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PhD Sociology

 

Dr. Bhavneet Kaur

Assistant Professor

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B.A. (University of Delhi)

M.A. (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)

M.Phil. (University of Delhi)

PhD Sociology

 

Biography

Bhavneet Kaur is currently an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS). Prior to joining JGLS, she was a doctoral student and a guest lecturer at Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her research investigates practices of remembrance and the making of the social in Downtown Srinagar, Kashmir. More broadly her work is anchored around the social anthropology of violence, politics of emotion, memory studies, affect theory, and gendered violence. Her academic writing has been published in journals such as Ethnography (Sage) and Himalaya as well as forthcoming chapters in volumes published by Routledge and Orient BlackSwan.

Jindal Global Law School, 2020 onwards:

  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Sociology of Law
  • Sociology of Crimes
  • Foundation of Social Sciences
  • Academic Reading and Writing

 

Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, 2017-18

  • Sociology of Urban spaces
  • Gender and Society
  • Law and Society
  • Medical Anthropology
  • Social Stratification
  • Sociology of India I
  • Award for Research Publication, Jindal Global University, 2021
  • Award for Research Publication, Jindal Global University, 2020
  • Prize and shield for the Best student in the field of practice Women Centred Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, 2009-2011.
  • Prize for the Best Research in Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, 2009-2011.
  • Partial funding to travel for an academic conference to the State University of New York, Binghamton, November 2018
  • Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and National Eligibility Test for Lectureship (UGC-NET) in Women Studies, 2013. 
  • Independent Research Fellowship in Kashmir, titled, “Poetics of Resistance”, funded by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (July 2011-August 2012)

Political Palimpsest of Time: The Lanes of Downtown Srinagar.” In Event and Every day: Empiricisms and Epistemologies, edited by Yasmeen Arif. Orient Blackswan Private Limited. (To be published)

“Sensory Remembrance: Retelling the 1990s in Downtown Srinagar.” In Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies, edited by Mona Bhan, Haley Duschinski, Deepti Misri. Routledge.

“Relating Otherwise: Curated Narratives.” Biography Journal 43 (2): 306-322.

“Everyday Suffocations, Smells and Sounds of Jung: Ethnography of Tear Gas in Downtown Srinagar.” Himalaya 40(1). https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol40/iss1/7

“Politics of emotion: Everyday affective circulation of women’s resistance and grief in Kashmir.” Ethnography. March 2020. Doi:10.1177/1466138120907931

Mediated Identities: Layers of ‘being’ Muslim, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany
Email bkaur@jgu.edu.in
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