R. Thirunavakarasu

MY RESEARCH AREAS

• NATION AND NATIONALISM
• POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF CASTE
• SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

PUBLICATIONS

• CHANGING EQUATIONS IN TAMIL NADU: ELECTION 2001 IN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY, Vol.36, pp.2486-89.July 7th – 13th, 2001
• CIVIC ELECTIONS: POLITICS FROM ABOVE IN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY, Vol. 37.February 23rd – March 1st, 2002
• TRACING THE JUDICIAL TRAJECTORY ON SOCIAL JUSTICE, BOOK REVIEW OF “MOHD.ASHRAF ALI: JUDICIAL RESPONSE TO SOCIAL JUSTICE” IN THE HINDU, April 15th, 2014
• SELECT PUBLICATIONS IN TAMIL ‘INAM KANDU KOLVOM’ OP-ED PAGE ARTICLE IN ‘THE HINDU-TAMIL’ April 2nd, 2014
• ‘ILAM VAAKKALARKALUKKU’ OP-ED PAGE ARTICLE IN ‘THE HINDU-TAMIL’ April 9th, 2014
• ‘VARALARU MUKKIYAM’ OP-ED PAGE ARTICLE IN ‘THE HINDU-TAMIL’ April 28th, 2014
• ‘MIRUKANGALIN KALACHARA MOZHI’ OP-ED PAGE ARTICLE IN ‘THE HINDU-TAMIL’ September 4th, 2015
• “MAARAATHA PUNNAKAIYIN MARANAM” ARTICLE IN ‘KALACHUVADU’– TAMIL LITERARY MAGAZINE. April, 2017
• GADDAR: PURATCHIYIN MOZHI ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN KALACHUVADU – TAMIL LITERARY MAGAZINE, May 2017

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

• PRESENTED A PAPER ON “SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF DALIT MOVEMENT IN INDIA” 2 DAY SEMINAR Organized jointly by Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai and Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Sriperumpudur, October 29th, 2014
• PRESENTED A PAPER TITLED “METAMORPHOSIS OF LOYALTY: LIMITS OF TAMIL NATIONALISM AND THE RISE OF THE BJP IN TAMIL NADU”
• AT A SEMINAR ON A THEME ‘NATIONAL, STATE AND LOCAL ELECTIONS IN INDIA (2014-15): ANALYSIS AND REFLECTIONS,’ Organized by EECURI Network Conference in Sariska, Rajasthan. January 18th-19th, 2016
• DELIVERED A LECTURE TITLED ‘CASTE, INEQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY’
• At the School of Public Policy and Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad February 4th, 2016
• PRESENTED A PAPER TITLED “CASTE, GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS” AT THE NATIONAL SEMINAR “DR B.R.AMBEDKAR’S VISION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA” Organized by the School of Economics, University of Hyderabad August 30th, 2016
• CHAIRED A TECHNICAL SESSION ON “DR B R AMBEDKAR’S PERSPECTIVE ON STATE, SOCIETY AND ECONOMY: REVISITING HIS VISION AND MISSION”
• Organized by Dr B R Ambedkar 125th Year Birth Anniversary Celebrations Committee, University of Hyderabad, February 22nd, 2017
• DELIVERED THE KEY NOTE ADDRESS – “RESURGENT INDIA: THE ROLE OF RURAL ECONOMY”
• At the Greatlakes Institute of Management, Chennai May 7th, 2017
• DELIVERED A TALK TITLED “AMBEDKAR’S BUDDHISM AND THE MAKING OF MODERN NATION”
• AT THE SEMINAR “DOING AMBEDKARISM TODAY” Organized by the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Kolkata February 19th, 2018