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📢 New Fieldwork Reflection Alert!

Trust, Tension, and Testimonies: Navigating Fieldwork as a Dalit Woman Researcher

✍ S Prasanna, Research Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad

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Belonging in Transit
✍️Sahib Singh Tulsi, PhD

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New Private Liberal Education Universities

✍️ Shruti Shankar, PhD Scholar, National Institute of Advanced Studies Shruti Shankar

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📢 New Fieldwork Reflection Alert!
Working with the Margins: Reflections from an Urban Periphery of Kerala
✍️Krishna Prabha V, PTS-III (Social Worker), Indian Council of Medical Research, Puducherry

📖 Read the full article here: https://t.co/guBuuHPhz4

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📢 New Fieldwork Reflection Alert! When the Field Looks Back: Police, Weed, and the Researcher

✍Mamoon Bhuyan, Doctoral Researcher, Brunel, University of London @niyoror_xubaax

📖 Read the full article here: https://t.co/4vxPyDzTUq

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📢 New Fieldwork Reflection Alert! Learning Through Interruption: Fieldwork Reflections from Urban Borderlands in Northeast India

✍Sanskriti, PhD Research Scholar, School of Liberal Arts, IIT Jodhpur @thatSanskriti

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Navigating Field as an In-Between Researcher: Reflections from Assam’s Borderlands

✍️ Manjita Devi (https://t.co/EgrpHSLF9E)

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📢 New fieldwork reflection out now:
“Encountering Privilege: Accessing the World of the Middle Class in Shimla” by Ravi K. Bharmouri, PhD scholar (JNU)
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SASEI welcomes you to an interactive online session on:
Grant Writing in the Social Sciences with Dr. Maya Ratnam, Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University

15th November, 2025 (Saturday) | 6-7:30 PM

Register Here: https://t.co/vyh6XdU3U4

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📢 New Fieldwork Reflection Alert!

Negotiating Access and Acceptance in the Field: Entering an Unknown Territory

✍Ikhlaq Ul Rehman Mir, PhD Scholar, Institute of Kashmir Studies, University of Kashmir Srinagar

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New Keyword Entry: "Time Debt and Banked Time"
✍️ @CoraLinglingXu
Durham University, UK

Dr. Xu describes “Time Debt and Banked Time," concepts related to 'time inheritance' from her latest book.

Read the entry here: https://t.co/BgZg1RvCKx

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📢 New Fieldwork Reflection Alert!

Between Belonging and Distancing: Dilemmas of Performing Brahminhood

✍Bhawesh Pant, Senior Research Fellow, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, @bhaweshpant14

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📢 New Fieldwork Reflection Alert!

Trust, Tension, and Testimonies: Navigating Fieldwork as a Dalit Woman Researcher

✍ S Prasanna, Research Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad

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https://t.co/okUnSj5WOC

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Dhaka, 2024: Reflections of a Researcher Amidst Crisis

✍Dr. Monisha Lakshminarayan @NarayanMonisha

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We had an engrossing and in-depth discussion on "School Ethnography: Complexities of Sustained Access and Changing Researcher Positionalities" in diverse fields in India with panellists Samiksha, Vikash and Odity, and chaired by Dr Rashmi Kumari.

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Invisibility and the Convergence of Formal and Informal Practices: Field Reflections on Tracing Early Care Labour Migration of Nursing Students from Kerala to Germany
✍️Dr. Tobias Santosh Großmann
📖Full article: https://t.co/3Y4gkrhw7b

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Online interactive discussion:

School Ethnography: Complexities of Sustained Access and Changing Researcher Positionalities

With the panellists: Samiksha Rohilla, Vikash Sharan and Odity Barthakur
20/09/2025, 6-7:30 PM
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We had an insightful talk on the topic "Rethinking Ignored Folk Artists from Maharashtra: Stage Pedagogy, Challenges and Aspirations" delivered by Kalpana Sonawane, followed by an engaging discussion with the audience.