institutions (numbers):

India Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University (13), Delhi University (2), Ambedkar University (1),

Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (1), Jamia Millia Islamia (1), National University of Educational Planning and Administration (1)


Jharkhand: Central University of Jharkhand (1) Karnataka: Institute for Social and Economic Change (5) Kerala: Mahatma Gandhi University (1) Mumbai: Tata Institute of Social Sciences (4) Pondicherry: Pondicherry University (8) Punjab: Central University of Punjab (1) Tamil Nadu: Madras University (1), Bharathiar University (1) Uttar Pradesh: Banaras Hindu University (1) Uttarakhand: IIT Roorkee (1)

Germany University of Leipzig (1)

France Université de Paris 7 Diderot (1) EHESS (1)

Sri Lanka University of Ruhana (1)


PROFILE OF THE EXPERTS / TRAINERS The team of trainers is multidisciplinary and international (half from India, half from France and Belgium), composed according to the chosen theme (see their biodatas in appendices), as follows:

NAME DISCIPLINE INSTITUTION

WORKSHOP 1: DOCUMENTING PROCESSES OF SPATIAL MOBILITY: QUALITATIVE AND ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES

Rémy Delage Geography CNRS, Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS), Paris

Aurélie Varrel Geography French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP), Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS), Puducherry

Tristan Bruslé Geography CNRS, Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), Centre for Himalayan Studies, New Delhi

Mohammed Abdul Kalam Anthropology Dept. of Sociology, Tezpur University, Tezpur

Marie Percot Anthropology Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain (IIAC-LAUM), Paris

WORKSHOP 2: USING SURVEY DATA TO UNDERSTAND SOCIAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL MOBILITY

Christophe Jalil Nordman Economics French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), DIAL and IFP, Puducherry

Ashwini Deshpande Economics University of Delhi, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi

Véronique Gille Economics French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), DIAL, Paris

Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay Economics Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi

Jean-Noël Senne Economics Université Paris-Sud, Paris

WORKSHOP 3: SOCIAL MOBILITY IN ITS INDIAN COMPLEXITY: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DYNAMICS

Thanuja Mummidi Anthropology Pondicherry University, Puducherry

Venkatesh Athreya Economics Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Chennai

Alexandra De Heering History University of Namur and French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP), Puducherry

D.N. Dhanagare Sociology Former Vice Chancellor, Shivaji University, Kolhapur

Partha N. Mukherjee Sociology Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi


2. DETAILED PROGRAMME

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ONE THEME, THREE METHODOLOGICAL WORKSHOPS

Mobility and Social Dynamics

The notion of “mobility” is a fruitful one to analyse, but remains a symptom of closed disciplinary boundaries as well as a black box for the social sciences. This is particularly true for South Asia where the dominant Anglo-Saxon terminology enacts an even greater cleavage between fields of study. Nevertheless one cannot dismiss the fact that mobility has become one central research topic in the social sciences. For numerous authors advocating the “Mobility Turn” (Urry 2000; Faist 2013), mobility is a post-disciplinary concept that became an interdisciplinary field of research in the social sciences. The term “mobility” can be used in two different ways: one is spatial (e.g. migration), the other is social (e.g. upward or downward mobility). These two meanings are not exclusive of each other and can sometimes be fruitfully clubbed together, even if it is an often risky challenge and a rarely travelled path. What role has spatial mobility played in the constitution and upward social mobility of certain population categories? What impact has it had on the replication of the dominant position of some ethno-religious groups, in spite of the profound socioeconomic and political transformations South Asia has undergone over the past century? When these two objects of study are considered together, what stands out is the need to think about the complex relations between spatial and social mobility in the particular context of postcolonial societies that have entered the era of “economic emergence”. To address first the recent destiny of spatial mobility, one can observe that, since the 1990s, the emergence and consolidation of the fields of diaspora, transnational and globalization studies, have significantly reshaped the conceptual and methodological frameworks of numerous disciplines. Indeed, several major research projects since early 2000s primarily or exclusively focused on figures of spatial mobility (i.e. refugees, low- and high-skilled migrant workers, cross-border migrants, etc.) and their articulations with dimensions of society (economic and political, social integration and exclusion, displacement and dispossession, gender issues, etc.) during the contemporary period. In the context of globalization, with the acceleration of exchanges, circulations and mobility on a global scale, the relations that individuals and groups entertain with the world and geographic space have evolved. Concepts and methods in social sciences had also to adapt to such new regimes of mobility while renewing their tools of analysis so as to better apprehend the new social dynamics at work. New models and paradigms emerged such as mobility systems (Urry 2000), mobile space (Retaillé 2014), regimes of mobility (Schiller and Salazar 2014), without dismissing the validity of older categories such as that of circulation (Breman 1996). In parallel, new methodological tools have been developed, such as multi-sited and mobile ethnography, visual methods, spatial and statistical analysis, mapping technologies, etc. In the context of South Asian societies, caste, class, structure, stratification and occupational status have been the mainstay of sociological, anthropological and economic research. Research on social mobility in sociology, introduced as early as the 1930’s (Sorokin 1937) in the West, was slow to catch up in South Asia given its specificity. With time, however, social mobility research has gained ground,


taking with it the mainstay concepts along with other pertinent issues of the South Asian society, such as the growing interest in understanding the roots of inequality and discrimination. Studies in inequality and social changes have then taken off rapidly in the recent years (Deaton and Dreze 2002), fostered by the development of powerful conceptual and methodological tools, including the implementation and analysis of large-scale survey data, so that social mobility becomes nowadays one of the main areas of research in social sciences. For this 2016 edition of the Social Sciences Winter School in Pondicherry, we propose to conduct three intensive and disciplinary workshops led by three international teams of scholars. Each of these will propose a different perspective of analysis on mobilities (mainly economics, geography, anthropology, demography) and will focus on specific techniques of investigation, quantitative and/or qualitative. Case studies from India and South Asia but also perspectives from other locations will be presented. Mobility being an interdisciplinary field of research, postgraduates and doctoral students from a variety of disciplinary and institutional backgrounds were selected to join one of the three workshops. This will undoubtedly foster comparative and imaginative thinking about processes of mobility, as well as a reflexive enquiry on methodologies to apprehend their form and extent.

Workshop1 – Documenting Processes of Spatial Mobility: Qualitative and Ethnographic Approaches

Coordinators: Rémy Delage, Aurélie Varrel Invited tutors: Tristan Bruslé, M.A. Kalam, Marie Percot

Workshop 2 – Using Survey Data to Understand Social and Geographical Mobility

Coordinator: Christophe Jalil Nordman Invited tutors: Ashwini Deshpande, Véronique Gille, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Jean-Noël Senne

Workshop 3 – Social Mobility in its Indian Complexity: Conceptual and Methodological Dynamics

Coordinator: Thanuja Mummidi Invited tutors: Venkatesh Athreya, Alexandra De Heering, D.N. Dhanagare, Partha N. Mukherji


Programme

SUNDAY 27 November PARTICIPANTS ARRIVAL MONDAY 28 November PLENARY SESSIONS 9:00-10:00 Registration 10:00-11:00 Formal Inaugural of the Social Sciences Winter School in Pondicherry 2016

Welcome address by Prof. T. S. Naidu, Director, Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Pondicherry University

Presentation of Social Sciences Winter School in Pondicherry 2016: Dr. Thanuja Mummidi (Pondicherry University), Dr. Rémy Delage (CNRS) and Dr. Christophe Jalil Nordman (IRD)

Felicitations: Prof. Anisa Basheer Khan, Vice-Chancellor (Officiating), Pondicherry University Prof. Frédéric Landy, Director, French Institute of Pondicherry Prof. Venkata Raghotham, Dean, School of Social Sciences & International Studies, Pondicherry University Vote of thanks by Dr. Audrey Richard-Ferroudji, Head of Department of Social Sciences, French Institute of Pondicherry

Tea/Coffee break

11:15-12:00 Plenary talk 1

Partha Nath Mukherji, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi; Former Director (Vice Chancellor), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai “Methods and Methodology: Urgent Research on Social Mobility”


Ashwini Deshpande, Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi “Circumstances, Effort or Good Luck: What determines social mobility in India?”

Lunch break



Mohammed Abdul Kalam, Professor of Eminence, Department of Sociology, Tezpur University “Spatial Mobility and Networking: Internal and International Migration Contexts”


Frédéric Landy, Professor, Director, French Institute of Pondicherry “Assessing Social and Spatial Mobility of Farmers in South India (1980s-2010s)”

Tea/Coffee break

16:00-16:30 Synthesis and presentation of the organisation of the week TUESDAY 29 November METHODOLOGICAL WORKSHOPS 9:00-12:30

Workshop 1 - Documenting Processes of Spatial Mobility: Qualitative and Ethnographic Approaches Training team: Rémy Delage, Aurélie Varrel, Tristan Bruslé, M.A. Kalam, Marie Percot

Workshop 2 - Using Survey Data to Understand Social and Geographical Mobility Training team: Christophe Jalil Nordman, Ashwini Deshpande, Véronique Gille, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Jean-Noël Senne

Workshop 3 - Social Mobility in its Indian Complexity: Conceptual and Methodological Dynamics Training team: Thanuja Mummidi, Venkatesh Athreya, Alexandra De Heering, D.N. Dhanagare, Partha N. Mukherji

Lunch break

14:00-17:00

Continued WEDNESDAY 30 November METHODOLOGICAL WORKSHOPS 9:00-12:30

Continued

Lunch break

14:00-17:00

Continued


THURSDAY 1 December METHODOLOGICAL WORKSHOPS 9:00-12:30

Continued

Lunch break

14:00-18:00

Group work: preparation of knowledge/project restitution supervised by the experts FRIDAY 2 December FINAL DAY 9:00-11:00

Knowledge and project presentation by trainees (25 minutes per presentation) Tea/Coffee break 11:30-13:00 Valedictory Address by Prof. M. Ramachandran, Registrar (i/c), Pondicherry University

Delivery of certificates

Feedback from resource persons, students and scientific committee

Vote of thanks

Lunch break

14:00-18:30

Free afternoon in Pondicherry

18:30-22:00

Cocktail dinner at IFP

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Summaries

Talk 1: “Methods and Methodology: Urgent Research on Social Mobility”

By Partha Nath Mukherji, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi Research on social mobility is one of the most urgent and important areas of work. In a society marked by inequities of caste, class, community and gender, it is very important to know how the forces of rapid technological and economic changes are impacting economically exploited and socially discriminated people. Research is ubiquitous. Not all researches, however, are necessarily scientific-academic. The application of methods derived and legitimated by scientific research, ipso facto, does not make a research scientific. To be scientific, research has to relate with the theoretical-conceptual field of abstractions. This requires the application of methodology. Conflating methods with methodology is a common fallacy. Methodology is the application of research method/s consistent with the logic of inquiry by which scientific research has to be carried out to make valid propositions about reality. This distinguishes instrumental/applied research from basic, foundational, fundamental research. Although the two types of researches are analytically separate, they also inter-stimulate each other. Whatever the type of research, they should combine rigour and relevance. Research carried with great rigour may get bogged down with unveiling the obvious; whereas research on very relevant theme or problematic, if done shabbily, will hardly carry weight. Social sciences having originated in the west tend to view the rest of the world through the lens of paradigms that are indigenous to the west. It is necessary to critically assess the problems of parochialism, indigeneity and universality in the social sciences. The problem of objectivity in the social sciences have been voiced. How do we go about it? Does objectivity mean value-neutrality? Is there a ‘captive mind’ syndrome that needs to be addressed? Such questions extend to fieldwork practices. If fieldwork is flawed, research loses on its truth value. Selected references

Mukherji, P.N. (ed.) (2000), Methodology in social research: Dilemmas and perspectives (Essays in honour of Ramkrishna Mukherjee). New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Mukherji, P.N. and C. Sengupta (eds.) (2004), Indigeneity and Universality in Social Science: A South Asian Response. New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Mukherji, P.N. (2012), “Social Mobility and Social Structure: Towards a Conceptual-methodological Re-orientation”. Sociological Bulletin, 61(1), pp. 26-52.


Talk 2: “Circumstances, Effort or Good Luck: What Determines Social Mobility in India?”

By Ashwini Deshpande, Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi This talk will review the literature on inequality of opportunity and social mobility, starting with a brief reference to the international literature, which would provide the context for the evidence for India. The talk will present the macro evidence on intergenerational mobility in education and occupation, along with references to case studies based on selected cities and/or on specific occupations. The talk will also present evidence on the differential patterns of mobility for different social groups. It will end with a discussion of a primary survey conducted by Prof. Ashwini Deshpande in Delhi which gauges interpersonal social mobility, in addition to intergenerational social mobility. Selected references

Azam, M., Bhatt, V. (2015), “Like Father, Like Son? Intergenerational Educational Mobility in India”. Demography, 52(6), pp. 1929-1959.

Krishna, A. 2013. “Making it in India: Examining Social Mobility in Three Walks of Life”. Economic and Political Weekly, XLVIIII, pp. 38-49.

Motiram, S., Singh, A. (2012), “How Close Does the Apple Fall to the Tree? Some Evidence on Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India”. Economic and Political Weekly, 47(40), 56-65.

Corak, M. (2013), “Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility”. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(3), pp. 79-102.

Talk 3: “Spatial Mobility and Networking: Internal and International Migration Contexts”

By Mohammed Abdul Kalam, Professor of Eminence, Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, Tezpur

Being footloose and wandering alone is not a human trait; not in the long term for sure. Individuals do roam about due to wanderlust but the desire to return to their roots is inherent in them. This desire to return to the group is overwhelming irrespective of the level of socio-economic integration. Also, most economic pursuits among early humans were group tasks among both men and women. Being together was a necessity not just for physical reasons of undertaking tasks and for security, but also for social and psychological reasons. Whether we deal with a society at the band level or with any of the highly industrialised ones, the urge to be with the group has never waned during human history and is not likely to, however individualistic a person may turn out to be. In the extreme situation of alienating oneself from a group, such behaviour will be branded as deviance from the norms of a society. The craving to be with one’s own group has in a big way played a role in the construction of the other. The level of discomfort in social contexts is high in situations in which an individual has to exist in the midst of the other. Those who move from their own moorings into the realm of another society experience a degree of alienation and in order to overcome this they look for the familiar so as to bond. Of course there are pioneers in all societies who take the risk of being the first to migrate


to a different locale but subsequent to such pioneering efforts, those who follow suit always look for the known and the familiar in alien situations. That is how networking comes about in spatial mobility irrespective of where such mobility and under what circumstances and in what contexts it occurs. From the Indian (or subcontinental) perspective, factors of village ties, caste and kinship are predominant in the spatial mobility realm. What I have talked about elsewhere as the jump factor operates predominantly in spatial mobility. People skip, that is jump, nearby towns and cities and move to far off places as earlier acquaintance exists in the distant locales. This happens not just in internal migrations but also in international ones in spite of the fact that different sorts of settlement patterns are come across in different town, city and country contexts. Selected references

Harvey, D. (2000), Spaces of Hope. Berkeley, University of California Press.

Kalam, M.A. (2005), “Identity, Space and Territory in India: An Anthropological Perspective”. In P. Gervais-Lambony, F. Landy, S. Oldfield (ed), Reconfiguring Identities and Building Territories in India and South Africa, New Delhi, Manohar.

Racine, J.-L. (ed.) (1997), Peasant Moorings: Village ties and Mobility Rationales in South India. New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Talk 4: “Assessing Social and Spatial Mobility of Farmers in South India (1980s-2010s)”

By Frédéric Landy, Professor, Director of French Institute of Pondicherry Social and economic change in village farms in South India has been dramatic during the last 30 years. Reduced farm size, « upward » and « downward » economic diversification of households, increased spatial mobility correspond to socio-political changes such as new class and caste hierarchies. A review of the literature on longitudinal research (villages revisited after several decades) brings a detailed analysis of these trends. More specifically, social scientists can wonder whether choosing the village as the ideal research level is still relevant given that mobility and migration concern places that may be far from the villagers’ roots. Have notions such as « caste », « village », even « agriculture » the same meaning as 30 years ago? My geographer's view is that yet we should stick to village studies, even though it is necessary to integrate them into research at larger scales. Selected references

Harriss, J., Jeyaranjan, J., Nagaraj, K. (2012), “Rural Urbanism in Tamil Nadu. Notes on a ‘Slater Village’: Gangaikondan, 1916–2012”. Review of Agrarian Studies, 2, 2, online.

Himanshu, Jha, P., Rodgers, G. (éd.) (2016), Longitudinal Research in Village India. Methods and Findings. Oxford University Press.

Landy, F. (2015), “Emiettement des exploitations familiales irriguées du sud de l’Inde”. In P.M. Bosc et al. (éd.), Diversité des agricultures familiales, Quae, pp. 285-300.

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Workshop 1

Documenting Processes of Spatial Mobility:

Qualitative and Ethnographic Approaches Coordinators: ● Dr. Rémy Delage

Geographer (CNRS, CEIAS, Paris)

● Dr. Aurélie Varrel Geographer (IFP, Puducherry; CEIAS)

Invited tutors: ● Dr. Tristan Bruslé

Geographer (CNRS, CSH, New Delhi; Centre for Himalayan Studies)

● Prof. Mohammed Abdul Kalam Anthropologist (Tezpur University, Tezpur)

● Dr. Marie Percot

Anthropologist (Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain, IIAC-LAUM, Paris)

Argument-Purpose This workshop focuses on the theory and practice of ethnographic fieldwork in South Asia and beyond, primarily discussing conceptual and methodological issues regarding the observation, description and analysis of various types of spatial mobilities (daily commuting, seasonal migration, international labour migration, etc.). The paradigm of the opposition between society of departure (homeland) and host society (hostland) being outdated, it is rather in terms of continuity and not rupture with the society of origin that we reason.

While drawing some concepts and innovative tools drawn from French human geography and Anglo-Saxon migration studies, our aim is to provide students with an intensive training course presenting theories, concepts and ethnographic research methods relating to mobility (Day 1). Mobility is not only envisaged as a research object, but also as a fluid process and as an efficient method of investigation, within a network of interlinked field sites. Indeed, historians, anthropologists and geographers share a common method for apprehending migration processes and describing transnational networks, that is the multi-sited and mobile/itinerant ethnography, as introduced and popularized by George Marcus (1995), brilliantly debated, critiqued and practiced by Alessandro Monsutti (2010), and well synthesized by Ester Gallo (2009), Karen O’Reilly (2009) and Novoa (2015), among others. Various case studies focusing on South Asia and diasporic contexts will then complement and illustrate the formal training (Day 2). The third day of the workshop will take the form of a collaborative session between scholars and students during which a research topic will be chosen and defined, developed and finalized into a formal research proposal while using the concepts and methods taught during the first two days (Day 3).


Workshop 1 Schedule

DAY 1 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 SESSION 1 – INTRODUCTION

9:00-10:00 Opening speech and roundtable Introduction to the theme and its methodological implications Contents and objectives of the workshop

SESSION 2 – THEORIES AND CONCEPTS 10:00-11:00 Defining a conceptual repertoire: movement, circulation, migration, globalization 11:00-11:15 Coffee/Tea break

11:15-12:30 How to describe and analyse spatial mobility: from geographical scales and metrics to places and regimes of mobility

12:30-14:00 Lunch SESSION 3 – TOOL BOX

14:00-15:00 General research methodology and ethnographic fieldwork in social sciences 15:00-15:15 Coffee/Tea break

15:15-17:00 Documenting spatial mobilities: the case of multi-sited/mobile/itinerant/travelling ethnography

DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 SESSION 4 – CASE STUDIES

9:00-11:00 Case study 1 – International labour migration and place-making 11:00-11:15 Coffee/Tea break 11:15-12:30 Case study 2 – Gender and transnational migrations 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Case study 3 – Religious circulations and processes of belonging 15:00-15:15 Coffee/Tea break 15:15-17:00 Case study 4 –Beyond remittances: researching on material circulations

DAY 3 – THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 SESSION 5 – PROJECT DYNAMIC

9:00-11:00 Choosing a research topic, defining a research framework, writing a project proposal

11:00-11:15 Coffee/Tea break

11:15-12:30 Choosing a research topic, defining a research framework, writing a project proposal (cont.)

12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Preparation of a PowerPoint presentation 15:00-15:15 Coffee/Tea break 15:15-18:00 Rehearsal for the public restitution

DAY 4 – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 9:00-11:00 11:30-13:00

Group work restitution of project Discussion of the results and the workshops Valedictory


Readings and online resources

Bruslé, T. and Varrel, A. eds. (2012), Revisiting space and place: South Asian migrations in perspective, South Asia Multidisciplinary Journal, 6.

Faist, T. (2013), “The Mobility Turn: a New Paradigm for the Social Sciences?”, Ethnic and Racial

Studies, 36(11), pp. 1637-1646. Gallo, E. (2009), “In the Right Place at the Right Time? Reflections on Multi-Sited Ethnography in the

Age of Migration”, in M.-A. Falzon (ed.), Multi-Sited Ethnography. Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research, Farnham: Ashgate, pp.87-102.

Green, N. (2003), “Migrant Sufis and Sacred Space in South Asian Islam”, Contemporary South Asia,

12(4), pp. 493-509. Levitt, P. and N. Glick Schiller (2004), “Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field

Perspective on Society”, International migration review, 38(3), pp.1002-1039. Ma Mung, E. (2004), “Dispersal as a Resource”, Diaspora: a Journal of Transnational Studies, 13(2-3),

pp. 211-225. Mandaville, P. (2001), Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma, London: Routledge. Markovits, C., Pouchepadass, J. and Subrahmanyam, S. (2003), “Introduction: Circulation and Society

under Colonial Rule”, in C. Markovits, J. Pouchepadass and S. Subrahmanyam (eds.), Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia, 1750-1950, Delhi: Permanent Black, pp. 1-22.

Monsutti, A. (2010), “The Contribution of Migration Studies and Transnationalism to the

Anthropological Debate: A Critical Perspective”, in C. Audebert and K. Doraï (eds.), Migration in a Globalised World: New Research Issues and Prospects, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (IMISCOE Research), pp. 107-125.

Novoa, A. (2015), “Mobile ethnography: emergence, techniques, and its importance to Geography”,

Human Geographies – Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 9(1), pp. 97-107. O’Reilly, K. (2009), Key Concepts in Ethnography. London: SAGE Publications. Rajan, I. S. and Percot, M. eds. (2011), Dynamics of Indian Migration. Historical and Current

Perspectives, New Delhi: Routledge. Retaillé, D. and Walther, O. (2014), New Ways of Conceptualizing Space and Mobility: Lessons from

the Sahel to the Globalized World, CEPS/INSTEAD, Working Paper n° 2012-24. Samaddar, R. (1999), Marginal Nation – Trans-border Migration from Bangladesh to India, New Delhi:

Sage Publications. Schiller, N. G. and Salazar, N. B. (2013), “Regimes of Mobility Across the Globe”, Journal of Ethnic and

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Methods”, Economic and Political Weekly, 43, pp.64-72.

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Routledge. Vertovec, S. (2000), The Hindu Diaspora: Comparative Patterns, London and New York: Routledge.

Students profile

Name Level University Field of research Email

1 Anitha Ravindrakumar

Ph.D. candidate ISEC, Bangalore Sociology [email protected]

2 Arfa Anis M.Phil Delhi University Social Work [email protected]

3 Bhat Iqball Majeed M.Phil Jawaharlal Nehru University Public Health [email protected]

4 Dhritiman Bhuyan M.A. Ambedkar University Environment And Development

[email protected]

5 Divydarshi Jennifer

Ph.D. candidate

Jawaharlal Nehru University Sociology [email protected]

6 Geeta Ph.D. candidate

Jawaharlal Nehru University Social Science [email protected]

7 Kalyani Vartak Ph.D. candidate

Tata Institute Of Social Sciences Sociology [email protected]

8 Noshadali K

Ph.D. candidate

Central University Of Punjab Social Science [email protected]

9 Prabhakar Jayaprakash

Ph.D. candidate

Tata Institute Of Social Sciences Conflict Studies [email protected]

10 Priya Ange Ph.D. candidate EHESS, Paris Social

Anthropology [email protected]

11 Rabiul Ansary Ph.D. candidate

Jawaharlal Nehru University Geography [email protected]

12 Rashmi Snigdha Rout

Ph.D. candidate Pondicherry University Anthropology [email protected]

13 Sadaf Javed Ph.D. candidate

Jawaharlal Nehru University Social Sciences [email protected]

14 Sarada Gopalakrishnan

Ph.D. candidate University Of Madras Agricultural

Economics [email protected]

15 Tanisha Gogoi Ph.D. candidate


16 Upul Sanjeewa Wijepala M.A. University Of Ruhuna,

Matara, Sri Lanka. Sociology [email protected]

17 Yashmine Tabasoom

Ph.D. candidate Pondicherry University Anthropology [email protected]


Workshop 2

Using Survey Data to Understand Social and Geographical Mobility

Coordinator: • Dr. Christophe Jalil Nordman

Economist (IRD, DIAL and IFP, Puducherry) Invited tutors: • Prof. Ashwini Deshpande

Economist (University of Delhi, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi)

• Dr. Véronique Gille Economist (IRD, DIAL, Paris)

• Prof. Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

Economist (Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi)

• Dr. Jean-Noël Senne Economist (Université Paris-Sud, Paris)

Argument-purpose Social and geographical mobility is of growing interest to policy makers and economists and is an expending research field. Economists usually use survey data to understand the determinants and the extent of social and geographical mobility. The analysis of data on social and geographical mobility requires the mobilization of specific knowledge.

In this proposed workshop, trainees will be introduced to the state-of-the-art in social and geographical mobility. The main objective of the course is to review what we know about mobility and what the open questions in this field are. At the end of the course the students will have understood what still needs to be done in this field, as well as the limitations of survey data to study these questions and how to overcome them.

The course will combine interactive lecture sessions and tutorials over the three days. In the lecture sessions students will be exposed to the research frontier in the field of social and geographical mobility. In the tutorial they will be using the statistical software STATA to analyse survey data on social and geographical mobility. The empirical application will be using the National Sample Survey (NSSO) data for India.


Workshop 2 Schedule

DAY 1 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29

9:00-9:30 Opening speech Introduction and objectives of the workshop Presentation of participants

9:30-11:00 Lecture 1 – What do we know about social mobility in India? 11:00-11:15 Coffee break 11:15-12:30 Lecture 1 – What do we know about social mobility in India? (continued) 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Lecture 2 – Introduction to regression analysis 15:40-15:45 Coffee Break 15:45-17:00 Lecture 2 – Introduction to Stata using the NSSO data DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30 9:00-10:30 Lecture 2 – Exercises on Stata using the NSS data 10:30-10:45 Coffee break 10:45-12:30 Lecture 3 – The determinants of migration 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Lecture 3 – Introduction to datasets for migration analysis 15:00-15:15 Coffee Break 15:15-17:00 Lecture 3 – The determinants of migration: application using STATA DAY 3 – THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 9:00-11:00 Lecture 4 – Analysing social mobility in the data 11:00-11:15 Coffee break 11:15-12:30 Lecture 4 – Analysing social mobility in the data: application using STATA 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-18:00 Preparation of the restitution and project by participants DAY 4 – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2

9:00-11:00

Group work restitution of project Discussion of the results and the workshops

11:30-13:00 Valedictory


Readings and online resources Social mobility Deshpande, A. (2007), “Overlapping Identities under Liberalization: Gender and Caste in India”,

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 55(4), pp. 735-760. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/516763

Deshpande, A. (2001), “Caste at birth? Redefining Disparity in India”, Review of Development

Economics, 5(1), pp. 130-144. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9361.00112/pdf

NSSO data:

https://data.gov.in/dataset-group-name/national-sample-survey

Handbook of Social Economics: Benhabib, J., Bisin Alberto, and Jackson, M. eds. (2011), Handbook of Social Economics, Amsterdam:

North-Holland. Chapter 3: Preferences for Status: Evidence and Economic Implications, Ori Heffetz and Robert H. Frank. http://www.nyu.edu/econ/user/bisina/Chapter3_FrankHeffetz.pdf

Chapter 5: Theories of Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action: A Survey, Hanming Fang and Andrea Moro. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~hfang/publication/moro/final.pdf

Chapter 9: The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization, Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier. http://www.igier.unibocconi.it/files/4.pdf

Migration: De Haas, H. (2012), “The Migration and Development Pendulum: a Critical View on Research and

Policy”, International Migration, 50(3), pp. 8-25. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2012.00755.x/abstract?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=

Adams Jr, R. H. (2011), “Evaluating the Economic Impact of International Remittances on Developing

Countries Using Household Surveys: a Literature Review”, Journal of Development Studies, 47(6), pp. 809-828. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00220388.2011.563299

McKenzie, D., and Sasin, M. J. (2007), “Migration, Remittances, Poverty, and Human Capital:

Conceptual and Empirical Challenges”, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 4272. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=999482

Other: Bertrand, M., Hanna, R., and Mullainathan, N. (2009), “Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence from

Engineering College Admission”, Journal of Public Economics, 94(1-2), pp. 16-29. http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/marianne.bertrand/research/papers/AA_India_jpube.pdf

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/516763

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9361.00112/pdf

https://data.gov.in/dataset-group-name/national-sample-survey

http://www.nyu.edu/econ/user/bisina/Chapter3_FrankHeffetz.pdf

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~hfang/publication/moro/final.pdf

http://www.igier.unibocconi.it/files/4.pdf

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2012.00755.x/abstract?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2012.00755.x/abstract?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00220388.2011.563299

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=999482

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/marianne.bertrand/research/papers/AA_India_jpube.pdf


Hnatkovska, V., Lahiri, A. and Paul, S. B. (2012), “Breaking the Caste Barrier, Intergenerational

Mobility in India”, The Journal of Human Resources, 48(2), pp. 435-473. http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/vhnatkovska/Research/Intergen_revrev2.pdf

Students profile


1 Abirami Swaminathan M.A. Pondicherry

University Sociology [email protected]

2 Anamika Das Ph.D. candidate ISEC, Bangalore Population

Studies [email protected]

3 Anshita Sharma Ph.D. candidate

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Population Studies

[email protected]

4 Kalosona Paul Ph.D. candidate

Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Geography and

[email protected]

5 Kalu Naik Ph.D. candidate


Population Studies

[email protected]

6 Mahalaxmi Tiwari Ph.D. candidate

Bharathair University

Sociology & Population

[email protected]

7 N. Pautunthang Ph.D. candidate ISEC, Bangalore Population


8 Ojasvini R Baral Ph.D. candidate

Indian Institute of Dalit Studies Sociology [email protected]

9 Prem shankar Mishra

Ph.D. candidate ISEC, Bangalore Population


10 Priyanaka Kumari Ph.D. candidate

Central University Of Jharkhand

Indigenous Culture

[email protected]

11 Pushpendra Singh Ph.D. candidate IIT Roorkee Economics [email protected]

12 Shivakumar Nayka

Ph.D. candidate ISEC, Bangalore Urban Affairs [email protected]

13 Subhasmita Khuntia

Ph.D. candidate

Pondicherry University

Politics & International

[email protected]

14 Sumit Kumar Ph.D. candidate NEUPA Educational

Finance [email protected]

15 Suruchi Kumari M.Phil Jawaharlal Nehru University Geography [email protected]

http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/vhnatkovska/Research/Intergen_revrev2.pdf


Workshop 3

Social Mobility in its Indian Complexity: Conceptual and Methodological Dynamics

Coordinator: • Dr. Thanuja Mummidi

Anthropologist (Pondicherry University, Puducherry) Invited Tutors: • Prof. Venkatesh Athreya

Economist (Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Chennai)

• Dr. Alexandra De Heering Historian (University of Namur; IFP, Puducherry)

• Prof. D.N. Dhanagare Sociologist (Former Vice Chancellor, Shivaji University, Kolhapur)

• Prof. Partha N. Mukherji

Sociologist (Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi)

Argument-purpose Caste, class, structure, stratification and status have been the mainstay of sociological/social anthropological research on Indian society. Research on social mobility introduced as early as the 1930’s (Sorokin, 1937) in the west was slow to catch up in India in its given specificity. This specificity lies in the challenge of disentangling the mainstay concepts. With time social mobility research in India has progressed taking into consideration new dimensions of inequality. Consequently, social mobility research both from the conceptual and methodological aspects is made dynamic. This workshop hopes to encourage and orient a young generation of research scholars to probe this dynamism.

The workshop follows the following sequence: Day 1 is devoted exclusively to methodology of social science. Day 2 and part of Day 3 follow up with methodological and substantive research and issues in social mobility research specific to India. Day 3 also attempts to initiate the group into thinking over specific research designs as an outcome of the series of lectures. The concluding Day 4 is devoted to Group Work Restitution, sharing workshop experience and results.


Workshop 3 Schedule

DAY 1 – TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29

9:00-9:30 Opening speech - Dr. Thanuja M Introduction and objectives of the workshop Presentation of participants

9:30-11:00 Lecture 1 – Prof. D.N. Dhanagare Meaning of Methodology: epistemological issues in formulating research problem


11:15-12:30

Lectures 2 – Prof. Partha N. Mukherji Methods and Methodology in Social Science Research: Methodological monism to pluralism

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:15 Lecture 3 – Prof. D.N. Dhanagare Historical Method and its application: The case of Migration and social mobility


15:30-17:00 Lecture 4 – Prof. Partha N. Mukherji Conceptual-methodological orientation to social mobility

DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30

9:00-11:15 Lecture 5 – Prof. Venkatesh Athreya Agrarian change and social mobility


11:30-12:30 Lecture 6 – Prof. D.N. Dhanagare Reservation and Social mobility

12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:15

Lecture 7 – Prof. Venkatesh Athreya Agrarian change and social mobility (contd)


15:30-17:00 Lecture 8 – Prof. D.N.Dhanagare Social movement and Social mobility

DAY 3 – THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1

9:00-10:30 Lecture 9 – Dr. Alexandra De Heering Relevance of oral history in the study of social mobility: the case of middle class dalits

10:30-12:30 Discussion – Prof. Partha N. Mukherji Research Design for Social Mobility

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-18:00 Preparation of the restitution and project by participants

DAY 4 – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 9:30-11:00 Group work restitution of project Discussion of the results of the workshops 11:30-13:00 Valedictory

Readings and online resources


Athreya, V.B, G. Djurfeldt and L Staffan. (1990), Barriers Broken: Production Relations and Agrarian Change in Tamil Nadu. Sage: New Delhi.

Benei, V (2010), “To Fairly Tell: Social Mobility, Life Histories, and the Anthropologist”, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 40(2), pp. 199-212.

Carswell, G. and De Neve, G. (2014), “MGNREGA in Tamil Nadu: a story of success and transformation?”, Journal of Agrarian Change, 14 (4), pp. 564-585. ISSN 1471-0358

Carswell, Grace M and De Neve, Geert (2013), “From Field to Factory: Tracing Bonded Labour in the Coimbatore Powerloom Industry, Tamil Nadu”, Economy and Society, 42(3), pp. 430-454. ISSN 0308-5147

C.J. Fuller and H. Narasimhan, (2008), “From Landlords to Software Engineers: Migration and Urbanization Among Tamil Brahmans”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 50(1), pp. 170-196.

De Neve, Geert (2015), “Predatory Property: Urban Land Acquisition, Housing and Class Formation in Tiruppur, South India”, Journal of South Asian Development, 10(3), pp. 345-368. ISSN 0973-1741

Dhanagare, D.N. (2016). Populism and Power: Farmers Movement in western India, 1980-2014. Routledge: Oxon.

Djurfeldt, G. , V.B. Athreya, et.al., (2008), “Agrarian Change and Social Mobility in Tamil Nadu”, Economic and Political Weekly, pp. 50-61.

Gupta, Dipankar (Ed.), (1992), Social Stratification (2nd enlarged edition), New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Krishna, A. (2014), “Examining the Structures of Opportunity and Social Mobility in India: Who Becomes an Engineer”, Development and Change, 45(1), pp. 1-28.

Mukherji, P. N. (2004), “Introduction: Indigeneity and Universality in Social Science”, in Partha N. Mukherji, P. N. and Chandan Sengupta (Eds), Indigeneity and Universality in Social Science: A South Asian Perspective, New Delhi, Sage Publications, pp. 15-65.

Mukherji, P.N.( 2012), “Social Mobility and Social Structure: Towards a Conceptual-methodological Re-orientation”, Sociological Bulletin, 61(1), pp. 26-52.

Naudet, Jules, (2008), “Paying Back to Society: Upward Social Mobility Among Dalits”, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 42, No, 3, pp. 413-41

Osella, F and C. Osella, (2000) Social Mobility in Kerala: Modernity and Identity in Conflict. Pluto Press, London.

Shah, Ghanshyam, Harsh Mander, Sukhdeo Thorat, Satish Deshpande and Amita Baviskar (2006), Untouchability in Rural India. New Delhi, Sage Publications.

Sharma, K.L. (Ed.) (1986), Social Stratification in India, New Delhi: Manohar Publication.

http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/47671/








Sharma, K.L.(Ed.) (1995), Social Inequality in India - Profiles of Caste, Class, Power and Social Mobility, Essays in Honour of Professor Yogendra Singh, Jaipur: Rawat Publications. (especially articles by K.N. Sharma, Nandu Ram, and also by C. Rajgopalan and Jaspal Singh.

Vaid, D. (2014). Class and Social Mobility. Seminar 663. http://www.india-seminar.com/2014/663/663_divya_vaid.htm

Students profile


1 Anish K.K Ph.D. candidate

Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Development Studies

[email protected]

2 Archana Ph.D. candidate


Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy

[email protected]

3 Durgesh Solanki M.Phil. Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Social Exclusion & Inclusion

[email protected]

4 Ektaa Jain Ph.D. candidate


5 Kavya Nirman Ph.D. candidate

Jawaharlal Nehru University Political Science [email protected]

6 Lesley Branagan Ph.D. candidate

Leipzig University, Germany

Social Anthropology

[email protected]

7 Namrata Choudhury

Ph.D. candidate


Law and Governance

[email protected]

8 Priyakrushna Mohanty

Ph.D. candidate

Pondicherry University Tourism [email protected]

9 Rahul Kumar Singh

Ph.D. candidate

Banaras Hindu University Sociology [email protected]

10 Reena Nain Ph.D. candidate


Social Science in Health

[email protected]

11 Sana Aziz Ph.D. candidate Delhi University History [email protected]

12 Saubhagyalaxmi Singh

Ph.D. candidate

Pondicherry University Sociology [email protected]

13 Shifa Khan M.A. Jamia Millia Islamia Social Work [email protected]

14 Sreya Majumdar Ph.D. candidate

Pondicherry University

Social Anthropology

[email protected]

15 Yves-Marie Rault Ph.D. candidate

Université de Paris 7 Diderot Geography [email protected]

http://www.india-seminar.com/2014/663/663_divya_vaid.htm


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Acronyms and abbreviations

CEIAS – Centre for South Asian Studies, Paris CNRS – French National Scientific Centre CSH – Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, New Delhi DIAL – Development, Institutions and Globalization EHESS – Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales IIAC-LAUM – Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain - Laboratoire d’anthropologie urbanités mondialisations IFP – French Institute of Pondicherry IIT – Indian Institute of Technology IRD – French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development JNU – Jawaharlal Nehru University MAE – French Ministry of Foreign Affairs NSSO – National Sample Survey Organization NUEPA – National University of Educational Planning and Administration PALOC – Patrimoine Locaux et Gouvernance (IRD-Museum of Natural History research unit), Paris PSL – Paris Research University, France STATA – Data analysis and statistical software UGC – University Grant Commission UMR – Mixed Research Unit

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Bios of the experts VENKATESH BALASUNDARAM ATHREYA has made a remarkable contribution to the growth of Department of Economics at Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli where he served from 1977 to 2008 when he retired. He has also held faculty positions/Fellowships/Visiting Scholarships in a number of reputed academic institutions in India and abroad. These include the University of Wisconsin and Bucknell University in the USA, Oxford University and the University of Cambridge in UK, Lund University in Sweden, the Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen, IIT, Chennai, MIDS, Chennai and CDS, Thiruvananthapuram. He has written over a hundred research papers including several research reports and monographs. He has authored/coauthored five books. He has been actively involved in the areas of gender, literacy and development as both planner and social activist. He has won a number of awards and honours, the most recent one being the Distinguished Achievement Award for Political Economy in the 21st Century by the World Association of Political Economy in May 2014. TRISTAN BRUSLÉ is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Himalayan Studies of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), currently based at the Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH, New Delhi). His PhD dissertation in human geography (2006) examined temporary Nepalese migrations to India, processes and integration. In the research project TerrFerme (financed by the French National Research Agency), he got interested in labour migration from Nepal to the Gulf, with a special focus on lodging patterns and the multiple ways workers’ lives are controlled. As part of other projects he has also studied the Nepalese diaspora in Assam and developed a comprehensive analysis of the Nepalese digital diaspora through the study of websites and their interconexions. As a member of a running research project (TerreEau) focusing on peasantry, his current research addresses the impact of labour outmigration on sending communities in the Nepalese lowlands (Terai), especially regarding land ownership. RÉMY DELAGE is a Research Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS-EHESS, Paris) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). His work focuses on the role of religious circulations (processions, pilgrimages, journeys) in structuring places and territorial belonging in India and Pakistan. After a PhD centred on an in-depth study of a Hindu mass religious gathering in South India, he joined the French Interdisciplinary Study Group on Sindh (MIFS), headed by Dr. Michel Boivin. It provided him with the opportunity to develop, within a multidisciplinary team of researchers, an ambitious project looking at processes of social and religious changes in one of the most important Sufi pilgrimage centres in contemporary Pakistan. Dr. Delage published with Dr. Michel Boivin an edited book Devotional Islam in Contemporary South Asia: Shrines, Journeys and Wanderers (Routledge, London, 2016), and recently co-edited with Mathieu Claveyrolas Religion and its Territories in South Asia and Beyond. Traversing, Performing, Overstepping (EHESS Editions, Paris, forthcoming in late 2016). ALEXANDRA DE HEERING is a post-doctoral researcher in history at the French Institute of Pondicherry, and at the University of Namur (Belgium). She works mainly on Dalit history, and is interested in the ways oral history can contribute to the enrichment of this area of research by bringing in new types of materials and by giving rise to new research questions. Her Ph.D. focused specifically on the Cakkiliyars’ past(s) and memories in rural Tamil Nadu and will soon be published in English. She is


currently starting a new project in Bangalore on “middle class Dalits”, that intends to examine the personal and familial histories and memories of Dalits having experienced upward social/economic mobility. Overall, she has an inclination to explore, as well as a strong interest in, all types of alternate sources for history such as oral testimonies, old photographs, etc. D.N. DHANAGARE has taught at the Institute of Social Sciences, Agra University (1961–68), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1968–77), and University of Poona, Pune (1977–95). He also served as Member-Secretary of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi (on deputation from 1991–93), and as Vice-Chancellor, Shivaji University, Kolhapur (1995–2000). He was invited by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla as National Fellow (2012–14), during which he completed the writing of Populism and Power: Farmers’ movement in western India, 1980-2014(2016). He completed his Masters in Sociology from Nagpur University and D. Phil. from the University of Sussex. His research interests broadly span agrarian sociology, sociology of social movements and development sociology. His books include Peasant Movements in India, c. 1920–1950(1983); Themes and Perspectives in Indian Sociology (1993); The Missing Tradition: Debates and Discourses in Indian Sociology (2014). ASHWINI DESHPANDE is Professor of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. She works on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action issues, with a focus on caste and gender in India. She has published extensively in leading scholarly journals. She is the author of Grammar of Caste: economic discrimination in contemporary India, OUP, 2011 and Affirmative Action in India, OUP, Oxford India Short Introductions series, 2013. She is the editor of Boundaries of Clan and Color: Transnational Comparisons of Inter-Group Disparity (along with William Darity, Jr.), Routledge, London, 2003; Globalization and Development: A Handbook of New Perspectives, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2007 (hardcover) and 2010 (paperback); Capital Without Borders: Challenges to Development, Anthem Press, UK, 2010 (hardcover) and 2012 (paperback) and Global Economic Crisis and the Developing World (with Keith Nurse), Routledge, London, 2012. She received the EXIM Bank award for outstanding dissertation (now called the IERA Award) in 1994, and the 2007 VKRV Rao Award for Indian economists under 45. VÉRONIQUE GILLE is a Research Fellow at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD). She holds a PhD in economics from University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2013) and joined IRD in 2016, after a post-doctoral position at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). She is part of the research lab “DIAL” in Paris (France) and her field is development economics. She is interested in the role that identity and social groups play in the behavior and outcomes of individuals. Her main focus has been on how castes in India influence individual behavior in the context of affirmative action policies. She is also interested in gender issues and is currently working on the measurement of sex-selective abortion in India. MOHAMMED ABDUL KALAM is a Professor of Eminence in the Department of Sociology at the Tezpur Central University in Assam. Before moving to Tezpur he was Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Madras, Chennai. While at the University of Madras he was also the Chairperson of the School of Social Sciences as also an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Ocean and Coastal Studies. He has researched extensively in Kodagu (Coorg) District of Karnataka on Family, Land Tenure, and Sacred Groves. He has also worked on Religious and Linguistic Minorities, and


Religious Conversions. His other research is on Seasonal Migration of Labour, and Internal and International Migrations. He has carried out anthropological fieldwork in England, France and the USA among the South Asian diaspora. He has collaborated with French scholars in Indo-French projects that have resulted in significant publications both in French and in English. He has been a Visiting Professor at the MSH, Paris, as well as at the University of Paris X. Also, he has held visiting positions at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Duke University and Harvard University in the USA, and the London School of Economics, UK. He has published books/monographs, contributed book chapters and has published widely in national and international journals. FRÉDÉRIC LANDY is the new Director of the French Institute of Pondicherry. He had been teaching social geography at the University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre, France, since 1992. He is a fellow of the UMR LAVUE laboratory, and an associate fellow of the Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS), Paris. He has authored several books and articles on Indian agriculture, rural issues, slum policies. He was the coordinator of a French National Agency for Research (ANR)-supported project entitled "Urban National Parks in Emerging Countries" (UNPEC, 2012-16) that compared the national parks in Mumbai, Nairobi, Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. He is now coordinating the Indian case study (in Uttarakhand) of another ANR project entitled “Whose Landscape in Asia?” (AQAPA) focused on the relationships between minorities, landscape, agriculture and tourism in rural highlands of India, Nepal, China, Laos and Vietnam. PARTHA NATH MUKHERJI, sociologist, is Professor Emeritus, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. Currently, he is working on his research on democratic decentralisation (Panchayati Raj) based on field research in Punjab, and on the issue of agriculture versus industry in West Bengal (Singur case study). He has done pioneering work on social movements (agrarian, Gandhian, Maoist); on international migration (refugee influx during Bangladesh independence struggle). He has worked on sociology of rural labour (National Commission for Rural Labour); research methodology and theoretical concerns related to conflict, structure and change; on issues of indigeneity and universality; gender concerns; theoretical issues relating to nation-state and social mobility. He has taught/researched in Patna University; Delhi School of Economics, Department of Sociology; Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, New Delhi; Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and Delhi. ABHIROOP MUKHOPADHYAY is Associate Professor, Economics and Planning Unit, at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI, Delhi). He holds a PhD from Pennsylvania State University (2004). His primary specialization is in econometric methods applied to topics in the field of education in developing countries (especially India). Recent topics of research include the impact of better school infrastructure on rural schooling attendance, how to design teacher transfer programmes and the impact of the distribution of human capital on growth and development. He has also worked on issues related to public policy: in particular, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), a big public workfare programme in India: the political economy of its implementation and the effects of NREGS on education and borrowing. In the past, he has also worked on issues related to health: the economic effects of HIV-AIDS and Cancer (Health).


THANUJA MUMMIDI is currently Assistant Professor at the Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Pondicherry University. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Madras, India. In 2006 she was awarded the Urgent Anthropology Fellowship by the Royal Anthropological Institute, U.K. for Postdoctoral research on the indigenous population and development intervention. She later collaborated with the Rural Employment and Microfinance (RUME) programme of the French Institute of Pondicherry in researching the impact of income generating activities on women and their empowerment. She also coordinated a project on ‘Forms of Money with the Konda Reddis' funded by the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, UCl, Irvine. Her specialization lies at the interface of economic and ecological anthropology, adivasi groups, food sovereignity and inclusive policy. CHRISTOPHE JALIL NORDMAN is Research Fellow at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), and is currently assigned to IFP (Pondicherry, India) and DIAL (Paris, France). He holds a PhD in development economics from University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has an expertise in socio-economic data collection and analysis, especially household and firm level data. His research focuses on the functioning of labour markets in developing countries, including the formation of earnings, skills and social networks, discrimination, employment and household vulnerabilities, and the labour consequences of migrations. His former regional focus was North and West Africa, Madagascar, Vietnam and Bangladesh, where he has acquired over the years an extensive field experience, set up research networks and conducted numerous research projects. He is currently in charge of a socio-economic data collection project within the Social Sciences Department at IFP focusing on households’ financial practises, labour, skills, social networks and mobilities in rural Tamil Nadu (LAKSMI project). JEAN-NOËL SENNE is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University Paris Sud – Paris Saclay and a research associate at the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD-DIAL). He holds a MSc in Economics from the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and an Advanced Degree in Statistics from the French Graduate School of Economics and Statistics (ENSAE). He received a PhD from the Paris School of Economics in 2013. Before that, he worked for two years as a technical advisor for the Education System Analysis Program (PASEC) of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie in Senegal. His research focuses on education and migration issues in developing countries, with a strong focus on intra-household decision-making and the determinants of migration and remittances. His work is based on extensive fieldwork in Sub-Saharan Africa and innovative survey designs, involving the collection of longitudinal and migrant-origin household matched data. His most recent research investigates the concept of targeted transfers and their impact on changing remittance behaviors. AURÉLIE VARREL is a Research Fellow at CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research, France), currently on assignment at the Department of Social Sciences of the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP), India. She is a geographer by training with a specialization in migration studies and urban studies in India. Her research interests in the field of migration studies are: gender and migration; highly skilled / professional Indian migrants; transnational material and immaterial flows in the Indian diaspora; diasporic/ethnic business. Besides migration-related topics, she also has a keen interest in urban studies, with a special focus on Bangalore and Chennai metropolitan dynamics. Before joining IFP, she did her PhD at MIGRINTER, University of Poitiers (France), then she was with the Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2010-2014).


Institutional partners and funding bodies

Pondicherry University, India http://www.pondiuni.edu.in

French Institute of Pondicherry, India http://www.ifpindia.org/

French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, France http://en.ird.fr/ird.fr

Paris Research University, Paris https://www.univ-psl.fr/en

Centre for South Asian Studies, Paris http://ceias.ehess.fr/

Development, Institutions and Globalization, Paris http://www.dial.ird.fr/

http://www.pondiuni.edu.in/

http://www.ifpindia.org/

http://en.ird.fr/ird.fr

https://www.univ-psl.fr/en


http://www.dial.ird.fr/



Organization committees Three committees have been formed for the implementation of this event. Steering Committee Preparation and monitoring of the event has been handled by the steering committee composed of three experienced researchers in social sciences research and training:

Dr. Thanuja Mummidi, Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Pondicherry University; Dr. Christophe Jalil Nordman, IRD, DIAL and IFP; Dr. Rémy Delage, CNRS, CEIAS, associated with the IFP.

The role of this committee is to ensure a constant information flow and strategic communication among various institutional partners and donors, to prepare funding proposals and to scientifically coordinate the event from its inception until the publication of proceedings. Scientific Committee The scientific committee has been established to suggest and discuss the topic of each edition and the content of the training workshops. It includes the three members of the steering committee, other members from selected institutional partners, including IFP and Pondicherry University.

Prof. Venkata Raghotham (Historian) Dean School of Social Sciences, Pondicherry University

Prof. Frédéric Landy (Geographer) Director French Institute of Pondicherry

Prof. T. S. Naidu (Anthropologist) Director Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Pondicherry University

Dr. Audrey Richard (Sociologist) Head Department of Social Sciences French Institute of Pondicherry

Dr. Thanuja Mummidi (Anthropologist) Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Pondicherry University

Dr. Ines G. Zupanov (Historian) Director CNRS-CEIAS/EHESS

Dr. A. Chidambaram (Social Work) Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Pondicherry University

Dr. Zoe Headley (Anthropologist) Research Fellow CNRS-CEIAS/EHESS Associated with the IFP

Prof. B.B. Mohanty (Sociologist) Department of Sociology Pondicherry University

Dr. Rémy Delage (Geographer) Research Fellow CNRS-CEIAS/EHESS Associated with the IFP


Prof. K. Rajan (Archaeologist) Department of History Pondicherry University

Dr. Christophe Jalil Nordman (Economist) Research Fellow IRD, DIAL, IFP

Prof. A. Chella Perumal (Anthropologist) Department of Anthropology, Pondicherry University

Dr. Anne Casile (Archaeologist) Research Fellow IRD, PaLoc, IFP

Prof. M. Ramachandran (Economist) Department of Economics Pondicherry University

Dr. Flore Gubert (Economist) Head of Department of Social Sciences of IRD

Organizing Committee An organizing committee composed of faculty, research associates and assistants, students, administrators and engineers from IFP and Pondicherry University monitor the communication, manage the website and handle all the logistical aspects of the event.


Practical information On arrival

The registration and payment of fees will happen at 9 am on Monday 28th November, 2016, before the inaugural and plenary sessions.

Lodging

The experts will be lodged at the Patricia Guest House, Rue Francois Martin Street, Pondicherry and Convention Guesthouse, Pondicherry University whereas the students will be housed in Pleasant Inn, Rangapillai Street, Pondicherry.

Timings

First session starts 9:00

Lunch 12:30

Last session ends 17:00 (except on Thursday, 18:00)

Dinner 19:00

Plenary and training sessions

The inaugural, plenary, and restitution sessions on Monday November 28 and Friday December 2nd will be held in the Seminar Hall (1st floor) at the School of Social Sciences and International Studies, Pondicherry University.

The three workshops from Tuesday November 29 to Thursday December 1st will be held at the IFP house in Pondicherry.

All students and participants are expected to be punctual. Attendance of the integrality of workshops and plenary sessions is compulsory.

Checking out

All participants need to check out from the guesthouses and hotel at noon on Saturday 3rd December.

Contacts of the local organizing team

Enya Khanna: +91 94 42 34 62 76 Subra Roy Chowdhury: +91 75 98 24 99 07 Thanuja Mummidi: +91 94 43 49 42 04 Christophe Jalil Nordman: +91 70 94 38 48 45 Anne Casile: +91 97 86 27 91 64


Pondicherry University map French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP)


French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) to Patricia Guest House

French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) to Pleasant In Hotel

Documents

SOCIAL S W S 2016 - Sites d'unités de recherche / IRD2016+booklet.pdfDecember 2016), three workshops à ... Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University (13), Delhi University (2), Ambedkar