Current Projects:
Working on current projects focusing on areas of urban informality, migration, labor mobility, fiscal trends of populism, welfare and spatial development in urban areas across India, South Asia, and with an extended focus on cities of Phnom Penh, Siem Reap in Cambodia, Southeast Asia.
Courses Taught:
Political Economy of Late Development (with a focus on India and China)
Biography
Deepanshu Mohan is a Professor of Economics and Dean, IDEAS, Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Director, Centre for New Economics Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University. He is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Academic Visitor (2024) at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Oxford. He is currently a senior Honorary Research Fellow with Birkbeck College, University of London and has previously held visiting professorships and honorary affiliations at the University of Ottawa (Canada), Carleton University (Canada), Stellenbosch University (South Africa), FGV (Brazil) to name a few.
His latest books on Crisis Narratives: Pan India Stories of Informal Workers during Covid-19 and Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India have been published with Palgrave MacMillan (Springer Nature) and Routledge (London and New York) respectively. His last book, Strongmen Saviours: A Political Economy of Populism in India, Turkey, Russia and Brazil was published in 2023 by Routledge (London and New York). He writes frequently for Indian print newspapers like Mint, Deccan Herald, Hindustan Times and digital platforms like BloombergQuint, The Wire, Scroll, The Print, NDTV. More details on his academic profile, publications and research can be accessed from here
Educational Background:
Books
- Pan India Stories of Informal Workers During Covid-19 Pandemic: Crisis Narratives (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024). Link here
- Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India: Perspectives from a Feminist Ethnographic Approach (Routledge, 2024). Link here
- Strongmen Saviours: A Political Economy of Populism in India, Turkey, Russia and Brazil (Routledge, 2023). Link here
More in the CV shared here
Research Interests:
Informality, Welfare, Feminist Ethnographies, Spatial Development focusing on South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Links:
Twitter Link: @Deepanshu_1810
LinkedIn Link: Deepanshu Mohan
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