The New Political Economy Initiative at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode is hosting the first edition of the Economy & Society Winter School as part of its ‘Social Structures of the Economy’ Research Cluster from December 9-21 this year.
About the Winter School
- When: December 9th – 21st, 2024
- There is no registration fee
- Application deadline: 4th August, 2024
- Application review and interviews: 5th to 30th August, 2024
- Announcement of final student cohort: 15th September, 2024
Through this Winter School, we want to encourage sociology and social science scholarship in the Global South to study how the material aspects and economic facets of life are produced and reproduced through social and political processes and for the scholarship in economics to be attentive to the mutual embeddedness and symbiotic relationships between markets, states, societies, and cultures. We want to incubate a scholarly community in the Global South locales to take these new approaches more formally in their own research and work.
Who can apply?
Applicants can range from advanced undergraduates to Master’s and PhD scholars looking to gain exposure in the fields of economic sociology and other allied areas such as social structures of accumulation (SSA). We also welcome applications from journalists, independent researchers and young lecturers. For the 2024 iteration, we are looking for candidates from the Global South only.
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All students in the cohort will receive a fellowship covering the full costs of travel. Students who are not based in India or require a visa to travel to India will also receive support to cover the visa fee. Accomodation and group meals will be provided without any additional cost to the students on the IIM Kozhikode campus for the entire period of the winter school.
Curriculum
This winter school will feature a series of lectures and interactive tutorials that introduce students to both fundamental and frontiers themes within the field of economic sociology. Some of the topics that will be covered across the two weeks –
- Introduction to economy and society as a field
- Methods and debates that illuminate the understanding of economy and economic phenomena
- Embeddedness
- Network (Economic Exchange as Social Exchange)
- Relational (Cultural meaning and Market Transactions)
- Neo-Polanyian (The Institutional Foundations of Market Society)
- Performativity/Economic Expertise
- New Monetary Circuits
- Varieties of Capitalism
- Development & Growth
- Indian Capitalism
- Racial Capitalism
- Caste and Capital
- Caste & Entrepreneurship
- Economic Sociology of Informal Work
- Economic Sociology of Migration
- The Development of Labor under Contemporary Capitalism
- Organisation of work beyond the state regulation; Markets as social structures
- Translating transactions: Markets as epistemic and moral spheres
- Complexity and dynamism of agricultural markets, regional capitalism and economic life in India
- Financialization
- The political economy of international organisations and foreign aid
- Neoliberalism and Post-Neoliberalism
- Technology, Platforms and Algorithm
- Political economy of natural resources and changing views about the relation between nature and society
- Relationship between nature and society
- Capitalism and nature
- Unpacking commodification of nature
- Methodological questions at the intersection of nature, economy, and society
- Institutional dynamics and everyday life of public systems and bureaucracies
- Problem solving sociology
Although the lectures and discussion sessions will dominate the 13-day schedule, these combined with a basic but essential project component will be a requirement for the certification of successful completion. Towards this end, there will be ample time for informal collaboration with peers and instructors. This combined with the residential nature of the winter school, we hope that students engage with their peers and resources persons.
Faculty members
- Patrick Heller, Brown University
- Monica Prasad, John Hopkins University
- André Vereta-Nahoum, University of Sao Paulo
- Carol Upadhya, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru
- Priya Sangameswaran, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata
- Simone Polillo, University of Virginia
- Anush Kapadia, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- Nitsan Chorev, Brown University
- Rina Agarwala, John Hopkins University
- Sebastian Schwecke, Max Weber Stiftung – India
- Mariana Luzzi, San Martin University, Argentina
- Harish Damodaran, Indian Express
- Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Ashoka University
- Mufsin Puthan Purayil, O.P. Jindal Global University
- Omkumar Krishnan, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
If all of this sounds exciting to you, please fill out the application form. Any queries by prospective candidates can be sent to office.cle@iitb.ac.in. We look forward to seeing you on the other side!
Organising Committee for 2024 edition
- Anush Kapadia
- Sonal Raghuvanshi
- Simone Polillo
- Rowena Robinson
- Tony Kurian
- Omkumar Krishnan