Avinash Kumar | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University

Avinash Kumar

Assistant Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for Informal Sector & Labour Studies,

School of Social Sciences

Off. Phone

011-26738859

avinashkumar[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in avinashmishra.jnu[at]gmail[dot]com

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in

Qualifications

Ph.D

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Land, Labour and Caste; politics of marginalization and informality; discrimination and exclusion, movements of the marginalized; labour market and Indian political economy.

Experience

4 years

International Collaboration/Consultancy

“Political Economy of Cross Class Alliances in India” in collaboration with the University of Denver, USA.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Criminalisation of Politics: Caste, Land and the State, Rawat, Jaipur, 2015.

Revisiting 1956: B R Ambedkar and States Reorganisation, (with Sudha Pai), Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2014.

The Indian Parliament: A Critical Appraisal (co-edited with Sudha Pai), Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2014.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Land Acquisition for SEZs: Contrasting Case Studies from the National Capital Region (with Sudha Pai) in Rob Jenkins, Partha Mukhopadhyay and Loraine Kennedy (Eds.) Power, Policy, and Protest: The Politics of India's Special Economic Zones, Oxford University Press, 2015.

"The Battle for Land- Unaddressed Issues" Economic and Political Weekly, June 18, 2011, 20-23.

"Fallacy of the State in Bihar", Economic and Political Weekly, November 3, 2012, Vol. XLVII, No 44, 23-25.

Patents (if any)