About
Chandra Shekhar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Fashion Communication, NIFT Jodhpur, an autonomous Institute under the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. He is an alumnus of NIFT Delhi and the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kashipur. Before joining the Acdemia, he worked with the apparel & textile industry, the development sector, and the Indian craft sector. His doctoral research explores identity construction, and thereby the experience of meaningfulness in the context of the Indian IT (information technology) work. His current research interests include critical fashion studies, matters of self and subjectivity, and leveraging collective human emotions for designing speculative futures.
Employment
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National Institute of Fashion Technology Associate Professor2008 - Present
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Publications (3)
- Perils and Paradoxes of Outsourcing: An Ethnographic Study Exploring Hopes and Dissonances Emanating from IT Employment in India Save
- EMERGING SUBJECTIVITY AND MEANING WITHIN THE LABOR PROCESS OF INDIAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Save
- Who Am I? An Ethnographic Study Exploring the Construction of Organizational and Individual Self among Indian IT Employees Save