Social Scientists in the Civic Space

Auteur

Arundhati Virmani, historian at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Marseilles, works on transformations of cultural and political practices from the colonial period to the contemporary moment in India and in Europe.

Jean Boutier Professor emeritus of early modern European history at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Marseilles) and former director of the Norbert Elias Centre in Social Sciences (2002-2011) is a specialist of comparative history of social elites.

Manohar Kumar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-D) Delhi, India.

Texte du rabat

The book explores the stakes for the social sciences around four central problems: the challenges of context; modes of intervention; involvement; and the ethical dilemmas for the scholar in a democratic space.

Contenu

Introduction

1. French historians' interventions in a world in crisis, 1925-1939
2. Discovering the genocide of the Rwandian Tutsi: civic engagement or activism?
3. Why so few economists become public figures?
4. The freedom of the foreign scholar? Writing national histories from afar
5. Three forms of expertise in social sciences
6. Citizen economist or economist citizen?
7. Experiencing Last-Mile Welfare. Field Notes from Six Districts in India
8. Addressing food security in India: the debate on Targeting vs Universal distribution
9. Social sciences and social policy reforms in a democratic system : insights from Scandinavia and France
10. Anti-gender movements and gender studies in two national contexts: France and Brazil in the last decade
11. Feminist research engagement and civic space in India
12. The role of experts in society
13. Social Sciences and forecasting: the state and big data revolution in India
14. Defining norms of civility : disobedience as protest
    Epilogue