Roundtable with senior academics including our very own Dr. Jasmine Fledderjohann at the Politics and Practices of Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice at School Of The Arts Library – University of Liverpool, Liverpool.
British Journal of Sociology Conference, LSE, UK
Project team will be presenting at the British Journal of Sociology Conference, 15-16 April 2024, LSE, UK
- Dr Ankita Rathi will be discussing her paper titled ‘Food Insecurity, Labour Precarity, and Debt in India Links between Debt and Social Reproduction‘ in the upcoming BJS conference.
- Dr Swayamshree Mishra will be discussing her paper titled ‘Research with children: Deciphering meaning-making and agency through an intersectional approach‘
Conference details can be found here. More information about the papers to follow.
Project team presenting at British Sociological Association (BSA 2024)
Project team presenting at British Sociological Association – Virtual Annual Conference 2024: Crisis, Continuity and Change
Dr. Charumita Vasudev will be presenting a paper entitled – What a ‘Good Mother’ Eats : Food Choices, Sacrifices and the Politics of Provisioning. This paper discusses how socially constructed ideals of a ‘good mother’ affect women’s daily choices, preferences , planning for and allocation of food within the family.
Project team presenting at Population Association of America (PAA 2024), Annual Meeting
Project team presenting at Population Association of America (PAA 2024), Annual Meeting
Dr. Charumita Vasudev will be presenting a paper entitled – Understanding the demographics of food insecurity: A praxis-oriented reflexive approach . The paper questions the focus on objectivity in demographic research and suggests methods to generate data that is closer to the lived realities and can thus better inform policy.
Expert Interview Series: Professor R. Ramakumar on food insecurity in India
7th episode of the Expert Interview Series is OUT on our YouTube Channel. Dr Swayamshree Mishra is in conversation with Professor R. Ramakumar, a Professor in the School of Development Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences and non-ministerial member of State Planning Board, Government of Kerala.
BMC Medicine is calling for submissions!!
Call for papers on Food environments and health is LIVE NOW. You can find more details on the link here.
Our very own Dr. Jasmine Fledderjohann is part of the guest editorial team, and will be editing this Special Collection from BMC Medicine on food environments and their impact on public health.
Dr Swayamshree Mishra’s talk at the University of Oxford
Dr Swayamshree Mishra will be presenting a talk on ‘Food, education, and aspirations: An intra-household narrative analysis of the mid-day meal scheme in India’ on 26th Oct at the University of Oxford.
This is a hybrid event, open for all to attend. You can join on zoom.
Details
Free seminar, but registration is required before 2pm on 26th
LAARG Reading Group
Lancaster Asia Area Research Group (LAARG)
Reading Group June 2023
Date: Monday, 26th June
Time: 2.30 – 3.30pm
Venue: Online on MS Teams
This session is open for all to attend.
Dr. Charumita Vasudev will be leading an open discussion on the reading by Ajantha Subramanian called ‘Meritocracy and Democracy: Indian Reservations and the Politics of Caste’.
This article talks about India’s move towards an embrace of caste quotas, or reservations, as a necessary mechanism of recompense and redistribution. The author takes up the tensions between different approaches to democracy and their implications for addressing historical inequalities.
LAARG Reading Group
Lancaster Asia Area Research Group (LAARG)
Reading Group October 2023
Date: Friday, 27th October
Time: 12 – 1pm
Venue: Lancaster University
Dr. Swayamshree Mishra will be leading an open discussion on the reading by Professor Janaki Abraham called ‘What will the neighbours say?’: Legitimacy, Social Control and the Sociocultural Influence of Neighbourhoods in India.
This article talks about the importance and influence of neighbourhood on lives of the people, their behaviour and how it shapes their preferences in Indian context, while also highlighting how gender is produced in these settings. This article argues that the narrative of neighbourhood is as vital as caste, class, ethnicity or religion.
Project Workshop – 2
In this Project Workshop, the research team led by Dr. Jasmine Fledderjohann and supported by Drs. Ankita Rathi, Charumita Vasudev, and Swayamshree Mishra will interact with key stakeholders of the project. The workshop will include the following:
- Fieldwork team presentation on challenges and early insights from the field
- Open discussion with stakeholders, including covering:
- Thoughts on fieldwork challenges and addressing them
- Views on initial findings
- Thoughts on how our work can be helpful for stakeholders—anything we are doing especially useful? Not useful? Anything we should be doing, but aren’t?
- Thoughts on how our findings can be used to meaningfully improve lives.