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Rita
Brara
Mukhopadhyay
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Sociology
Dept. of Sociology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007
A 7/6, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi- 110007.
27667858
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Education
Subject
Institution
Year
BSc (HSc)
Lady Irwin College
1970
MA (Sociology)
Delhi University
1975
M.Phil (Sociology)
Delhi University
1977
Career Profile
Organisation / Institution
Designation
Duration
Delhi University
Professor
Since 2008
Details
Role
Research Interests / Specialization
Sociology of Kinship, Environmental Sociology, Popular Culture, Urban Sociology
Teaching Experience ( Subjects/Courses Taught)
MA: Sociology of Kinship, Urban Sociology, Religion and Society, Sociology of India-I
M.PHIL : Theories and Methods; Everyday Sociology:; Environmental Sociology
Honors & Awards
I was awarded the IBIES Scholarship to teach visual culture under the EU-Aarhus Erasmus Mundus Programme in the period April-May
2014.
I was awarded a Rachel Carson Fellowship by the Rachel Carson Center for the Study of Environment and Society in Munich Germany.
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Publications (LAST FIVE YEARS)
Books / Monographs
Year of
Publication
2006
Chapters in
Books
Title
Publisher
Shifting Landscapes: The Making and Re-making of
Village Commons in India
Oxford University
Press, New Delhi
Co-Author
2015. Punjabi Inscriptions of Kinship and Gender. In
R. Chatterji ed. “Wording the World: Veena Das and
Scenes of Inheritance” New York: Fordham.
2013
2013. Not so Boring. Assembling and
Reassembling Groundwater Tales and
Technologies from Malerkotla, Punjab. In
John R. Wagner Ed. The Social Life of
Water. UK: Berghahn Books (Chapter 6).
2011
Why a Cousin Becomes a Spouse, Elementary says
Levi-Strauss
Yoda Press
2010
Perspectives on Commons‟ Encroachment
Oxford University
Press
2007
The Public Sphere and Water Provisioning:
Discontinuities in the Present
Permanent Black,
New Delhi
In Dipankar Gupta
ed. „My Favorite
Levi-Strauss‟
IN V. and RK
Das ed.
„Sociology and
Social
Anthropology of
Economic Life
Pp. 162-186.
IN
„Waterscapes:
The Cultural
Politics of a
Natural
Resource‟ ed.
Amita Baviskar
Pp. 117-138.
.
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In Indexed/
Peer Reviewed Journals
Year of
Publication
2014
Title
Shaping Land Rights: Tenurial Class, Lineage and
Gender in Malerkotla, India
Journal
2012
2012. CA Forum on Public Anthropology.
Comment on John R. Wagner‟s “Water as a
Commons Imaginary‟
2011
Flowers and Gender in Contemporary Paris:
Reflections on a Visual Study..
Asian Journal of
Women’s
Studies, Vol. 20.
No.4 (2)
Current
Anthropology
Vol. 53 (5)
October issue
Working Paper
Series 2011/XIII.
European
Studies
Programme,
University of
Delhi
2011
2011. Comments on Prof. Strathern‟s
„What‟s in an Argument: Reflections on
Knowledge Exchanges‟
Working Paper
Series, European
Studies
Programme,
2011/XI.(Dept.
of Sociology,
University of
Delhi)
2010
The Item Number: Cinesexuality in Bollywood and
Social Life
Economic and
Political Weekly,
June 5, Pp 67-74
2009
Agrarian Unrest in a Princely State:
Anthropological
Analysis of Malerkotla in the Nineteeth Century
An
Indian
Anthropologist Vol.
39 Nos. 1 and 2
Pp. 1-16
2009
Why a cousin becomes a spouse: Elementary, says LeviStrauss
Asian Journal for
Women‟s Studies,
Vol. 15 No. 2 Pp 6286.
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Co-Author
Articles
2010
Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009) Obituary
Contributions to Indian Sociology
Vol. 44 No. 3 Pp. 389-393
Conference Presentations: Details of recent conferences given below
Total Publication Profile
Books : 1
Manuscript being readied for publication: One (Inscriptions of Punjabi Kinship and Gender:
A Study of Malerkotla )
(1890-2010)
In Indexed/ Peer Reviewed Journals
8+ 5 (chapters in books) = 13
Articles
One
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Conference Presentations
2015.Presented a paper titled “Adjudicating Resource Use: The National Green Tribunal, India” at the
Rachel Carson Center fo
Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany on June 11, 2015.
2015. Presented a paper on “Digging Deep: Agriculture Issues before the National Green Tribunal” at
Heidelberg Un
Germany on 19 June 2015.
2015. Presented on “Vulnerability and the Commons” at the Roundtable on “Interpreting Vulnerabilities”
at the Rachel Carson
Carson Center, Munich Germany, on July 3, 2015.
2015. Presented a paper titled “The National Green Tribunal of India: Emerging Socio-Legal
Perspectives” at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru on April 2, 2015.
2015. Presented a paper on “Framing Vulnerabilities and the Resilience of Public Interest” at the
Workshop on “Environment and Climate: Framing Vulnerabilites” at the Department of Sociology on Jan 2223,2015.
2015. Presented a discussion note on “Climate, Drought and Livestock” at the University of OxfordAnthra Workshop
On Climate-Drought-Livestock held at the India International Center, delhi on Jan 14, 2015.
2014. Was discussant at a Conference on “Nature Today” held at the Institute of Economic Growth on
August 22, 2014.
2014. Presented a paper on Visualizing Climate Change: An Analysis of Cartoons at the Dept. of Culture
and Society. Aarhus
University, Denmark on 14 May, 2014.
2014. Was a discussant at a seminar on “Transnational Modernities‟ held at the Konig Center Aarhus University
.
2014 Presented a paper on “Building and Re-Building Relatedness: Perspectives from Malerkotla‟ at
the Conference on „Punjab Today‟ held at the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi on 6 and 7
February, 2014.
2014 Read a paper on “Visualizing Climate Change: An Analysis of Cartoons” at a Workshop on
„Imaginings of Climate Change” held at the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi on 6 March
2014.
2013 Was chair and discussant for a paper on “Politicizing Nature: Role of Scientists in Environmental
Movements” held at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies, New delhi on 30 October
2014.
2013Was chair and discussant for the afternoon session of a Conference on “Inequality and Social
Mobility in Contemporary India” held at the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi on 7
November, 2013.
2012. Was discussant-cum chair for Technical Session I at International Conference on “Forests and
Common Lands: Rights, Conflicts, FRA and PESA” organized by Rights, Resources Initiative and Society
for Promotion of Wastelands Development in New Delhi on 18 December, 2012.
2012. Presented a paper on „Gender and the Commons‟ at the International Conference on „Governance of
Commons and Livelihood Security‟ at Xavier Institute of Social Science, Ranchi, India on 17-18 August.
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2012. Gave a talk on „Inscriptions of Punjabi Kinship and Marriage: Sayings and Songs‟ on 30 August at Jesus
and Mary College, New Delhi
2013. Was a discussant at the Research Scholars‟ Workshop at the department of Sociology held on 7 Ma5rch
2013.
2013. Presented a paper on „Commons and Commoners: Litigating the Public Interest in India‟ at the
Conference of the International Association of the Commons held at Kitafuji, Japan on 6 June.
Read a paper on „Social Scales and Climate Change: An Analysis of Cartoons‟ at a Conference titled Initiative
on Climate Change Adaptation Research and Understanding (ICARUS) held at Columbia University, USA.
Presented a paper on „Inscribing Sacredness and Locality: Meat-Shop Signs in the Inter-Faith Milieu of Delhi‟ at
a Seminar on „Delhi‟ held at Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi on March 18, 2012.
Read a paper on ' The Visual Culture of Meat-Shop Signs in the Inter-Faith Milieu of Delhi' at Aarhus
University, Denmark at a Conference on „Visual Cultures in Contemporary India‟ on 8 December, 2011.
Presented a paper titled „Flowers and Gender: Reflections on a Visual Study‟ at a Conference on „Thinking Europe/
Thinking India‟
held at the University of Delhi on November 16-18, 2011.
Was a discussant for Professor Marilyn Strathern‟s public lecture on „What‟s in an Argument: Reflections on Knowledge
Exchanges‟
held at the Delhi School of Economics on 30 September, 2011.
Made a presentation on „Viewing Flowers: Notes on a Visual Study in Contemporary Paris‟ at a „Workshop on Sharing
Fieldwork
Experiences‟ ( European Studies Programme) held at the Department of Sociology on Sept. 8-9, 2011.
Paper on “The Language of Flowers in Contemporary Paris” at the L‟ecole des hautes etudes
en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, on June 17, 2011.
A discussant at student presentations under the European Studies Programme-DU Project
on 17 March and May 9, 2011 at the India International Centre, Delhi, 2011.
Presented a talk on " Commons and Commoners: Clues from a Half-Century of
Agropastoralist Experience" at a Workshop on "Common Property Resource Institutions,
Pastoral Production Systems and 'Green Revolution' ” at a Foundation for Ecological
Security- Centre for Social Ecology Workshop held at CAZRI, Jodhpur on
18-19 November,2010.
Chair-discussant for a panel on Common Pastures in Asia at the 13th Biennial Conference
of the International Association for Study On Commons (IASC) held at Hyderabad on January
11, 2011.
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Was a panel discussant for the FES session on “ A Commons Story: In the Rain Shadow of
Green Revolution” at the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for
Study On Commons (IASC) held at Hyderabad on January11, 2011.
Presented a proposal on “The Language of Flowers in Contemporary Paris” at
Inaugural Workshop of European Studies Programme, Department of Sociology,
University of Delhi, Delhi on January 23, 2010.
Resource person for FAO- NDDB Workshop on Common Property Resources
and Livestock at TERI Campus, Gurgaon on 16-17 July, 2008
Resource Person for Deliberations on Good Practices for the Commons at SAPP-LPP, New Delhi
10-12 November, 2008.
Presented a paper titled „Inscriptions of Locality: Meat-shop Signs and Slaughter Practices
in Delhi‟ at Conference on Reinhabiting the Local on May 15-16, 2007, held at
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore: USA.
Public Service / University Service / Consulting Activity
I interact and work with activist-researchers at the Foundation for Ecological Security, Gujarat, the Centre for Social Ecology
and the Institute for Development Studies, Jaipur in the domain of environmental studies and rural development
Professional Societies Memberships
American Anthropological Association
Center for Social Ecology (CeNSE)
IASC (International Association for the Study of the Commons)
Projects (Major Grants / Collaborations)
Have readied a manuscript titled „Inscriptions of Punjabi Kinship and Gender : A Study of Malerkotla (1890-2010)‟.
Am a co-researcher in the Delhi University‟s Project on European Studies since January, 2010
Other Details
Associated as resource person for the Biennial Conference of the International Association for the
Commons held in Hyderabad from January 11-14 , 2011.
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