Pradeep Shinde, Assistant Professor in Sociology, CIS&LS Pradeep's interests lie in such categories as work, mobility, labour, and Denotified tribe. Along with these, he has also explored the concepts of caste, kinship, gender, and the state in his ethnographic research. As a doctoral fellow from the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Programme (IFP) at the Department of Anthropology of the London School of Economics (2002-2005), Pradeep undertook his ethnographic research in the Mumbai slum of Dharavi between 2004 and 2006 for his PhD which he received in January 2011. His doctoral thesis explores the everyday struggle of a Denotified tribe, the Kunchikorves, in a Mumbai slum. More specifically, Pradeep looks at the mobility that Kunchikorves have gained through various forms of work (the formal and the informal) by using their kinship as well as interpersonal networks. After obtaining his PhD, Pradeep received a DAAD Teaching fellowship to teach at the International Centre for Development and Decent work, Kassel University, Germany, under the India Passage programme, for three months (April 11, 2011 to July 11, 2011). In the following year, Pradeep received another fellowship (IGK Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History) from the centre re: work at Humboldt University, Berlin, for three months (Oct 1 - Dec 31, 2012) to pursue his research on contract sanitary workers hired by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Publications
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