MR. PARTHASARATHI MONDAL
Assistant Professor (Senior Scale)

Centre for Development Studies
SCHOOL
OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

E-mail: pmondal@tiss.edu

Qualifications

  • B.A., University of Burdwan
  • M.S.W, Agra University
  • M.Phil., Jawaharlal Nehru University

Areas of Interest

  • Selfhood, Pathology and Well-Being
  • Livelihoods, Environment and Health
  • Imperialism
  • Methodological Foundations in Social Sciences

Teaching

  • Seminar on Advanced Psychiatry
  • Social Work in the Field of Mental Health
  • Social Sciences and Health
  • Historical and Contemporary Ideologies of Social Work
  • Sociology
  • Theoretical Approaches in Social Research
  • Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of Development Research
  • (Co-Teacher) Philosophy of Methodology
  • (Co-Teacher) Political Economy of Development
Research
  • (Co-Researcher) Health Expenditure in a Tribal PHC Area. (TISS)
  • (Co-Researcher) Negotiated Livelihoods: Contending Development Visions of Tribal Villagers in Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary , India. (IDPAD)
  • (Principal Coordinator, Western Region) Household Survey on Food Safety and Quality Control of Drugs in India. (World Bank)

Field Action

  • Project Director : Integrated Rural Health and Development Project, Thane, India, 2000-2006.

Recent/Significant Publications

  • (Co-Author) Household Expenditure on Tribal Health, Jharkhand Journal of Development and Management Studies , 3(1), 2005.

Additional Relevant Information

Recent Academic Presentations

  • (Co-Presenter) 'Urbanization in India: Biggest Public Health Challenge'. Annual Conference of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, Johannesberg, September 2005
  • (Co-Presenter) 'Indigenous Peoples: Development, Exclusion, Hegemony'. Colloquium on South Africa / India: Re-Imagining the Disciplines, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesberg, May 2006
  • Cosmology, Science and People's Perspectives: Community Participation in the National Mental Health Programme'. National Seminar on Participation and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, March 2007
  • 'Politics and Mental Illness in Agrarian Bengal: The Household Picture'. National Seminar on Bhagat Singh and Beyond: Rethinking Radicalism in Indian Society, Culture and Politics, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, March 2007
  • Development as Freedom and Justice: An Essay on Sen and Rawls'. Workshop on Development Studies, LSE, London, June 2007
  • 'Wittgenstein, Quietism, and a New Dawn'. 82nd Session, Indian Philosophical Congress, Tirupati, October 2007
  • 'Governance of Tribals in the Hinterland of Mumbai: A Livelihoods Analysis'. Seminar on Democratic Decentralization and Tribal Labour, Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute, Ahmedabad, December 2007
  • ' Markets, Justice and Ecology'. INSEE Workshop on Compensation and Rewards for Ecosystem Services, Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, February 2008

Workshops / Seminars Organised

  • National Workshop on Exclusion, Hegemony, Development: Tribal Livelihoods and the Search for Alternative Road Maps
  • (Co-Organizer) National Workshop on Curriculum of MA in Development Studies and Consultations on Newly Created Centres

Curricula Design

Social Sciences and Health; (Co-Designer) Society: Structure, Culture and Change; (Co-Designer) History and Ideologies of Social Work; Philosophical and Methodological Foundation of Development Research; (Co-Designer) Political Economy of Development; (Co-Designer) Concept, History and Theories of Development; (Co-Designer) Philosophical Foundation to Development Research.

M.A. Research Supervision

Mental Health; Health and Development.

Life Member/Fellow

Indian Philosophical Congress, Indian Psychiatric Society, Indian Association for Social Psychiatry, Indian Public Health Association, Indian Science Congress Association, Indian Sociological Society, Indian Political Science Association; Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists; Indian Psychological Association; Indian Academy of Applied Psychology; Indian Society for Medical Statistics; Indian Association for Cultivation of Sciences; Indian Society for Ecological Economics;National Association of Geographers, India; Greenpeace India; Bangiya Arthaniti Parishad; Indian Radical Humanist Association; Bombay Association for Trained Social Workers

Member, TISS Committees

Academic Council, Library Committee, Curriculum Review Planning Group (Social Work), Advisory Committee, UGC DRS Programme (MPSW), Working Group (Development Studies)

Coordination

Research Seminar (MPSW), 1998-2004

 

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