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Dr. Urmi Bhattacharyya

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Assistant Professor Department of Sociology urmi.b@svc.ac.in


Educational Qualifications

  • Ph.D ( Sociology, JNU, New Delhi)
  • M.A., M.Phil( Sociology, JNU, New Delhi)

Areas of Specialization

  • Social and cultural anthropology, Cultural Sociology and Visuality, Social theory and ethics

Administrative roles/ responsibilities

    
•	Co-convener, Special Lecture Series 2020-21, Dept. of Sociology, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi.

•	Co-convener, Special Lecture Series 2019-20, Dept. of Sociology, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi.

•	Co-convener, Special Lecture Series 2018-19, Dept. of Sociology, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi.

•	Coordinator (2017-2018), Wall Magazine – Department of Sociology, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi

•	Convener (2016-2018), Sociology Association – Dept. of Sociology, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi.

•	Convener (2016-2017), We-Witness - Annual Magazine, Dept. of Sociology, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi.

•	Member, Syllabus Revision Committee 2019, B.A. (Hons) Indian Society: Images and Realities (CBCS-LOCF), University of Delhi.

Courses Taught

  • Visual Cultures, Sociology of Kinship, Urban Sociology, Indian Society – Images and Realities, Reading, Writing and Reasoning in Sociology, Introduction to Sociology, Social Stratification
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-	2020. “Interpreting Cultural Politics through the Act of Performative Communication” (Review of Culture and Politics in South Asia: Performative Communication, Dev Nath Pathak and Sasanka Perera (eds.), London: Routledge) New Books Asia Newsletter (International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden).

-	2019. “Reconceptualizing Representation: Interconnections of Experience and Space in the Production of Knowledge”, Journal of Human Values, 25(2): 113-123. 

-	2019. “Spaces of Culture and Agents of Identity Construction: A Study of the Banjara community in Rajasthan”, in Visvanathan, S. (ed.). Structure, Innovation and Adaptation: Concepts and Empirical Puzzles in a Post Modern Milieu, New Delhi: Winshield Press.

-	2019. “Representation to ‘Re-Presentation’: Santhal Scroll Painting and Performance, and the World of Religion and Magic”, in Visvanathan, S. (ed.). Art, Politics, Symbols and Religion, New Delhi: Winshield Press.

-	2019. “Sociology of Religion Today: Practices of Thought and Learning”, Journal of Human Values, 25 (3): 190-201.  (Co-authored).

-	2018. “Interpreting Modernity and the Cultural Possibility of Social Transformation”, Society and Culture in South Asia, 4(1): 1-21.

-	2016. “From Primitive to Culturally Distinct: Patachitra Art and Self-Exoticization in West Bengal”, in Kapferer, B. and Theodossopoulous, D. (eds). Against Exoticism: Towards the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology, Oxford: Berghahn Publications.
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