Ethnography and Social Identities Workshop
August 30th to 31st, 2012
Venue: TISS, Mumbai
--DAY 1-Session 1
10.00 to 11.00 am
Ethnography, social identities and development
Resource persons:
Hugo Gorringe
Suryakant Waghmore
11.00 – 11.15 am
Tea break
Session 2
11.15 am to 12.15 pm
Research Questions and Research Design
Resource persons:
Bipin Jojo and Roger Jeffery
12.15 – 1.15 pm
Field work and writing field notes
Resource persons:
Abdul Shaban and Jeevan Sharma
1.15 pm – 2.00 pm
Lunch
Session 3
2.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Participant Presentations
Note: The format of the workshop involves each participant reading and presenting the
paper/proposal of another participant. Each presenter would be given 10 mins to present
followed by 10 mins for the discussants to comment on the papers. Each presentation will
have 5-10 mins for an open discussion and comments from the participants.
Papers
An ethnographic study
of the institution of
Devdasi in Northern
Karnataka
Divya K
Television and socio
cultural identity: An
ethnographic study in
Orissa
Pranta Patnaik
Bangladeshi women
prisoners in Kolkata
prisons
Rimple Mehta
Masanjogis of
Shevgaon, Maharashtra
Presenters
Rimple Mehta
Discussants
Roger Jeffery
Suryakant Waghmore
Goldy George
Bipin Jojo
Jeevan Sharma
Qudsiya Contractor
Jeevan Sharma
Abdul Shaban
Divya K.
Bipin Jojo and Roger Jeffery
Ashok Ohol
4.00 to 4.15 pm
Tea
4.15 to 6.15 pm
Participant presentations (continued)
Papers
Religion and the
politics of space
through an
ethnography of a
‘muslim’ slum in
Mumbai
Qudsiya Contractor
Slum housing
movements in Mumbai
Kishor Birdikar
Presenters
Preeti Rani
Discussants
Abdul Shaban and Hugo Gorringe
Ashok Ahol
Abdul Shaban and Jeevan Sharma
The Duma among
Gandas of Odisha
Goldy George
Status of Muslims in a
locality in Delhi
Pranta Patnaik
Roger Jeffrey and Bipin Jojo
Kishor Birdikar
Hugo Gorringe and Abdul Shaban
Preeti Rani
--DAY 2--
Session 1
10.00 to 11.00 am
Multi-sited ethnography
Resource persons:
Jeevan Sharma and Suryakant Waghmore
11.00 to 11.15 am
Tea break
Session 2
11.15 pm to 1.15 pm
Papers
Indigenous knowledge
systems specifically kalariyappattu and
vishavaidyam
Participant presentations
Presenters
Rabiraj
Discussants
Hugo Gorringe and Sunil DS
Shahul Amin
Roger Jeffery and Bipin Jojo
Swarnamala Maske
Roger Jeffery and Abdul Shaban
Girija K.P
Suryakant Waghmore and Hugo
Gorringe
Girija K.P
Status of Lohra tribes of
Bihar
Rabiraj
Muslim women and
higher education
Zinat Aboli’s paper –
Religious identity, civil
society and the state: A
study of the youth wing
of Jamat-e-islami Hind,
Kerala
Shahul Amin
1.15 pm to 2.15 pm
Lunch
2.15 pm to 3.15 pm
Participant presentations (continued)
Papers
NGOs, micro-credit
and empowerment of
dalit women
Baburao Jadhav
Thoughts on
untouchability in
Dinmitra newspaper
Swarnamala Maske
3.15 pm to 3.30 pm
Presenters
Zinat Aboli
Discussants
Jeevan Sharma and Suryakant
Waghmore
Baburao Jadhav
Hugo Gorringe and Suryakant
Waghmore
Tea break
Session 3
3.30 to 4.30 pm
Self and reflexivity
Resource person:
Hugo Gorringe
Session 4
4.30 to 5.30 pm
Conclusion and Feedback
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