Ravindra Karnena

Articles :

  • ‘A Curriculum for Agrarian Sociology’ in Seminar (682), Changing Countryside: A Symposium on the Shifting Contours of the Rural Landscape, June 2016, pp. 57-61

Book Reviews :

  • A Poisoned Journey’, review of, The Ambiguous Journey to the City: The Village and Other Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination by Ashis Nandy in The Book Review, November, 2001
  • ‘Palace of Sweat’, review of, Disciplining Bodies in the Gymnasium: Memory, Monument, Modernism by Patricia Vertinsky in Biblio: A Review of Books, September- October 2004. ‘The Eternal City?’, review of, Visualizing Space in Banaras: Images, Maps, and the Practice of Representation in Biblio: A Review of Books, March- April 2008
  • Review of ‘Language, Emotion and Politics: The Making of a Mother Tongue, by Lisa Mitchell, Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2009, in South Asian History and Culture, Volume 2, No 1, 2011
  • ‘Boy from Barisal’, review of ‘The World in Our Time: A Memoir’, by Tapan Raychaudarui, in Biblio: A Review of Books, September- October 2012.
  • ‘Judicalisation of Urban Governance’, Review of ‘In the Public’s Interest: evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi’, by Gautam Bhan, in Biblio: A Review of Books, September-November, 2016.
  • ‘Through a Fragmented Mirror’, Review of ‘Navigating the Labyrinth: Perspectives on India’s Higher Education’, By Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Devish Kapur, in The Book Review, July-August 2017.
  • ‘Towards a Republic of Streets’, Review of ‘Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity, and the Commons in Delhi’, Amita Baviskar, in Biblio: A Review of Books, October-December 2020.
  • Review Of ‘United We Are Unstoppable: 60 Inspiring Young People Saving Our World, In Their Own Words’ in The Book Review, November 2020.

Seminars, Conferences and Workshops :

  • Attended Cultural Studies workshop conducted by Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta in February 2003 and presented paper titled: ‘Liberal Discourse on Secularism, Minority Rights and Multiculturalism in India and its Discontents’
  • 4th Network of Rural and Agrarian Studies (NRAS) National Conference at the G. B. Panth Social Science Institute, University of Allahabad, 18-20 December 2015. A Curriculum for Agrarian Sociology.
  • Resource Person for the session on Academic Readings and Writing for NALSAR University of Law, Research Methodology Workshop for Doctoral Students. (March 11-21, 2021)
  • Resource Person for the session on Academic Readings and Writing for NALSAR University of Law, Research Methodology Workshop for Doctoral Students. (March 4-13, 2022)