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Title
Dr.
First
Rajni
Last
Palriwala
Photograph
Name
Name
Designation
Professor
Department
Sociology
Address (Campus)
Department of Sociology, University of Delhi,
Delhi 110007
(Residence) D 2/8 Cavalry Lane, University of Delhi, Delhi
110007
Phone No (Campus)
27667858
(Residence)optional
Mobile
Fax
27667858
Email
[email protected]
Web-Page
Education
Subject
Institution
Year
Details
Ph.D.
University of Delhi
1990
Ph.D.
M.Phil. in Sociology
University of Delhi
1979
Dipl. in Social
University of Sussex
1978
Anthropology
M.A. Sociology
Jawaharlal Nehru University
1977
B.Sc (Hons.) Physics
Miranda House, University
1975
of Delhi
Career Profile
Organisation / Institution
Designation
Duration
Role
Department of Sociology,
Professor
10 years
Head (2007-10); Dean, Social Sciences
University of Delhi
(2010)
-doReader
7 years
-doLecturer/Senior
9 years
Lecturer
-doResearch Associate
4 years
Miranda House/University of Lecturer
5 months
Delhi
Institute of Cultural Studies/
Visiting/Affiliated
1.5 years
Research, Teaching
CNWS, University of Leiden Fellow
International Institute of
Affiliated Fellow
1.5 years
Asian Studies, The
Research
Netherlands
Areas of Interest / Specialization
Gender; Kinship; Care; State and Citizenship; Social Movements; Agrarian Structures; Sociology of Emotion;
Fieldwork Methodology; Comparative Sociology.
Subjects/Courses Taught
(MA): Political Sociology; Economic Sociology; Religion and Society; Sociology of Kinship; Gender and Society;
Sociology of India I and II; Sociology of Development; Area Studies: China; Sociological Theories. (M.Phil.):
Women in Indian Society; Sociology of India: Problems of Research; Studying the State.
Publications (last five years)
Books / Monographs
Year of
Title
Publisher
Co-Author
Publicatio
n
2013
Marrying in South Asia: Shifting concepts,
Changing Practices in a Globalised World
Orient BlackSwan
Ravinder Kaur
(ed.)
2008.
Planning Families, Planning Gender: The
Adverse Child Sex Ratio in Selected Districts of
Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal
Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab.
Books for Change
Mary E. John,
Ravinder Kaur,
Saraswati Raju,
Alpana Sagar
2008
Marriage, Migration, and Gender.
Ne
w Delhi: Sage
Co-ed: Patricia
Uberoi)
Journal
Co-Author
In Indexed/ Peer Reviewed Journals
Year of
Title
Publication
2011
Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in
India through the Lens of Childcare
Development and N. Neetha
Change
42(4):
1049-1078
2010
The Absence of State Law: Domestic
Workers in India
Canadian Jl. of N. Neetha
Women and the
Law
23(1):97119.
2010
Care Arrangements and bargains:
Anganwadi and paid domestic workers
in India.
International
Labour Review
149(4):511-527
2009
Dispensing with Daughters: Technology,
Society, Economy in North India
N. Neetha
Economic
and Mary E. John,
Political Weekly, Ravinder Kaur,
11 April, 44 (15): Saraswati Raju
16-19.
Articles (in the last five years)
1. 2013 "Loving and Leaving: Single Parents in the Netherlands", In Dirk Wiemann and Lars Eckstein
(eds.) The Politics of Passion: Reframing Affect and Emotion in Global Modernity. Frankfurt: Peter
Lang Academic Research.
2. 2012 (with N. Neetha) "Between the State, Market and Family: Structures, Policies and Practices of
Care in India", In S. Razavi and S. Staab (eds.) Worlds Apart: Global Variations in the Political and
Social Economy of Care. London: Routledge.
3. 2012. (with N. Neetha) "Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in India through the Lens of
Childcare." In Shahra Razavi (ed.) Seen, Heard and Counted: Rethinking Care in a Development
Context. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. (Reprint of article in Development and Change)
4. 2010 (with N.Neetha) „Unpaid Care Work: Analysis of the Indian Time Use Data‟, In D. Budlender
(ed.) Time Use Studies and Unpaid Care Work. New York and Abingdon: Routledge.
5. 2010. „Gendering Sociological Practice: A Case Study of Teaching in the University, In B.S. Baviskar And
Tulsi Patel (eds.) Understanding Indian Society- Past and Present: Essays in Honour of A.M. Shah. New
Delhi, Orient Blackswan,
6. 2010 „The Anti-Dowry Movement in Delhi‟, In T. K. Oommen (ed.) Social Movements II: Concerns of Equity
and Security. (Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology) New Delhi, Oxford University
Press,
7. 2009. „The Spider‟s Web: Seeing dowry, fighting dowry‟, In T. Bradley, E. Tomalin and M. Subramaniam
(eds.) Dowry: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice. New Delhi: Women Unlimited.
8. 2008 (With P. Uberoi) “Exploring the links: Gender issues in marriage and migration”, In
Marriage, Migration, and Gender. New Delhi: Sage.
Conference Presentations/Organised (in the last five years)
Presentation on "Shame; Gaze, Nudity, Veil and Abuse" at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New
Delhi, Academic Congress on Understanding Gender: Issues of Justice and Freedom, March
2014.
Presentation on "Femicon: Women and Super Hero Comics" at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New
Delhi, Academic Congress on Understanding Gender: Issues of Justice and Freedom, March
2014.
"Trajectories in the discourse on care: Accounting for domestic work" at the workshop entitled, Worlds of
Women's Labour: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Perspectives, Organised by the Centre of
Women's Studies, Delhi and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai at TISS, Mumbai,
February 2014.
Presentation. "State of the discipline" at the National Seminar on ICSSR Research Survey and Explorations
in Sociology and Social Anthropology, held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, February 2014.
Keynote Address - "Gender, care practices, and state policy: The hierarchies of work, family, and
community in India", at the 5th International "Community, Work and Family" conference, held at
Sydney University, Sydney. July 2013.
"Rationality, instrumentality, and the affective: Crossings and blurrings in relations of care and intimacy"
at the international conference on "Life and Humanity in Late Modern Transformation: Beyond
East and West", Seoul National University, Seoul. May 2013
"Gender and the study of emotion" at a panel on"Feminist Explorations of Knowledge: Present and Future
of Engendered Anthropology" Sociology Seminar Series, South Asian University. April 2013.
"Gender, marginalization, and communalism" at a national symposium on "Marginalisation, Communalism
and Religion", Department of Sociology, NEHU, Shillong. March 2013.
"Family Ideologies, Paid Work, and Care in Urban India" at an international workshop on "Urbanization
and Migration in Transnational India: Work and Family Life from a Welfare Perspective", held at
ISEC, Bangalore, organized by ISEC, Lund University, SASNET, and Nordic Centre in India.
March 2013.
"Gender, Marriage and Family Relations under globalization", at a seminar entitled, "Impact of
Globalisation on Indian Society", Organised by Jansanskriti, at Muktadhara Auditorium, February
2013
"Modernity, globalisation and cosmopolitanism" at an international conference entitled, " Sociology
Matters: Challenges and Possibilities of Social Science Knowledge in Contemporary India ",
CSSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University. January 2013.
"Children's Right to Family", Keynote Speaker at the Annual Event of Butterflies, held at IIC, Delhi.
December 2012.
“Gender, migration, and care: Case studies from North India” at a panel on “Care, welfare and migration”
at the 85th annual meeting of the Japan Sociological Society conference in Hokkaido, Japan.
November 2012.
“Has the gender contract in marriage changed? Thoughts from India on the conjugal contract”, in a panel
on "Family, Kinship and the domestic: Sites of gendered power”, at a conference entitled, Gender,
Anthropology, and the Political Economy of Development: A celebration of the work of Anne
Whitehead. September 2012.
“Counting Women‟s Unaccounted Contribution through Time Use Studies” at an expert group meeting on
the theme orgnaised by Manusher Jonno Foundation, Dhaka. August 2012.
“Marriage in South Asia: Iterations and transformations” (with Ravinder Kaur) at the Panel on Marriage
in South Asia: Practices and Transformations”, at the 22nd EASAS, held at Lisbon, July 2012.
'Change as cosmopolitanism? Culture, agency and the social'. Lecture at the summer school on
Minor Cosmopolitanisms at the University of Potsdam. Also co-conducted a workshop on
Minor Mobilities as part of the summer school. July 2012.
'India Family Survey Questionnaire' Presentation at the workshop on the Asian Family Survey:
Methods and Methodolgies, held at the Institute of Family and Gender Studies, Hanoi on
20-21 February, 2012.
Lecture on “Ethnography and Feminist Research” at a workshop on Feminist Research
Methodology, a post-conference event of the XXXVII All India Sociological Conference,
held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, organised by RC-10 (ISS) and the Rajiv Gandhi
National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur. December, 2011
Lecture on “Gender and/in Ethnography” and resource person at the workshop for young
sociologists, entitled Doing Research, doing ethnography, a pre-conference programme of
the XXXVII All India Sociological Conference held at the IIT, Delhi. December 2011.
"Has the gender contract in marriage changed?", at a workshop on Placing Children at the
Centre: Future Social Policies for India, organised by the Institute for Human
Development and UNICEF India at the IIC Annexe, New Delhi. September 2011.
“Missing girls? Trends and concerns in India” at the international seminar on Missing girls in
South Asia: Trends and Challenges, organized by BRAC University, held in Rajendrapur,
Bangladesh. July 2011.
“Government Advocacy and Communication on the Girl Child and Sex Selection” at a
consultation on “Government Advocacy, Communication, and Media Messaging”
organised by the Working Group on Gender and declining sex ratio in India of the
National Advisory Committee, held at SAIL, Delhi. July 2011.
“Falling Child Sex Ratios and Related Concerns”, Public lecture, organized by the Indian School
of Women‟s Studies and Development at Muktadhara Hall, New Delhi. April 2011.
“Liberalisation, state responsibility and the struggle for the rights of domestic workers” Keynote
address at a convention of Domestic Workers organised by AIDWA, Bhopal. April, 2011.
„Stratified familialism: The organization and practices of childcare in India‟ at the conference on
Shifting Boundaries of Care Provision in Asia: Policy and Practice Changes held at the
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore on 14-15 March, 2011.
„Childcare and elderly care in India and The Netherlands: Internal and cross-cultural comparisons‟, at a
workshop on Long term care: Family support, professional care-work and social policies held at
the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, under the European Studies Programme, University of Delhi,
Department of Sociology. June 2010.
„Care bargains and care practices: A social and political economy of care in India‟ in a lecture series on
Gender Issues in Indian Science at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. March,
2010.
“Love, care, and relatedness: A research proposal” at the Inaugural Workshop of the European Studies
Programme, at the University of Delhi, January 2010.
Conducted a workshop on developing a research design for a study on the sex ratio and on Qualitative
Methods in Social Science Research, in December 2009, at the BRAC Development Institute,
BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
“Conceptual Concerns in Care” at a workshop entitled, „Who Cares for the Child? Gender and the Care
Regime in India’ on 7-9 December, 2009 with ISST and UNICEF.
“Mapping the care diamond in India” at a workshop entitled, „Who Cares for the Child? Gender and the
Care Regime in India’ on 7-9 December, 2009 with ISST and UNICEF.
“Gendered familialism, social policy, and child care in India” at a at the Symposium on „Political Economy
of Care in Asian Societies’ held as part of the Kyoto University GCOE symposium Family and
Intimacy in Asia, November 2009.
“The other side of diversity or cultural pluralism is as patriarchy does”. Presented at the The 3rd NRCT –
ICSSR Joint Seminar on „Cultural Pluralism and Diversity in Contemporary Asian Societies’,
held at Chiangmai, Thailand, August, 2009. Another version of this paper was presented at the 35th
All India Sociological Conference, Research Committee 03: Economy, Polity and Society, held at
the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, October 2009
“In Search of love: Becoming a Single Parent in Netherlands”, Sociological Research Colloquium, Department
of Sociology, University of Delhi. September, 2009.
“Caught between a rock and a hard place: The risks of passion and the security of the mundane” at an
international workshop on „The Politics of Passion’, held at the University of Potsdam, July 2009.
“State, Market, Family: The Care Regime in India”. IHC – ISST Gender Policy Forum, India Habitat
Centre, May 2009.
“Stratified Familialism: The Care Diamond in India”, at a conference on „The Political and Social
Economy of Care’ organised by UNRISD and the Barnard Centre for Research on Women at
Barnard College, New York, March 2009.
“Care without Carers? State Policy in India” at a session on „Who Cares? The Role of Families, States,
Markets and Communities in Care Provision. New Evidence from UNRISD Research’. Committee
on the Status of Women parallel event, UN Headquarters, New York. March 2009.
Public Service / University Service / Consulting Activity
Member, Board of Governors, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi
Member, Executive Committee, Indian School of Women's Development and Studies
Member, Editorial Board, Women’s Equality
Association With Professional Bodies
Indian Sociological Society,
Indian Association of Women‟s Studies
Editorial Board, Sociological Inquiry
Life Member, Centre for Women‟s Development Studies, New Delhi
Research Projects (Major Grants / Collaborations/Consultant)
Transformations in Everyday Life and Gender: Life Histories of elderly women in India. In collaboration with
Kyoto University, Miyagi-gakuin University, Sendai, Niigata International University, Niigata, and Shibaura
Institute of Technology, Tokyo.
India Family Survey, covering Rohtak, Delhi, Chennai, as part of the Asian Family Survey. In collaboration with
Kyoto University, Japan, and Society for Economic and Social Studies, New Delhi.
Member, Advisory Core Group for the Study entitled, „Need Assessment for Creches and Childcare Services‟ ,
being conducted by FORCES.
UNRISD funded “The Social and Political Economy of Care in India” In collaboration with Society for Economic
and Social Studies, New Delhi.
Action-Aid/IDRC study: Adverse Sex Ratio in Select Districts of Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan,
Haryana, Punjab.
IDPAD –funded research project on "The impact of a changing social welfare system on relations within
marriage, family, and social networks in the Netherlands and the public debate on this process" in
collaboration with Leiden University and Bombay University.
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