Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Sociology of Education, Critical Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Sound Studies, Media Anthropology, Debates in Ethnography, Interdisciplinarity.
Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, JNU (2023-Present)
Assistant Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, JNU (2014-2023).
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad (2011-14).
Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-disciplinary Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi (2009-11).
Research Associate, IIT Bombay (2007-09).
- Research Officer, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (2006).
Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the Centre for Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (April - July, 2022).
Associate Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. United Kingdom (April - July, 2022).
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Kumar, R. (2016). “Temporality as Value: Ethnography and the Question of Time”. Journal of Human Values. Sage Publications, 22(1): 46-56. Temporality as Value: Ethnography and the Question of Time - Ratheesh Kumar, 2016 (sagepub.com)
Kumar, R. (2022). Sound Subjects and Hearing Cultures: Toward an Acoustic Ethnography. Studies in Indian Politics. Sage. Vol: 10. No. 1. pp. 138–144. Sound Subjects and Hearing Cultures: Towards an Acoustic Ethnography - Ratheesh Kumar, 2022 (sagepub.com)
Kumar, R. (2018). “Theorising Experience: On Critical Pedagogy and the Subject Matter of Caste". In "Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctures", Maitrayee Chaudhury and Manish Thakur (eds). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
Kumar, R. & Parthasarathy. D. (2008). “Global Interventions in Educational Reform: DPEP and the New Curriculum: The Case of Wayanad District in Kerala”. Journal of Educational planning and Administration. Volume XXI, No.4.
Kumar, R. (2003). “Politics of School Reform Movements: DPEP and Primary Education, the Kerala Experience”. Perspectives in Education. Vol. 19, No. 1.
Kumar, R. (2025). Sounding against Culture? The Tenors of Western Music in a Colonial Small Town. South Asian History and Culture, 16(1), 28–45. January. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2024.2442819
Kumar, R. (2024). The Battlefields in the Extracurricular: From Performance to Litigation. Comparative Education Studies, 1(1). December. 2024. CES.Vol 1.1._Commentary_Kumar - Comparative Education Society of India (CESI) (cesindia.net)
Kumar, R. (2024). Confronting Privilege: Exploring the “Other Side” of Caste Inequality. In: Jodhka, S.S., Rehbein, B. (eds) Global Handbook of Inequality. Springer, Cham. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97417-6_22-1. Confronting Privilege: Exploring the “Other Side” of Caste Inequality | SpringerLink
Kumar, R. (2024). "Casting” Mentors: Critical Pedagogy and Caste-Categories in Indian Higher Education. In: G. S Suresh Babu & Arunima Naithani (eds) Cultures of Learning: Mapping the New Spaces of Critical Pedagogy in India. Routledge. “Casting” Mentors | 9 | Critical Pedagogy and Caste-Categories in Indi (taylorfrancis.com)
Remesh, Babu. P & Kumar, R. (2024). "Practising Interdisciplinarity: Convergences and Contestations". Routledge. Practising Interdisciplinarity: Convergences and Contestations - 1st E (routledge.com)
Kumar, R. (2020). “Listening Global: Sonic Texts, Technologies and the New Listening Subjects”, in V. Sujatha (ed). ‘Global Capital and Social Difference. New Delhi: Routledge.
Kumar, R. and Parayil, S. K (2020). “Cultural Life of the Senses: Starting Points” (Co-Authored with Sujith Kumar Parayil) in the special issue of Thapasam, A Quarterly Journal of Kerala Studies. Vol: XVI (1-2.): 3-29.
“Listening Global: Sonic Texts, Technologies and the New Listening Subjects”, in V. Sujatha (ed). ‘Global Capital and Social Difference. New Delhi: Routledge. 2020.
“Cultural Life of the Senses: Starting Points” (Co-Authored with Sujith Kumar Parayil) in the special issue of Thapasam, A Quarterly Journal of Kerala Studies. Vol: XVI (1-2.): 3-29. 2020.
“Theorising Experience: On Critical Pedagogy and the Subject Matter of Caste", in "Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctures", Maitrayee Chaudhury and Manish Thakur (eds). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan. 2018.
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