Dr. Sriti Ganguly
October 20, 2023 2024-09-17 13:04Dr. Sriti Ganguly
Dr. Sriti Ganguly
Assistant Professor
B.A. (University of Delhi);
M.A. (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi);
M.Phil.; Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
Sriti Ganguly is an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Arts and Humanities at JGU. Her research interests include urban sociology, sociology of education, mothering practices and youth cultures. Her doctoral research from Jawaharlal Nehru University focused on studying the heterogeneity among the urban poor of Delhi and explored whether/how education becomes a marker of differentiation and distinction.
She is currently leading two studies on gender, mobility and urban space in collaboration with Dr. Smriti Singh (Assistant Professor, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India).
She is also co-leading a research constellation on digital cultures and media studies at the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University. She has published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Economic and Political Weekly, Contemporary Education Dialogue and contributed chapters to edited volumes published by Routledge.
She has also contributed to the development of course material for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Education courses offered by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi.
Journal articles
- ‘Not like me’: educational aspirations and mothering in an urban poor neighbourhood in India. In British Journal of Sociology of Education.
- Special Article titled “Caste based segregation in urban spaces: patterns of settlement and experiences of socio-spatial stigma among Balmikis in Delhi” in Economic and Political Weekly, 53(50).
- “Social Construction of a Segregated Urban Space and its Effects on Education: A case study of the Balmikis of Delhi” in Contemporary Education Dialogue, 15(1).
- Co-authored with S. Srinivasa Rao and Roma Ranu Dash “Widening Marginality in Access to Primary Education in Tribal Areas: Impact of School Closures and the Policy of Rationalisation” in International Journal of Indigenous & Marginalised Affairs.
- Co-authored with Arvind Kumar “The Nandy Conundrum” Economic and Political Weekly, 49(11).
- Forthcoming (co-authored with Riddhi Bhandari). 2024. “Cutting through the Fog: Imagining Change through Women’s Complaints in Kohrra.” Anthropological Quarterly, Winter 2024 issue. Book Chapters
- Forthcoming Chapter ‘In search of ‘good’ education: Exploring parental school choices, perceptions and evaluations in a low-income neighbourhood of Delhi’ in Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, Book Series, Emerald Insight.
- Chapter titled “Samaj and Sangat: Parental Construction of Children’s Poor Educational Attainments in a Caste-based Segregated Settlement” in Social Context of Learning, Routledge.
- Chapter titled ‘In the pursuit of middle-classness: Exploring the aspirations and strategies of the urban poor in neoliberal Delhi’ in Beyond Consumption: India’s new middle class in the neo liberal times, edited by Manisha K. Jha and Pushpendra. Routledge.
Journal articles under review 2024
- The promise of city and education: exploring aspirations on the margins of Delhi. Under review with Contemporary South Asia. So Long as Equality is Elusive: Lessons for Education of Dalits from Ambedkar’s Life and Work (co-authored with Smriti Singh) under review with Journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory.
Popular articles
- (With Ruchika Arora) Gleaming metropolis: Who is swept aside in Delhi’s quest to become a world-class city? [Online]. The Sociological Review Magazine. https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/december-2023/mess/gleaming-metropolis/
- (with Riddhi Bhandari). Book Review– “Lies Our Mothers Told Us: The Indian Woman’s Burden”, by Nilanjana Bhowmick. LSE Review of Books, March 6. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2023/03/06/book-review-lies-our-mothers-told-us-the-indian-womans-burden-by-nilanjana-bhowmick/
- Devil makes work for idle hands: Time management and social status in an Indian ‘slum’ The SociologicalReviewMagazine. https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/march-2022/time/devil-makes-work-for-idle-hands/
- “To a life of the mind”: Remembering bell hooks and her writings on education as the practice of freedom Café dissensus https://cafedissensuseveryday.com/2022/06/07/to-a-life-of-the-mind-remembering-bell-hooks-and-her-writings-on-education-as-the-practice-of-freedom/
Urban studies, gender, social stratification, youth, aspirations
1) Society, Space and Culture
2) Schools, Classrooms and curriculum: Sociological Perspectives
3) Interdisciplinary Seminar Course: Self and the World
4) Sociology of India and Critical Themes in Indian Sociology
5) Introduction to fieldwork and participatory research
6) Thinking about the Field
A project on gender, transport and mobility in Delhi in collaboration with Dr. Smriti Singh (Assistant Professor, Indraprastha Institute of Technology) funded by Delhi Knowledge Development Foundation (DKDF).