Sarbani Sharma
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Anthropology of Resistance and Political Movements
- Philosophies of Freedom and Sovereignty
- Everyday Islam
- Caste and Social Stratification in Muslim Societies
- Climate Change in Conflict Zones
- Green Politics in Germany
Biography
She works on itineraries of political aspirations and articulations of freedom and sovereignty in Kashmir. Prior to joining Azim Premji University, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology in the University of Tübingen, Germany. She has completed her Ph.D from Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics and Masters in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She has previously taught Sociology at undergraduate level for four years in University of Delhi. She is currently working on her first book manuscript and working upon developing her second project on political economy of environmental disasters in India and Green Politics in Germany.
Her work has been recently published with the Contributions to Indian Sociology, Society and Culture in South Asia and Political and Legal Anthropological Review.
Courses
Urban India: Trajectories of Development
A course to help students discern sociological, political-economic, and phenomenological tenets on urbanisation and urbanisms in India that aid the students to map and analyse the interconnections, flows and processes of development.
Theories and Histories of Development
Histories and theories of development across contexts, tracing changes in the meaning of the practice of development.
Foundations of Social Research and Reasoning
Foundational aspects of research by using examples from developmental research and debates in India.
Publications:
Journal Articles
- Sharma, S. (2021). Redefining Public Health and Life in Occupation? : COVID 19 Pandemic in Kashmir. Special issue on ‘Social Distancing, COVID-19 and South Asian Experiences’ in Society and Culture in South Asia. 7(1), 141 – 147. https://doi.org/10.1177/2393861720977014
- Sharma, S. (2020). Labouring for Kashmir’s Azadi: Ongoing Violence and Resistance in Maisuma, Srinagar. Contributions to Indian Sociology. 54(1), 27 – 50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966719890525
- Sharma, S. (2019). Social Lives of forms, applications and files in University of Delhi. JMC Review: An Interdisciplinary Social Science Journal of Criticism, Practice and Theory. 3, 158 – 168. https://www.jmc.ac.in/uploads/staticfiles/jmcreview/vol3/The%20JMC%20Review%20Sarbani%20Sharma%20on%20University%20Bureaucracy.pdf
Other Short Academic Articles
- Sharma, S. & Saraf, A. (2020, September 8). Borderland Citizenship. PoLAR Online on Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). https://polarjournal.org/2020/09/07/borderland-citizenship/
- Sharma, S. (2020, August 5). Chicaneries of Power and Subterfuge: Constitutional Laws on Kashmir. Speaking Justice to Power Series. Association of Political and Legal Anthropology. https://politicalandlegalanthro.org/2020/08/05/chicaneries-of-power-and-subterfuge/
- Sharma, S. (2021). Redefining Public Health and Life in Occupation? : COVID 19 Pandemic in Kashmir. Special issue on ‘Social Distancing, COVID-19 and South Asian Experiences’. Society and Culture in South Asia. 7(1), 141 – 147. https://doi.org/10.1177/2393861720977014
- Sharma, S. (2020). Labouring for Kashmir’s Azadi: Ongoing Violence and Resistance in Maisuma, Srinagar. Contributions to Indian Sociology. 54(1), 27 – 50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966719890525
- Sharma, S. (2019). Social Lives of forms, applications and files in University of Delhi. JMC Review: An Interdisciplinary Social Science Journal of Criticism, Practice and Theory. 3, 158 – 168. https://www.jmc.ac.in/uploads/staticfiles/jmcreview/vol3/The%20JMC%20Review%20Sarbani%20Sharma%20on%20University%20Bureaucracy.pdf