Lecturer
INDIA
“INTERNATIONAL OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER AWARD” in “SOCIOLOGY”
I am interested in the teaching of sociological imagination in helping to create new realities. My first books, on Tourism in India – Shifting Paradigm, developed a theory which sought to account for the Tourism theory of the sociological imagination in the wake of modernism. My first book has widened the scope of this inquiry, to address the sociology of development more broadly. This edited volume “Gender Based Violence – A Global Perspective” presents a novel and insightful examination of gender-based violence, inviting readers to consider this topic from various perspectives. Beside this I have written numerous articles in international journals. I teach primarily in the modern and contemporary sociology at college level. I have taught special author courses and a range of period courses, as well as courses on sociological theory, on development and displacement, and on land acquisition and policies. I lecture on writers and topics from the nineteenth century to the present. I also teach across the wider theoretical range, on the sociology of the development, and on the tradition of sociological imagining. I have supervised more than hundred graduate students, on topics ranging from science and the humanities to literature and encyclopaedism to literary arts to language and artificial intelligence.