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CSLG organises a seminar by L. N. Venkataraman

CSLG organises a seminar by L. N. Venkataraman

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CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND GOVERNANCE

Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

SEMINAR SERIES

 

L. N. VENKATARAMAN

Department of Policy Studies, TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERI SAS)

 

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 Bylane Becomes the Main Road: Adaptive Preferences and the Social Construction of Capabilities in a Tamil Village

 

Abstract : India is historically known for its social stratification based on ascriptive statuses of the caste system in the world. The inheritance based on ascription prefers “few” at the hierarchy where they most often enjoy socio-economic privileges. In this background, the current analysis of the social construction of capabilities is specifically based on the adaptive preferences (APs) of educated under-employed youths (EUEYs) in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. As the Chapter is conceptualising the Capabilities Approach (CA) (Sen 1999), it underscores complex interactions between human agencies and the social structures. For this, the reflexive insights have been collected from an ethnographic restudy of Sripuram in Tanjore district. 

3.00 pm, Friday, 16 April 2021

 

 

About the Speaker: L. N. Venkataraman is a Faculty at the Department of Policy Studies in TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERI SAS). Before joining TERI SAS, he worked as an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Education in Universität Bielefeld, Germany; and, at the Centre for Development Support in the University of the Free State, South Africa. His academic works can be consulted in the Economic and Political Weekly, Development in Practice, and Indian Journal of Human Development among others. He was a Research Fellow of the Centre for Research on Higher Education and Development (CRHED) in South Africa, and the Research School on Education and Capabilities (EduCap) in Germany. As an active member of the Human Development and Capabilities Association (HDCA), USA since 2008, he is one of its Coordinators of Education Thematic Group (2021). Prior to this, he was coordinating the HDCA's Thematic Group activities of Participatory Methods (2014-2020) and Emerging Researchers’ Group (ERG) [2012-13] European Educational Research Association (EERA), Germany. 

 

The Seminar will be held online via Zoom

Please register at the link given below for the seminar: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpdu-oqDMvHNZ5XUs7k06PVQNsO7X8VjsQ 

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