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Ratheesh Kumar

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@mail.jnu.ac.in, rpkratheesh@gmail.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
Patents (if any)

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A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.