Avishek Jha
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avishek Jha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avishek |
| FAMILY NAME | Jha |
| SIGNATURE | JHA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ashoka University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2431-6021 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Unemployed Youth Agency and Geographies of Educational Support in Urban North India
The emergence of large numbers of educated unemployed people across the world remains a major social challenge. Research on unemployed young people has tended to emphasise a lack of agency. Many studies depict jobless youth as aimless and detached from their social and spatial situation. This paper uses an account of the practices of educated unemployed young people in Uttar Pradesh, North India, to challenge this depiction. Drawing on fieldwork …
This is Caste Power
Curating an 'educational environment
This article argues how a set of educational entrepreneurs are positioning emerging commercial facilities called 'libraries' as sites of preparation that can help young people in their attempts for upward mobility in a north Indian city. Commercial libraries largely represent 'commodified study spaces' that cater to the non-formal educational needs of educated, unemployed young people such as need for spaces to engage in uninterrupted study, acce…
Religiosity, Space-making, Exclusion
Through an ethnographic study of Kanwar Yatra celebrations in a north Indian city, this article seeks to highlight the changing notions of public religiosity and mass celebrations in contemporary India. This article will first show how the festival of Kanwar Yatra is invested with diverse forms of religious performance and carnivalesque celebrations. In itself, these celebrations especially provide young people with avenues for fun and entertainm…
Expanding the Vote Base in Uttar Pradesh
The Sangh Parivar has essentially merged the registers of Mandal and Mandir by way of creating a viable political block for themselves in Uttar Pradesh. Based on an ethnographic study of the Sangh Parivar in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh and through interviews and participant observation, the article examines the roles played by various elements of the Sangh Parivar in expanding the vote base of the party. First of all, the article analyzes how the Sangh…
Expanding the Vote Base in Uttar Pradesh
The Sangh Parivar has essentially merged the registers of Mandal and Mandir by way of creating a viable political block for themselves in Uttar Pradesh. Based on an ethnographic study of the Sangh Parivar in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh and through interviews and participant observation, the article examines the roles played by various elements of the Sangh Parivar in expanding the vote base of the party. First of all, the article analyzes how the Sangh…
This is Caste Power
Curating an 'educational environment
This article argues how a set of educational entrepreneurs are positioning emerging commercial facilities called 'libraries' as sites of preparation that can help young people in their attempts for upward mobility in a north Indian city. Commercial libraries largely represent 'commodified study spaces' that cater to the non-formal educational needs of educated, unemployed young people such as need for spaces to engage in uninterrupted study, acce…
Religiosity, Space-making, Exclusion
Through an ethnographic study of Kanwar Yatra celebrations in a north Indian city, this article seeks to highlight the changing notions of public religiosity and mass celebrations in contemporary India. This article will first show how the festival of Kanwar Yatra is invested with diverse forms of religious performance and carnivalesque celebrations. In itself, these celebrations especially provide young people with avenues for fun and entertainm…
Expanding the Vote Base in Uttar Pradesh
The Sangh Parivar has essentially merged the registers of Mandal and Mandir by way of creating a viable political block for themselves in Uttar Pradesh. Based on an ethnographic study of the Sangh Parivar in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh and through interviews and participant observation, the article examines the roles played by various elements of the Sangh Parivar in expanding the vote base of the party. First of all, the article analyzes how the Sangh…
Religiosity, Space-making, Exclusion
Through an ethnographic study of Kanwar Yatra celebrations in a north Indian city, this article seeks to highlight the changing notions of public religiosity and mass celebrations in contemporary India. This article will first show how the festival of Kanwar Yatra is invested with diverse forms of religious performance and carnivalesque celebrations. In itself, these celebrations especially provide young people with avenues for fun and entertainm…
This is Caste Power
Curating an 'educational environment
This article argues how a set of educational entrepreneurs are positioning emerging commercial facilities called 'libraries' as sites of preparation that can help young people in their attempts for upward mobility in a north Indian city. Commercial libraries largely represent 'commodified study spaces' that cater to the non-formal educational needs of educated, unemployed young people such as need for spaces to engage in uninterrupted study, acce…
Unemployed Youth Agency and Geographies of Educational Support in Urban North India
The emergence of large numbers of educated unemployed people across the world remains a major social challenge. Research on unemployed young people has tended to emphasise a lack of agency. Many studies depict jobless youth as aimless and detached from their social and spatial situation. This paper uses an account of the practices of educated unemployed young people in Uttar Pradesh, North India, to challenge this depiction. Drawing on fieldwork …
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Uttar pradesh (2 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Biology (1 work)