Krithika Srinivasan

Biography

Krithika has a master’s degree in social work (urban and rural community development) from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India. Her MA thesis explored equity, accountability and environmental concerns in solid waste management in Chennai city.

After her MA, Krithika worked at TISS as Programme Associate, Director’s Office, where as part of the institutional restructuring programme of TISS, she was involved in the development of detailed proposals for establishing centres of disaster management and habitat studies, in initiating a field action project on urban homelessness, and organizing a regional workshop on municipal and bio-medical waste management. In addition, she also designed and conducted a study on post-tsunami relief and rehabilitation processes in Tamil Nadu, leading a three member team for field work and report writing related to the study.

email: krithika.srinivasan@kcl.ac.uk

Research

Supported by a Commonwealth Scholarship, Krithika's doctoral research project examines human-animal relationships in India. Specifically, it compares public debates around the conservation of Olive Ridley turtles with another case, that of street dogs, which unsettles conventional categories by which environmental controversies are traditionally understood in India, as indeed more generally. In so doing, it critically analyses the power effects generated through discourses of development, sustainability, and welfare involved in governing the relationships of a more-than-human world.

This study is supervised by
David Demeritt and Jamie Lorimer.

Publications

Srinivasan, K. (2010) The Social Science Imagination in India: Deconstructing Boundaries and Redefining Limits, Sociological Bulletin, 59 (1), January-April 2010, pp. 22-45 pdf

Srinivasan K., and Nagaraj V.K., (2007) Deconstructing the Human Gaze: Stray Dogs, Indifferent Governance and Prejudiced Reactions, Economic and Political Weekly, March 31, Vol. XLII, No. 13, pp. 1085-86 pdf

Srinivasan K., and Nagaraj V.K., (2006) The State and Civil Society in Disaster Response: Post-Tsunami Experiences in Tamil Nadu, Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, Vol 5, Nos.3/4, pp. 57-80. (http://jswdr.haworthpress.com) pdf

Srinivasan K., (2006) Public, Private and Voluntary Agencies in Solid Waste Management: A Study in Chennai City, Economic and Political Weekly, 3rd June, pp.2259-2268. pdf

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (2005) The State and Civil Society in Disaster Response: An Analysis of the Tamil Nadu Tsunami Experience, Mumbai: Tata Institute of Social Sciences (www.tiss.edu)

Attached files

› Srinivasan & Nagaraj deconstructing the human gaze (pdf, 53 KB)
› Srinivasan & Nagaraj 2006 disaster response (pdf, 104 KB)
› solid waste management (pdf, 53 KB)
› Srinivasan 2010 social sci imagination in India (pdf, 206 KB)