Indian Research Scholars Association
Organizing
Book Discussion on
To Be or Not to Be Sociological Methodological Ways of Seeing
23 June 2025: Time, 05 P.M
Presided by: Prof. Ila Martinbhai Macwan, Professor & Head, Department of Sociology, Sardar Patel University, Gujarat
Introductory Remark: Dr. Dev Nath Pathak, Associate Professor of Sociology, South Asian University, Delhi
Panelist: Prof. Amiya Kumar Das, Head of Department of Sociology, Ambedkar Chair Professor (i/c), Tezpur University, Assam
Panelist: Prof. Mrigendra Bahadur Karki, Executive Director, Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies (CNAS), Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Panelist: Dr. Juanita Kakoty, Assistant Professor, Centre for Liberal Arts, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Panelist: Dr. Saroj Kumar Dhal, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Lucknow
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Organising Committee Members
Vikash Kumar, President of the Indian Research Scholars Association
Dr. Hemant Kumar, Post Doctoral Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Ganeshi Lal, Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Rimlee Kalita, Research Scholar, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh
Mrs. Asha Rajpurohit, Assistant Professor, Government College, Sailana
Manorama Kuntal Department of Political Science Jamia Millia Islamia
Sakshi Singh, Research Scholar, Faculty of Education, Banaras Hindu University, Kashi, BHU
Shubhangi Amble, Research Scholar, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Maharashtra
Papi Halder, Ph.D. Scholar, Lucknow University
Arpanpreet Kaur, Research Scholar, Central University of Punjab
Sunita V Yadav, Research Scholar at D.T.S.S COLLEGE, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Brief About the Book: This book has been written by Dr. Dev Nath Pathak and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2025. This book addresses various contemporary issues of Sociology and gives new methods to resolve. What does it mean to be sociological? This is not a rhetorical question since it leads to unearthing the prevalent ways of seeing in the discipline of sociology, taking notes of the content and discontent, disputes, and debates. Intellectual theatrics embedded in sociology, philosophy, and the history of sciences, helmed with insights and enchantment, compel us to treat methodology as a dramatically invigorating field of perceptions and practices. This book marshals such varied materials to wishfully unsettle the gingerly settled debates to curate ruptures for further explorations. Experience thus becomes an intriguing episteme and knowledge, a reflexive endeavour. The message writ large is that methodology is not, and shall not be, a finished product unless parochialism and progress have become synonymous in sociology in India and South Asia.
Cover Page of the Book
About the Author:
Dr. Dev Nath Pathak is an Associate professor in Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi (India). He has a doctorate in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and his research interests consist broadly of cultural performances, art, music, and popular cinema in the region of South Asia. He is reviews editor of the journal ‘Society and Culture in South Asia’ (a journal of the South Asian University, published by Sage India) and on the editorial board of Journal of Human Values (IIM, Calcutta). Some of his recent publications include: Living and Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore; he has edited Another South Asia, and coedited Culture and Politics in South Asia; Performative Communication, Sociology and Social Anthropology in South Asia: Histories and Practices, and other such works opening new frontiers in research. He was a visiting scholar at Brown International Advanced Research Institute, at Brown University, and a Charles Wallace fellow at Queen’s University Belfast.The most recent publication includes a monograph, Living and Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore (Primus, 2018), and edited books, Culture and Politics in South Asia: Performative Communication (Routledge, 2017), Another South Asia! (Primus, 2017), Sociology and Social Anthropology in South Asia: Histories and Practices (Orient Blackswan, 2018), Intersections of Contemporary Visual Art, Anthropology and Art History: Decoding Visual World (Palgrave, 2019) & Investigating Developmentalism: Notions of Development in Social Sphere (Palgrave, 2019). Besides, he is reviews editor of the journal, Society and Culture in South Asia (Sage) & editorial member of Journal of Human Values (Sage).
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