Thinking Less, Producing More? A Freirean Critique of AI in Research – Amit Yadav
In A Pedagogy for Liberation (1987), Ira Shor and Paulo Freire criticised the banking model of education, in which learners…
Do Social Studies Need Semantic Validation from the Natural Sciences?: Opinions and Questions – Niloy Pratim Kashyap
Some two years ago, I wrote an article for Doing Sociology, emphasising the need for a more rigorous critical lens…
Understanding Positionality of the Dalit Female Researcher in Urban Fieldwork – Priyanka Mokale
Positionality plays a crucial role in research and varies over time. Convincing and demonstrating your social identity as a researcher…
Reflecting on the Enterprise of Research Through the Lens of Linda Smith – Umang Verma
Research and epistemic violence The word ‘research’ is probably one of the dirtiest words in the Indigenous world’s vocabulary, argues…
The Complex Conundrum: Being an Insider, an Outsider, or Both – Apeksha Srivastava
Recently, I attended a talk by Aditya Pratap Deo, a history professor at St Stephen’s College, Delhi. This session, held…
Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future edited by Irfan Ahmed (2024): A Review by Adarsh Shahi
What do we do when we do anthropology? Ethnography? An almost reflexive answer in today’s time. This growing conflation between…
Research Grant Proposal Development: A Session With Riddhi Bhandari
Riddhi Bhandari is an anthropologist with interests in studying market dynamics, governance, entrepreneurialism, and aspirations, broadly within the framework of…
You Are Not An ‘Ideal’ Brahmin: A Reflexive Note – Bhawesh Pant
Recent socio-anthropological studies have made the concept of reflexivity (Wilson & Karliova, 2021) apparent by drawing attention to researchers’ inter-subjective…
Some Musings Of A Science Communication Researcher – Apeksha Srivastava
I became a science communicator (writer) first and a science communication researcher later. Since I started research, I have increasingly…
In Praise of Criticality: An Opinion on the Production of Academic Research in India – Niloy Pratim Kashyap
Social science research in India, or at least much of it, has been characterized by a banal reiteration of an…