University Faculty Details Page on DU Web-site (PLEASE FILL THIS IN AND SUBMIT A HARD COPY AND SOFT COPY ON CD ALONGWITH YOUR PERIODIC INCREMENT CERTIFICATE(PIC)) Title Dr. First Name Designation Professor Department Sociology Address (Campus) Rajni Last Name Palriwala Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007 (Residence) D 2/8 Cavalry Lane, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007 Phone No (Campus) 27667858 (Residence)optional Mobile Fax 27667858 Email rpalriwala@sociology.du.ac.in Web-Page Education Subject Institution Year Details Ph.D. University of Delhi 1990 M.Phil. in Sociology University of Delhi 1979 Dipl. in Social University of Sussex 1978 Anthropology M.A. Sociology Jawaharlal Nehru University 1977 B.Sc (Hons.) Physics Miranda House, University of Delhi 1975 Career Profile Organisation / Institution Designation Duration Role Department of Sociology, University of Delhi -do- Reader 7 years Teaching, Research. -do- Lecturer/Senior 9 years Teaching, Research. Lecturer -do- Research Associate 4 years Research, Teaching. Miranda House/University of Lecturer 5 months Teaching, Research. Delhi Institute of Cultural Studies/ Visiting/Affiliated 1.5 years Research, Teaching CNWS, University of Leiden Fellow International Institute of Asian Affiliated Fellow 1.5 years Studies, The Netherlands Research Photograph Professor 9 years Teaching, Research. Head (2007-10); Dean, Social Sciences (2010) Research Interests / Specialization Gender; Kinship; Care; State and Citizenship; Social Movements; Agrarian Structures; Sociology of Emotion; Fieldwork Methodology; Comparative Sociology. Teaching Experience (Subjects/Courses Taught)
(MA): Kinship; Gender and Society; Sociology of India; Sociology of Development; Area Studies: China; Economic Sociology; Sociological Theories. (M.Phil.): Women in Indian Society; Sociology of India: Problems of Research; Studying the State. Publications (last five years) Books / Monographs Year of Title Publisher Co-Author Publication 2008. Planning Families, Planning Gender: The Adverse Child Sex Ratio in Selected Districts of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab. Action Aid/IDRC Mary E. John, Ravinder Kaur, Saraswati Raju, Alpana Sagar 2008 Marriage, Migration, and Gender. New Delhi: Sage Co-ed: Patricia Uberoi) In Indexed/ Peer Reviewed Journals Year of Publication Title Journal Co-Author 2011 Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in India through the Lens of Childcare 2010 The Absence of State Law: Domestic Workers in India Development and Change 42(4): 1049-1078 Canadian Jl. of Women and the Law 23(1):97-119. 2010 Care Arrangements and bargains: Anganwadi and paid domestic workers in India. International Labour Review 149(4):511-527 2009 Dispensing with Daughters: Technology, Society, Economy in North India Economic and Political Weekly, 11 April, 44 (15): 16-19. Mary E. John, Ravinder Kaur, Saraswati Raju Articles (in the last five years) 1. 2013 "Loving and Leaving: Single Parents in the Netherlands", In Dirk Wiemann and Lars Eckstein (eds.) The Politics of Passion: Reframing Affect and Emotion in Global Modernity. Franckfurt: Peter Lang Academic Research. 2. 2012 (with ) "Between the State, Market and Family: Structures, Policies and Practices of Care in India", In S. Razavi and S. Staab (eds.) Worlds Apart: Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care. London: Routledge. 3. 2012. (with ) "Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in India through the Lens of
Childcare." In Shahra Razavi (ed.) Seen, Heard and Counted: Rethinking Care in a Development Context. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. (Reprint of article in Development and Change) 4. 2010 (with N.Neetha) Unpaid Care Work: Analysis of the Indian Time Use Data, In D. Budlender (ed.) Time Use Studies and Unpaid Care Work. New York and Abingdon: Routledge. 5. 2010. Gendering Sociological Practice: A Case Study of Teaching in the University, In B.S. Baviskar And Tulsi Patel (eds.) Understanding Indian Society- Past and Present: Essays in Honour of A.M. Shah. New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 6. 2010 The Anti-Dowry Movement in Delhi, In T. K. Oommen (ed.) Social Movements II: Concerns of Equity and Security. (Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology) New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 7. 2009. The Spider s Web: Seeing dowry, fighting dowry, In T. Bradley, E. Tomalin and M. Subramaniam (eds.) Dowry: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice. New Delhi: Women Unlimited. 8. 2008 (With P. Uberoi) Exploring the links: Gender issues in marriage and migration, In Marriage, Migration, and Gender. New Delhi: Sage. Conference Presentations/Organised (in the last three years) "Gender, care practices, and state policy: The hierarchies of work, family, and community in India". Keynote Address at the 5th International "Community, Work and Family" conference, held at Sydney University, Sydney. July 2013. "Rationality, instrumentality, and the affective: Crossings and blurrings in relations of care and intimacy" at the international conference on "Life and Humanity in Late Modern Transformation: Beyond East and West", Seoul National University, Seoul. May 2013 "Gender and the study of emotion" at a panel on "Feminist Explorations of Knowledge: Present and Future of Engendered Anthropology" Sociology Seminar Series, South Asian University. April 2013. "Gender, marginalization, and communalism" at a national symposium on "Marginalisation, Communalism and Religion", Department of Sociology, NEHU, Shillong. March 2013. "Family Ideologies, Paid Work, and Care in Urban India" at an international workshop on "Urbanization and Migration in Transnational India: Work and Family Life from a Welfare Perspective", held at ISEC, Bangalore, organized by ISEC, Lund University, SASNET, and Nordic Centre in India. March 2013. "Gender, Marriage and Family Relations under globalization", at a seminar entitled, "Impact of Globalisation on Indian Society", Organised by Jansanskriti, at Muktadhara Auditorium, February 2013 "Modernity, globalisation and cosmopolitanism" at an international conference entitled, " Sociology Matters: Challenges and Possibilities of Social Science Knowledge in Contemporary India ", CSSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University. January 2013. "Children's Right to Family", Keynote Speaker at the Annual Event of Butterflies, held at IIC, Delhi. December 2012. Gender, migration, and care: Case studies from North India at a panel on Care, welfare and migration at the 85 th annual meeting of the Japan Sociological Society conference in Hokkaido, Japan. November 2012. Has the gender contract in marriage changed? Thoughts from India on the conjugal contract, in a panel on "Family, Kinship and the domestic: Sites of gendered power, at a conference entitled, Gender, Anthropology, and the Political Economy of Development: A celebration of the work of Anne Whitehead. September 2012. Counting Women s Unaccounted Contribution through Time Use Studies at an expert group meeting on the theme orgnaised by Manusher Jonno Foundation, Dhaka. August 2012. Marriage in South Asia: Iterations and transformations (with Ravinder Kaur) at the Panel on Marriage in South Asia: Practices and Transformations, at the 22 nd EASAS, held at Lisbon, July 2012. 'Change as cosmopolitanism? Culture, agency and the social'. Lecture at the summer school on Minor Cosmopolitanisms at the University of Potsdam. Also co-conducted a workshop on Minor Mobilities as part of the summer school. July 2012.
'India Family Survey Questionnaire' Presentation at the workshop on the Asian Family Survey: Methods and Methodolgies, held at the Institute of Family and Gender Studies, Hanoi on 20-21 February, 2012. Lecture on Ethnography and Feminist Research at a workshop on Feminist Research Methodology, a post-conference event of the XXXVII All India Sociological Conference, held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, organised by RC-10 (ISS) and the Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumbudur. December, 2011 Lecture on Gender and/in Ethnography and resource person at the workshop for young sociologists, entitled Doing Research, doing ethnography, a pre-conference programme of the XXXVII All India Sociological Conference held at the IIT, Delhi. December 2011. "Has the gender contract in marriage changed?", at a workshop on Placing Children at the Centre: Future Social Policies for India, organised by the Institute for Human Development and UNICEF India at the IIC Annexe, New Delhi. September 2011. Missing girls? Trends and concerns in India at the international seminar on Missing girls in South Asia: Trends and Challenges, organized by BRAC University, held in Rajendrapur, Bangladesh. July 2011. Government Advocacy and Communication on the Girl Child and Sex Selection at a consultation on Government Advocacy, Communication, and Media Messaging organised by the Working Group on Gender and declining sex ratio in India of the National Advisory Committee, held at SAIL, Delhi. July 2011. Falling Child Sex Ratios and Related Concerns, Public lecture, organized by the Indian School of Women s Studies and Development at Muktadhara Hall, New Delhi. April 2011. Liberalisation, state responsibility and the struggle for the rights of domestic workers Keynote address at a convention of Domestic Workers organised by AIDWA, Bhopal. April, 2011. Stratified familialism: The organization and practices of childcare in India at the conference on Shifting Boundaries of Care Provision in Asia: Policy and Practice Changes held at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore on 14-15 March, 2011. Childcare and elderly care in India and The Netherlands: Internal and cross-cultural comparisons, at a workshop on Long term care: Family support, professional care-work and social policies held at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, under the European Studies Programme, University of Delhi, Department of Sociology. June 2010. Public Service / University Service / Consulting Activity Member of governing bodies of various colleges of the University of Delhi and other institutions, of technical committees of various institutes. Member, Managing Committee, Indian School of Women's Development and Studies Member, Editorial Board, Women s Equality Life Member, Centre for Women s Development Studies, New Delhi Association With Professional Bodies Indian Sociological Society, Indian Association of Women s Studies Editorial Board, Sociological Bulletin (2007-2009, 2012-) Editorial Board, Sociological Inquiry (since 2010) Research Projects (Major Grants / Collaborations) India Family Survey, covering Rohtak, Delhi, Chennai, as part of the Asian Family Survey. In collaboration with Kyoto University, Japan, and Society for Economic and Social Studies, New Delhi. Member, Advisory Core Group for the Study entitled, Need Assessment for Creches and Childcare Services,
being conducted by FORCES. UNRISD funded The Social and Political Economy of Care in India In collaboration with Society for Economic and Social Studies, New Delhi. Action-Aid/IDRC study: Adverse Sex Ratio in Select Districts of Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab. IDPAD funded research project on "The impact of a changing social welfare system on relations within marriage, family, and social networks in the Netherlands and the public debate on this process". Other Details (Signature of Faculty Member) (Signature & Stamp of Head of the Department)