The Practice of Visual Ethnography
The Practice of Visual Ethnography: Reflections from Working with Vulnerable Communities across India
Thursday 20th November 2025
15:00-16:30
E2.02 (Social Sciences Building)
About the talk:
This talk will draw upon the field-research undertaken by Professor Mohan’s research team at the Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES), India, focusing on narratives of daily emergencies/crises, livelihood transitions experienced by vulnerable, unsecured shramiks (working communities) living across urban India. The work is most recently documented in The Practice of Visual Ethnography(Palgrave MacMillian, Forthcoming, 2026) and other recently co-edited books: Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India: Perspectives from a Feminist Ethnographic Approach; Crisis Narratives: Pan-India Stories of Informal Workers During Covid 19 Pandemic; and Identity, Dispossession and Resilience of the Subaltern: A Study of Marginalised Communities in Kashmir out with Routledge, Taylor and Francis (2024), Palgrave MacMillan, Springer Nature (2024), and Routledge, Taylor and Francis (2025), respectively.
About the speaker:
Professor Deepanshu Mohan Link opens in a new windowhas taught courses in areas of comparative political economy, development studies, research methods, is with the Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities at JGU, where he is also Director, Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES), and Senior Research Fellow, International Institute of Higher Education (IIHED).
He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department (AMES), University of Oxford, and an Honorary Research Fellow with Birkbeck School of Social Sciences, University of London since 2023. At the LSE, he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Economic History (2025) and a Visiting Professor at the Saw Swee Hock SouthEast Asia Centre (2024). Beyond the UK and India, Prof. Mohan has also held visiting positions and affiliations for research roles at FGV (Brazil), Stellenbosch University (South Africa), University of Ottawa (Canada), Carleton University (Canada).