[Conference 2024] Inequalities and Mobilities in Rural India: Recent Trends and Methodological Challenges
The Centre de Sciences Humaines is pleased to invite you to the International Conference on:
Inequalities and Mobilities in Rural India
Recent Trends and Methodological Challenges
on
Monday, 25th – Tuesday, 26th November 2024 from 10:00 AM onwards
To attend at the venue, e-mail to Neeru Gohar at neeru.gohar@csh-delhi.com.
Rural India still accounts for more than 60% of the Indian population. Yet, it is undergoing major and rapid transformations, such as the spread of peri-urbanisation and internal migration, the explosion of land speculation, financial and consumer markets, the reconfiguration of kinship and socialisation patterns and the ongoing degradation of natural resources. These trends are actively helping to reconfigure the dynamics underlying inequalities (economic, social, environmental and spatial inequalities) and mobility (income, social and occupational mobility). However, they are insufficiently addressed by social and development policies, whether at Indian or global level (MDGs), in large part because national or international data poorly measure them. Local or regional surveys, conducted over time among the same populations, are much better suited to understanding, contextualising and explaining phenomena and processes than standardised national and international surveys are unable to address.
This conference aims to bring together recent work using original data to both measure and understand the dynamics underlying contemporary inequalities and mobilities in rural India. It will focus on themes that are still under-studied or whose transformation requires constant attention. These include for instance the diversification of labour and migration (internal and external), the transformation of kinship, socialisation patterns and social networks and the changing nature of social identities (gender, class, caste, ethnicity, religion, location, age and so forth), the uneven advances in education and access to skills, the radical changes in consumption patterns and rise in household indebtedness, the important shifts in land ownership and use, the diversity of rural-urban interlinkages and local ecosystems and their unequal exposure to climate change. Far from operating in silos, these different aspects are intertwined, and it is precisely this intertwining that innovative first-hand data can explore. Far from being confined to local or regional scales, these different trends are shaped by and constitutive of macro trends, national and global, which micro studies must take into account and which they can inform in return.
The aim of this conference is to discuss recent findings, their implications for public policy and the methodological issues involved. While small-scale and longitudinal studies are particularly well-suited to understanding the processes underlying inequalities and mobilities, they also pose a number of challenges (comparison over time and space, free access to data, etc.). Depending on the resources available, the conference will also aim to compare the methods deployed in India and their results with other regions of the world.
Programme:
PDF version available here.
Organizing committee:
- Isabelle Guérin (IRD-CESSMA, IFP)
- Himanshu (JNU, CSH)
- Arnaud Natal (BSE, IFP)
- Christophe Jalil Nordman (IRD-DIAL, IFP)
- G. Venkatasubramanian (IFP)
- M. Vijayabaskar (MIDS)
For more info contact:
workshopinequalities2024@gmail.com
Note: The room capacity is limited. Seats will be reserved on a first come first basis. Kindly carry an ID proof to be granted access to the venue.