Jayaseelan Raj
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Centre for Development Studies
India
Biography
PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway. (May 2014). Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics (Jan 2014-Dec 2016).
Research Interest
Anthropology of Development, Poverty and Inequality, Plantation Labour, Industrial Work and Social Life, Ethnographic Methods
Publications
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Raj, Jayaseelan. “The Hidden Injuries of Caste: South Indian Tea Workers and Economic Crisis.†(Open Democracy. June 2015)
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Raj, Jayaseelan. “Alienated Enclaves: Economic Crisis and Neo-Bondage in a South Indian plantation belt.†(Forum for Development Studies, 2013; Volume 40 (3). p. 465-490)
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Shah, A., Lerche, J., Raj, J., Axelby, R., Benbaabali, D., Donegan, B., & Thakur, V. Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in India. London: Pluto Press/ New Delhi: Oxford University Press (2017).