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Dev Nath Pathak

Associate Professor & Chairperson (Sociology)
PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2011)

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dev(at)soc.sau.ac.in
South Asian University ,Rajpur Rd, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, Delhi 110068
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I am currently coordinating the academic administration of the Department while teaching courses to MA and Ph.D students. My courses are experimental in disposition and they envisage students’ intellectual courage for exploring new sources, thematic aspects, and imaginative academics on the whole. My own researches are geared to serve the same as expected from the students. I am currently working on the philosophy of social sciences in curating methodological perspectives in addition to my decade long engagement with the interface of literature and folklore in Mithila. I imagine mine and my students’ academic endeavours to transcend the national boundaries in research, scholarship and writings. I humbly advocate advancement of scholarship with due sensibility and responsibility towards society.

The researches conducted by the young scholars under my supervision are aimed at the societal meaning making process in mediated and visual communication, language, popular culture, and rite of the passage.  

Besides, I am one of the editors of Society and Culture in South Asia (the journal of Department co-published with Sage, India).

 

Qualifications


  • PhD in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University , in 2011
  • M. Phil. (Dissertation Title: Ideas of Motherhood in Maithili Folksongs- A Psychoanalytical Study) in Sociology & Social Anthropology from Center for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi , in 2005
  • M.A. in Sociology & Social Anthropology from Center for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi , in 2003

Research Interests

  • Folklore & Performance, Popular Culture & Media (Cinema, Music, & Theater)
  • Theoretical & Methodological Issues in Social sciences; Epistemology and Philosophy in Social Science
  • Education (Schooling & Teaching), Youth and Resistance

Research Articles


  • Serbet Sensorium: A Sociological Methodology in Phanishwarnath Renu's Parti Parikatha, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 59, Issue No. 4, 27 Jan, 2024
  • Covid Cuts in Sociology of South Asia, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 59, Issue No. 9, 02 Mar, 2024
  • Ontology of Being and Becoming, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 58, Issue No. 10, 11 Mar, 2023
  • Hari Mohan Jha's Khattar Kaka: Humorous Subversion of Hinduism in Mithila, South Asian Review, 43(3–4), 315–332, 2022
  • Idea of Research Writing in Sociology: Polemics on the Loss of a Transformative Practice, Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 70, Issue 2, 2021.
  • Folklore's Contemporariness: Dynamics of Value Orientation in Bihu, Journal of Human Values, Vol. 25, Issue 3, 2019
  • Cinematic Ambivalence on Borders: Ifs and Buts of Popular South Asia (co-authored with Anakshi Pal), South Asian Cultural Studies, Special Edition (2018)
  • In the Land of Lalon: Enigmatic Interface of Religion and Politics in Bangladesh (co-authored with Ratan Kumar Roy), International Journal of Humanistic Ideology, vol. 8, no. 1, (2018)
  • Narrating Nation, Performing Politics: A Conversation with Vasudha Dalmia (2018, Akar)
  • Rigid Religion and Fluid Faith: Religion and Politics in South Asia (a special issue of International Journal of Humanistic Ideology, coedited with Santosh Kumar Singh) (2018)
  • Melodramatic South Asia: In Quest of Local Cinemas in the Region, Journal of Human Values, 23(3) 1–11
  • Politics of Clicking: A Survey of Blogging in South Asia, coauthored by Dev Pathak and Ratan Kumar Roy, in Shana Udupa and Steve McDowell edited, Media as Politics in South Asia (2017, Routledge, London)
  • A Quest of Alternative(s): A Conversation with Ruth Manorama, Indian Journal of Women and Social Change, 1: 2, 2016
  • Angry Youth in South Asia and Socio-political Implications: A Soliloquy in Dark Times, Artha, 15: 1, 2016
  • Intersections of Sociology, Art and Art History: A Conversation with Parul Dave-Mukherji, edited and introduced by Dev Pathak (2016, Akar, Delhi)
  • Bliss and Blase of Fun Voyages: A Polemic on the Underdeveloped Consciousness of Development, Journal of Development Management and Communication, 2(2), 2015.
  • In Pursuit of the Spectacles of Success, History and Sociology of South Asia, 2015,  9(2) 126–145
  • Mooting South Asia: Utopias and Possibilities beyond Geo-political Calculus, Sociological Bulletin, 64(2), 2015.
  • Cultural Imagination of Human Development?: Framing Questions, Internaitonal Critical Thought, 2014, 4(4): 433-447
  • Cinematic Imagination of Multiple Gandhi, Gandhi Marg, 2013, Vol. 35, No. 2, page: 231-245
  • Marxiological Notes on the Perforated Sheet of Marxism, The Book Review, vol. XXXVII, no. 9, September 2013, page: 8-11
  • Singing in the veil: Resistance, redefinition and reconciliation in the Maithili folksongs. In Bismoy Pati and Lata Singh Edited. 2013. Colonial and Contemporary Bihar and Jharkhand. Delhi: Primus
  • Through Purdah: Social Criticism in Women’s folksongs from Mithila, SAARC Culture, Vol. 4, 2013, page: 19-39.
  • Nero’s sublime flute recital: A teaser for teacher education in India, Mainstream , VOL XLIX, No 26, June 18, 2011.
  • Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India, Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews September 2011 40: 597-599
  • Experiment with Possibilities: A new genre in Teaching.. Contemporary Education Dialogue, vol.4 No.2 (2007), 285-288
  • Where to kill is the byword for growth . Mainstream , xlv: 19 ( August 28, 2007), 3-4
  • Bringing up the imaginative and emancipated learner. Mainstream , xliv:49 (Nov. 25, 2006), 21-22
  • The reconstructed Normal: Representation of the Disabled in popular Cinema (forthcoming)

Books

Monographs

In Defence of the Ordinary: Everyday Awakenings (Bloomsbury, 2021)

पंचभूत: सांस्कृतिक और शैक्षणिक विमर्श (सेतु प्रकाशन, २०२३) 

Living and Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore (Primus Books, 2018)


Edited Books

Seeing South Asia: Visuals Beyond Borders (edited, Routledge, 2022)

Neighbourhood & Neighborliness in Urban South Asia: Subjectivities and Spatialities (edited, Routledge, 2022)

Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Art History in South Asia: Decoding Visual World (edited, Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019)

Investigating Developmentalism: Notions of Development in the Social Sphere (edited, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

Culture and Politics in South Asia: Performative Communication (edited, Routledge, London, 2017)

Modern South Asian Thinkers (coedited, Sage, 2018)

Another South Asia! (edited, Primus, 2018)

Awards & Honours

  • Scholar In Residence, Center for Human Values, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (2019)
  • Charles Wallace Fellow @ Queen’s University, Belfast, UK (2015)
  • UGC-IIAS Associateship @ Indian Institute of Advance Studies, Shimla
  • BIARI- 2013 Fellowship at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA

Last Updated : 17 Apr 2024