Vijay Raghavan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5804605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vijay Raghavan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vijay |
| FAMILY NAME | Raghavan |
| SIGNATURE | RAGHAVAN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7677-8001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Colonialism and Penality
This special issue is the result of a collective effort sustained over time and across borders, seeking to generate dialogue around the production and circulation of knowledge on penality in the global peripheries.This endeavour intentionally seeks to decentre the descriptive and interpretative frameworks concerning the penal past and present that have been constructed around the processes and dynamics of central contexts.Such frameworks have not…
Community Service
The advent of community service as a form of punishment in the Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita and the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita in 2023 has arguably provided significant potential within the frame of the criminal justice system as it prevails in India. This article endeavours to examine how community service can be situated in an emerging legal framework from three particular vantage points. Firstly, a historical perspective is canvassed so as to s…
Exploring the relationship between mobility and Covid− 19 infection rates for the second peak in the United States using phase-wise association
Human mobility plays an important role in the dynamics of infectious disease spread. Evidence from the initial nationwide lockdowns for COVID- 19 indicates that restricting human mobility is an effective strategy to contain the spread. While a direct correlation was observed early on, it is not known how mobility impacted COVID- 19 infection growth rates once lockdowns are lifted, primarily due to modulation by other factors such as face masks, s…
Imperial legacies and southern penal spaces
Southern penal spaces are marked by resemblances and affinities with colonial regimes of control, yet they also reflect quite distinctive postcolonial social and political dynamics found in the global south. Here, legacies of control, forms of exile, status reductions, hierarchical social stratifications and other like forms come together in robust modes of containment suitable for managing ‘marginal’ and ‘suspect’ populations. We draw on ethnogr…
Claim-Making Processes in Criminal Justice Social Work in India
This article discusses approaches and strategies in criminal justice social work that assert the claims of criminal justice clients over welfare and entitlements, in a context where their voices are compromised. It discusses claim-making and the dynamics underlying the process. The article reflects on the field experiences of a social work intervention project that the authors are associated with, that promotes legal rights and social re-entry of…
Centrality of Field Action in Social Work Education
This article attempts to highlight the role of Field Action Projects (FAPs) and field education for students of social work, the role that institutions of higher education can play in grounding students in critical areas of practice and innovation towards relevant interventions at multiple levels in society. The article is divided into two sections. The first section delineates the historical underpinnings of professional social work education in…
Imperial legacies and southern penal spaces
Southern penal spaces are marked by resemblances and affinities with colonial regimes of control, yet they also reflect quite distinctive postcolonial social and political dynamics found in the global south. Here, legacies of control, forms of exile, status reductions, hierarchical social stratifications and other like forms come together in robust modes of containment suitable for managing ‘marginal’ and ‘suspect’ populations. We draw on ethnogr…
Centrality of Field Action in Social Work Education
This article attempts to highlight the role of Field Action Projects (FAPs) and field education for students of social work, the role that institutions of higher education can play in grounding students in critical areas of practice and innovation towards relevant interventions at multiple levels in society. The article is divided into two sections. The first section delineates the historical underpinnings of professional social work education in…
Centrality of Field Action in Social Work Education
This article attempts to highlight the role of Field Action Projects (FAPs) and field education for students of social work, the role that institutions of higher education can play in grounding students in critical areas of practice and innovation towards relevant interventions at multiple levels in society. The article is divided into two sections. The first section delineates the historical underpinnings of professional social work education in…
Exploring the relationship between mobility and Covid− 19 infection rates for the second peak in the United States using phase-wise association
Human mobility plays an important role in the dynamics of infectious disease spread. Evidence from the initial nationwide lockdowns for COVID- 19 indicates that restricting human mobility is an effective strategy to contain the spread. While a direct correlation was observed early on, it is not known how mobility impacted COVID- 19 infection growth rates once lockdowns are lifted, primarily due to modulation by other factors such as face masks, s…
Imperial legacies and southern penal spaces
Southern penal spaces are marked by resemblances and affinities with colonial regimes of control, yet they also reflect quite distinctive postcolonial social and political dynamics found in the global south. Here, legacies of control, forms of exile, status reductions, hierarchical social stratifications and other like forms come together in robust modes of containment suitable for managing ‘marginal’ and ‘suspect’ populations. We draw on ethnogr…
Claim-Making Processes in Criminal Justice Social Work in India
This article discusses approaches and strategies in criminal justice social work that assert the claims of criminal justice clients over welfare and entitlements, in a context where their voices are compromised. It discusses claim-making and the dynamics underlying the process. The article reflects on the field experiences of a social work intervention project that the authors are associated with, that promotes legal rights and social re-entry of…
Community Service
The advent of community service as a form of punishment in the Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita and the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita in 2023 has arguably provided significant potential within the frame of the criminal justice system as it prevails in India. This article endeavours to examine how community service can be situated in an emerging legal framework from three particular vantage points. Firstly, a historical perspective is canvassed so as to s…
Colonialism and Penality
This special issue is the result of a collective effort sustained over time and across borders, seeking to generate dialogue around the production and circulation of knowledge on penality in the global peripheries.This endeavour intentionally seeks to decentre the descriptive and interpretative frameworks concerning the penal past and present that have been constructed around the processes and dynamics of central contexts.Such frameworks have not…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Criminal justice (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Law (2 works)