Dr. Anjali Bhatia

Bhatia, Anjali. Treating Children, Feeding Junk Food: An Inquiry into a Middle Class Project’ in Kiranmayi Bhushi Ed. Farm to Fingers: Culture and Politics of Food in Contemporary India. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.2018.

Papers in Journals (National/International)

  • Bhatia, A. (2000). For Democratic Education. Mainstream, XXXVIII (20), 11-12.
  • Bhatia, A. and R. Kashyap, (2018). ‘Taxi Drivers and Taxidars: A Case Study of Uber and Ola in Delhi.’ Journal of Developing Societies, 34 (2): 1-26

Articles (web portals)

  • The Journey since 1947-IV: Eating Out Comes of Age in India, In : The India Forum: A Journal-Magazine on Contemporary Issues: 18th October 2022
  • Since All Roads Lead to Home, logingender.wiscomp.org, 14 September, 2020
  • If a University Could Speak, www.thenewleam.com, 27 July, 2020

Book Reviews in Journals

  • S. Mennell, A. Murcott & A.H. Otterloo, ‘The Sociology of Food: Eating, Diet & Culture’ in Contributions to Indian Sociology, 28, 373-374. (Print ISSN: 0069-9667 Online ISSN: 0973-0648), 1994
  • L. Kurtz,  ‘Gods in the Global Village: The World Religions in Sociological Perspective’ in Contributions to Indian Sociology, 32, 373-374. (Print ISSN: 0069-9667 Online ISSN: 0973-0648), 1994
  • M. Nava, ‘Changing Cultures: Feminism, Youth and Consumerism’ in Contributions to Indian Sociology, 27, 330. (Print ISSN: 0069-9667 Online ISSN: 0973-0648), 1993

Papers Presented in National/International Conferences

  • ‘Social Constructions of ‘Youth’ in Fast Food Eating Out Culture in India.’ Paper presented at a conference on Cookbooks and Culinary Practices: Food, Body and Identity in India from Medieval to Contemporary Times, co-hosted by Janki Devi Memorial College and Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 20-21 December., 2016.
  • ‘Eating Out and the Lifecourse: Childhood in Globalizing India.’ Paper presented at the  2nd ISA Forum of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1-4 August, 2012.
  • ‘Constitution of Youth in Fast Food Culture: An Inquiry into Global-Local Dynamics in Contemporary India.’Paper presented at the 53rd Annual ISA Convention, San Diego California, USA, 1-4 April, 2012.
  • ‘Women and Food in Femina: TheNew Woman in Liberalized India.’ Paper presented at the 53rd Annual ISA Convention, San Diego, California, USA, 1-4 April, 2012.
  • ‘Middle Class Motherhood in Contemporary India.’ Paper presented at the ISA Annual Convention, New York, 15-18 February, 2009.
  • ‘Constituting the New Middle Class: Eating Out and the Lifecourse.’ Paper presented at the International Conference on Consumerism and the Emerging Middle Class: Comparative Perspectives from India and China,’ 7-9 November, 2005.

Invited Lectures

  • In a Panel Discussion, Affordability of Healthy Diets in South Asia organized by International Food Policy Research Institute. (16TH December 2022, Session Moderator)
  • Reading Gandhi’s Questions and Experiments with Food Today, Department of Sociology, St. Andrew’s College of Arts, Sciences and Commerce, Mumbai, 17.12.2021.
  • Encounter with a Pandemic: A Sociological Perspective, Samyak Drishti Foundation, 25.6.2020 (online).
  • Towards Understanding Food, Sociology Seminar Series 2018, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Science, South Asian University, 14 February, 2018
  • Gender Sensitivity, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi, 12 March 2018
  • Constitution of Childhood and Youth in Fast Food Eating Out Culture: Global Local Dynamics in India, Sagan National Colloquium, Ohio-Wesleyan University, Ohio, 1.10.2012.
  • Feeding Brilliance: Thinking about a Middle Class Motherhood in Contemporary India, Graduate School of Letters, University of Kyoto (16.6.2009) and Tokyo Institute of Foreign Studies ( 6 July, 2009).
  • Omnibus lecture series on ‘Childhood, Courtship, Conjugality and Family in Globalizing India, Graduate School of Letters, University of Kyoto, 5 June-11 July 2009.
  • Doing Sociology of Food, Department of Sociology, University of Pune, 16 September 2008.

Others

  • Convenor for the UGCF Steering Committee for redesigning the undergraduate course structure for Sociology at the University of Delhi, 2022.
  • Meet the Author Programme: Book Discussion on ‘Farm to Fingers: The Culture and Politics of Food in Contemporary India.’ Hosted by the Department of Sociology, South Asian University, 27 August, 2018.
  • Resource Person: Workshop on Gender and Society: Through A New Lens, Manav Rachna International University, 6 March, 2018.
  • Convenor for the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) Committee for restructuring the undergraduate syllabus in Sociology at the University of Delhi, 2015.
  • Part of the research team that conducted a survey in LSR and put together a report titled Gender Perceptions among College Students: A Report of a Survey in LSR that was presented at the Gender Congress organised by LSR, 2014.
  • Speaker, Violence Against Women: Causes, Consequences and Policy Recommendations, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, 22 January, 2013.
  • Guest Scholar, Asian ERASMUS pilot programme, Global Centre of Excellence in the Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public Spheres in the 21st Century Asia, Graduate School of Letters, University of Kyoto, 5 June-11 July 2009.
  • Advisor, Next Generation Workshop, Global Centre of Excellence in the Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public Spheres in the 21st Century Asia, Graduate School of Letters, University of Kyoto, 7 January-15 January 2009.
  • Coordinator of the annual field trip conducted by the Department of Sociology for third year students and Project Report Supervisor
    Kannur, Kerala (13-30 September, 2005), 25 students;
    Pune, Maharashtra (12-29 September, 2008), 24 students.