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Dr. Sudheesh R C

Assistant Professor, Social Science

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Co-Director: Centre for the Study of Marginalised Communities (Tala Samudaya)

Phone Extension: 508 | Direct Number: 080-23010508

Teaching

Academic Programmes

5-Year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.)

Courses

Jul 2024

Mar 2024

Nov 2023

July 2023

Education

  • 5-Year integrated MA in Development Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • MSc. in Social Policy and Development, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  • DPhil in International Development, University of Oxford

Profile

Sudheesh’s work spans the state, land, social policy, agrarian change and theories of development. Prior to joining NLSIU, he was an Assistant Professor at the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, where he taught courses on the state, land and qualitative research methods. He has earlier worked as a research assistant with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in New Delhi, where he explored decentralisation models and supported knowledge exchange among state officials and practitioners from 10 countries in South and Southeast Asia. He has also been a teaching assistant for courses on theories and histories of development of the MPhil Development Studies programme at Oxford, where he was a Clarendon scholar.

Sudheesh’s research explores the tension between demands for cultivable land and responses of the welfare state. Through an ethnographic study of land distribution measures taken up in response to Adivasi land struggles in Kerala, he has examined the specific citizen-state relationship that develops in such contexts. His research also tracks how capitalism in the Indian countryside is expanding through the replacement of one marginalised community of labourers with another.

Research Interests

The state
Land
Social policy
Agrarian change
Theories of development

Publications

Journal articles

Other publications