(Visiting Researcher)

Biography:

Gideon Mathson is a Sociologist who recently taught, as Assistant Professor, at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Christ University. He completed his M.A and MPhil in Sociology from the Delhi School of economics. The title of his MPhil thesis was Imaging Protest: Tactics, Crowds and Networks, which described the relationship between images and space in relation to urban protests. His PhD thesis entitled Socio-Economic Effects of the 2013 flash floods in Uttarakhand, was completed at Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida and looked into the effects of the 2013 flash floods on land stability in the district of Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand, as well as the effect of the same on Land Administration. He also studied the compensation schema in the wake of the disaster and psycho-social effects of the disaster, to communities in Rudraprayag. While writing up his PhD thesis Gideon also undertook research on homelessness in Old Delhi, which he is currently writing up into a monograph. He is currently engaged in starting out a larger archival project on laws that curtailed vagrancy in the country and is also developing a project that looks into the incidence of violence faced by the homeless in Delhi.

Publications:

Research Papers

Mathson, Gideon. 2021. ‘Perspectives on the lockdown in Delhi’s night shelters’. Contributions to Indian Sociology ,Vol. 55, Issue-2. https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667211006776

Mathson, Gideon. 2024. ‘Caste Based Lists and Fading Maps: Bureaucratic anxiety and shifting landscapes in Himalayan Uttarakhand’. Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol 57. No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/00699659241233611

Mathson, Gideon. 2024. ‘Remembering place: the temporality of trauma in Rudraprayag after the 2013 flash floods’, Cultural Anthropology, Vol 39. Issue 4. https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/5574

Book Reviews

Mathson, Gideon. 2021 ‘Book review: Aase J. Kvanneid. 2021. Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account’. Contributions to Indian Sociology Vol. 55 Issue 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667211063825

Reports Co-Researched

Mathson, Gideon. 2011. ‘Partnerships for equity in education in South Asia’. United Nations Girls Education Initiative and the South Asian Forum for Educational Development.