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Suresh Babu G.S

Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Jammu

ORCID iD 0000-0003-4640-0512
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Suresh Babu teaches at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Earlier he worked in the Dept of Sociology, Jammu University for a decade before joining JNU. His studies are broadly situated in the interdisciplinary research in the sociology of knowledge, political ecology and educational sociology. He was one of the key members of research on the problems of Pahari Speaking People of Jammu and Kashmir for the Govt. of Jammu and Kashmir. He was a consultant to a research project on Access, Equity and Quality of Higher Education: A Study on the Impact of Self-financing Colleges in Kerala, for the Kerala State Higher Education Council. He has recently finished two field-based research on the livelihood issue led by climate change and educational transformation in the Ladakh Himalaya. He is a member of the collaborative interdisciplinary research on Mapping Global South at Global South Studies Centre, University of Cologne and visiting scholar at the Institute of Ethnology (2015 and 2017) University of Cologne, Germany. His current research includes a cultural protest in the institutions of higher learning in India funded by the Indian Council for Social Science Research. Apart from contributing research papers in journals and chapters in books, he has edited two books: Education and Public Sphere: Exploring the Structures of Mediation in the Post-colonial India, (Routledge UK) and Contextualising Educational Studies in India: Research, Policy and Practice with Pradeep K Choudhury (Routledge India).

Employment

  • Jawaharlal Nehru University Asst. Professor
    2013 - Present
  • University of Jammu Asst. Professor
    2005 - 2013

Education

  • Jawaharlal Nehru University MPhil/PhD
    2003 - 2009

Projects & Funding

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Publications (14)