Vijitha Rajan
@vijitharajan88
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Never tired of knowing new people, places and cultures!
Bengaluru, India
Joined April 2013
Vijitha Rajan's thought-provoking presentation focusing on dominant resources and exclusionary dynamics in education of marginal childhoods in India in our Identity, Belonging and Otherness stream @vijitharajan88 #childhoods2024 @UniofSuffolk
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New Keyword Alert! "Technical Rationality" by Vijitha Rajan (Faculty Member, School of Education, Azim Premji University) https://t.co/UKzZFecxv0
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Vijitha Rajan writes about the politics of life and margins in this new piece for Doing Sociology. @vijitharajan88
https://t.co/UniPivytbe
doingsociology.org
It hit the headlines recently that the Mumbai Corporation draped many slums in the city with curtains and posters ahead of G20 Summit in an attempt to hide the ‘unaesthetic’ life worlds of slum...
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Early in October number theorist Yitang Zhang announced that he had made progress towards resolving a weaker version of the generalized Riemann hypothesis. Here is an exposition on the topic I wrote for @TheWireScience
Euclid found long ago that there are infinitely many prime numbers. However, they are not distributed evenly: they become less common as they become larger. https://t.co/HY3a12OgGQ
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Vijitha Rajan @vijitharajan88 looks at the relationship between sociological perspective, identity crisis and educational practice from her teaching experience in Azim Premji University. @azimpremjiuniv
https://t.co/IzZgaMjEll
doingsociology.org
The very nature of sociological imagination is that it unsettles our everyday beliefs and practices. Sociological imagination questions our common sense (Madan, 2019), and its unexamined and uncons...
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Migrant Children and ‘Free’ Education in India
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Schooling of migrant children in India is compromised for various reasons, such as their mobility, disadvantaged backgrounds, and exclusionary experiences of schooling. Such contexts and experiences...
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Migrant childhoods and schooling in India: contesting the inclusion-exclusion binary
tandfonline.com
Modern schooling systems operate through normative and sedentary framings of childhood, within which migrant childhoods get constructed as outliers. This paper problematizes the discriminatory ways...
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Look for a short article of mine on 'migrant children and ethnography'!
The April 2020 Issue (Volume 12, Issue 1) of NEOS is here! Join us in opening this exciting issue, entitled “Rich Pasts, Future Horizons: A New Decade in the Anthropology of Children & Youth” Many thx to authors, editors & reviewers who made it possible! https://t.co/Kppe1vu8ZJ
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In very many subtle ways that we don't even recognize, the world runs around control over female sexuality. Be a "good" girl and half of your life's problems are suprisingly solved!
Is patriarchy more concerned with sexual repression or social reproduction?
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