Rakesh M Krishnan

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, University of Hyderabad – 2022
• Master of Philosophy in Sociology, University of Hyderabad – 2012
• Master of Arts in Sociology, University of Hyderabad – 2010
• Master of Arts in Economics, University of Hyderabad – 2007

Profile

Rakesh M Krishnan is a historical sociologist invested in social theory. Socio-political utopias, modes of theorizing, and phenomenology of history grab his attention. He is a Visiting Faculty at Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune, and earlier lectured at Flame University, Pune, and Mahatma Gandhi College, Thiruvananthapuram (Economics). In the past, he was a research assistant for Current Sociology Monographs and SSIS Book Series (Sage, London), Studies in Contemporary Society (Oxford University Press, New Delhi), and Cities and the Urban Imperative (Routledge, New Delhi) publications. Occasionally he reviews manuscripts for PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review journal.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Krishnan, R. M., (2022), A ‘Southern’ Perspective: Historical Sociology and Sociology in India, The American Sociologist, Vol 53(2): 240-264. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-021-09513-0
• Krishnan, R. M., (2021), Tax Raj: Koyas, Migration, and Adivasi Frontiers in Central Provinces, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol 58(4): 533-559. https://doi.org/10.1177/00194646211041161
• Krishnan, R., (2020), Long March of Migrant Laborers in India: Cities and Moral Outrage for the COVID-19 City Dispatches in City & Society, Vol 32(3): e1-e9. https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12351
• Krishnan, R. M., (2022), Deconstructing Tribal Geographies in Central India in the Special Section on Sociology from India in Global Dialogue, Vol 12(1): 42-43. https://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/deconstructing-tribal-geographies-in-central-india

Book Chapters

• Krishnan, R. M., (2023), Grievances on Rights and Entitlements of Local Communities: The Making and Unmaking of Maoist Movement in Maoist Insurgency in India: Unaddressed Grievances and Overlooked Issues, edited by Anshuman Behera [Forthcoming].
• Krishnan, R. M., (2022), [Co-Authored with Debapriya Ganguly], Class, Consumption, and Culture: High Streets and Neoliberal Imagination of the Indian Cities in Social Life of Streets in India: Histories, Contestations and Subjectivities, edited by Sadan Jha and Gauri Bharat for Bloomsbury, India pp 143-168.

Book Reviews

• Demeter Tamás (ed.). 2020. Intellectuals, Inequalities and Transitions: Prospects for a Critical Sociology, Brill for Comparative Sociology (2022) Vol 21(5): 647-649. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341550
• The India Forum. 2021. India and the Pandemic: The First Year, Orient Blackswan for Sociological Bulletin (2022) Vol 71(1): 153-155. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380229211063406
• Mark Lilla. 2017. The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics, Harper Collins for Contemporary Political Theory (2019) Vol 18(S3): 163-166. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-0220-9
• Alex Law and Eric Royal Lybeck (eds.). 2015. Sociological Amnesia: Cross-currents in Disciplinary History, Ashgate for International Sociology (2017) Vol 32(2): 195-197. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580916687463

E-Content

Developed 3 modules – Arif Dirlik, Anibal Quijano and Enrique Dussel as part of the Contemporary Social Theory paper for E-Patashala (Ministry of Education, Government of India) coordinated by Dr. Dev Pathak  of South Asian University, New Delhi.

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