Ravi Kumar

Biography

He Works as Associate Professor and is Chairperson of the Department of Sociology and Associate Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences. He co-edits book series on 'Social Movements, Dissent and Transformative Action' (Routledge: Delhi); 'Conversations on/for South Asia' (Aakar Books); and 'Sociology/Anthropology Across Borders' (Primus: Delhi). His research and teaching is heavily influenced by the belief that if social science is to transcend mere reproduction of what has already been done then one needs to instill perspective into whatever work one does. Having never attended school, he has very critically looked at education under capitalism as a process of factoryisation – an extremely mechanical exercise that disciplines students, aims to make them servile to the status quo and kills their creative enterprise to ensure all this. In higher education, he believe there is an urgent need to not only connect education to the experiences of teachers and students thereby making it dynamic but also to take it out of clutches of obsessive 'skilling' process.

Research Interest

Political Economy of Identity Politics Epistemologies of the South Social Theory Politics of Knowledge Production Social Movements