Dr. Sony Pellissery

Profile

Sony Pellissery is Professor and Director at the Centre for the Study of Social Inclusion. He is a public policy specialist with special interest in distributive justice. After his doctoral studies from Oxford University, he was serving as Associate Professor at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand, Gujarat. He has won the India Social Science Research award (2009) and Ram Reddy Memorial Award for Social Science (2015).

He is serving on the Board of International Association on Social Quality (since 2024), and Foundation for Inclusive and Sustainable Habitats (since 2022). Previously, he served as advisor to Breman Overseas Research and Development Association (2016-17), as Editorial Board member to Town Planning Review (2017-2021), and as International Editorial Advisor to Journal of Social Policy and Society (2017-2024). His works have been published in Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Social Policy, Gender and Development, Socius, International Journal of Social Welfare, Journal of Human Development, International Journal of Rural Management, International Social Security Review, Global Crime and Indian Anthropologist.

He had been visiting faculty at Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF), the University of Bielefeld (2011-13), Oslo Metropolitan University (2015-17), Zhengzhou University (2018), and University of Nagoya (2024).

Publications

Edited works include:

• Shame of It: Global Perspectives on Anti-Poverty Policies (Policy Press, 2013)
• Land Policies in India (Springer 2017)
• Transformative Law and Public Policy (Routledge 2019)
• Theorising Urban Development From the Global South (Palgrave MacMillan 2021), Editors: Mohan, Anjali Karol, Pellissery Sony, Gomez Aristizabal, Juliana (Eds.)
• Caste Matters in Public Policy (Routledge 2022)
• The State of Accountability in the Global South (Elgar 2023)
• The Politics of Welfare in the Global South (OUP 2024)

Other publications of Dr. Pellissery can be accessed on Google Scholar here.