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Dr. L. N. Venkataraman (Laksh) is an Associate Professor at MIT WPU, School of Liberal Arts. Previously, he was in TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERI SAS) in New Delhi and is the author of The Social Construction of Capabilities in a Tamil Village. 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. As a university professional, he has been closely associated with various scholars; public intellectuals in India as well as abroad; and actively sharing perspectives and delivering lectures. 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 (2021-23). 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.

Research Area:

Higher Education, Governance, Welfare, Political Economy

Publication List:

1) Venkataraman, L. N. (2021), The Social Construction of Capabilities in a Tamil Village, Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi [ISBN 978-81-948295-9-1].

2) (2019), “Publication or Public Action? Discursive spaces of disengagements in India”, In G. S. Suresh Babu (Ed.) Education and the Public Sphere: Exploring the Structures of Mediation in Post-Colonial India, Routledge, The United Kingdom. (93-105). [ISBN 9781138495371].

3) (2018), “Capitals and Capabilities: Social reproduction of inequalities in Sripuram”, In Lopez-Fogues, Aurora and Firdevs Melis Cin (Ed), Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development: Rethinking Opportunities and Agency from a Human Development Perspective, Routledge, New York. (pp. 92-107). [ISBN-13: 978-1138234680].

4) (2014), “Caste, Class and Education: The intersectional implications of capabilities formation in a South Indian village”, In Otto and Schäfer (Ed.), New Approaches Towards the Good Life: Applications and Transformations of the Capability Approach, Barbara Budrich Publishers, Germany, (pp. 107-121). [ISBN 978-3-8474-0157-5].

5) Jha, Pravin et al., (2007), Government Financing of School Education in India, ActionAid India, New Delhi. Journal Articles [Refereed]

6) (2024), “Complexities of Gatekeeping in Delhi: A Reflexive Account” The Eastern Anthropologist, Vol. 77, No. 1, (pp. ). (Co-authored with Sanchi Jain) [ISSN 0012- 8686]. (In Press)

7) (2021), “Complexities of Gatekeeping: A Reflexive Account” The Eastern Anthropologist, Vol. 74, No. 1, (pp. 77-95). (Co-authored with Ashmeet Kaur) [ISSN 0012- 8686]

8) (2018), “The privatisation of public welfare in India”, Social Work & Society, Vol. 16, Issue 2, (pp. 1-5). [ISSN 1613-8953].

9) (2018), “Can Lateral Entry in the IAS Ensure Good Governance?”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 53, No. 32, (pp. 1-6). [ISSN 00129976].

10) (2016), “New Education Policy and the continuing contentions in India”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 51, No. 35, (pp. 47-50). [ISSN 00129976].

11) (2016), “Social Sciences in India: Premises and promises of Capability Approach” Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol. 10, No. 1, (pp. 1-11) [ISSN 0973- 7030]. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0973703016654560

12) (2015), “Social construction of capabilities and intersectional complexities in a Tamil village”, Development in Practice, Vol. 25, No. 8, (pp. 1170-1181), [ISSN 0961-4524]. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2015.1083537

13) (2014), “Orphan-schooling in India: A reflexive account from Sripuram”, Sociological Bulletin: Journal of the Indian Sociological Society, Vol. 63, No. 2, (pp. 302- 313), [ISSN 0038-0229]. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0038022920140207

14) (2014), “Caste and the mainstream narratives”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLIX, No. 6, (pp. 76-77). [ISSN 00129976].

15) (2013), “Quality, employability and capabilities: The enduring elusive triangle in Indian education”, ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, (April 2013/ 127), (pp. S. 30-47). [ISSN 0721-5231].

Google Scholar Link

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ORCID link

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4694-0770