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Dr. Advaita Rajendra

Assistant Professor, Public Policy & Sociology

Advaita Rajendra
Dr. Advaita Rajendra
Assistant Professor
Public Policy & Sociology

B.Tech (ECE), BIT, Mesra, PhD: Public Systems Group, IIM, Ahmedabad

01704-277358

Biography

Teaching and Research Interest

Eco-social entrepreneurship, Public Policy, Data visualisation for policy making, Design thinking, Gender and caste at workplaces, Government systems, Qualitative research methods

Research and Consultancy Projects

Awards And Honours

  • Won the Prof. Tirath Gupta Memorial Award for Best Thesis, 2022 at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (2022).
  • Received Asian Development Bank funding for travel and stay for RC21 Urban and Regional Development (2019).
  • Received the Asha Khanna Trophy for securing 100% marks in Mathematics in 12th boards (2009).

Publications

Dissertation

  • Title: Governing by (in)visibilising: A case of waste and waste- work
    It is an ethnographic examination of governance practices that ‘selectively (in)visibilise’ waste, waste-work and waste infrastructures through classification, relabelling, ignoring, erasures, and celebrations.

Journal Publications

Journal Publications (under review)

  • Rajendra, A., & Sarin, A. (submitted). Framing of manual scavenging in India: A historical understanding of the policy discourse. In Brown P. (eds.) The politics and practices of re-interpretation – using interpretative methods to understand change in public administration. Journal of Public Administration.
  • Rajendra, A., & Chennangodu, R. (R&R). Half of my body is working at the office and the other half is at home”: Narratives of placemaking while working from homes in rural and small-town India. Culture and Organization.

Book Chapters

  • Rajendra, A., & Sarin, A. (under review). Exploring (in)visibilisation of waste-work in small-town India: A case of self-help groups In (eds) M. Zapata Campos, P. Zapata, J. Gutberlet, F. Valenzuela, A. Stowell, Re-Opening the Bin, Bristol University Press.
  • Rajendra, A., & Harriss-White, B. (2023 forthcoming).  The skills of ‘city-makers’: waste-work in small-town India’, In (eds) S. Schwecke, S. Maitra & S. Maitra, Crafting India’s skill ecology – Reproductions, recalibrations, and reimaginations. Sage.
  • Mathur, N., Mittal, H., Rajendra, A. & Pathak, M. (2019). Ahmedabad/ GIFT. In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Other Articles

Peer Reviewed Journal Papers

  • Asst. Professor, IIM Sirmaur (January 2023 onwards)
  • Asst. Professor, O.P. Jindal Global University (October 2021 - December 2022)
  • Lecturer, O.P. Jindal Global University (July 2021 - September 2021)
  • Consultant, Rapid Rural Community Response (RCRC) to COVID-19 (September 2020 – Jul 2021)
  • Research Associate, IIM, Ahmedabad (October 2014 – June 2015)
  • Consultant, PriceWaterHouseCoopers, Mumbai (September 2013 – September 2014)

Conferences

  • Rajendra, A., & Chennangodu, R. (2022). Embodied knowledge systems in the creation of a piece of cloth: Re-empowering connections between creation, consumption and beyond. Gender, Work and Organization.
  • Rajendra, A., & Chennangodu, R. (2021). Reconsidering coworkers and care-workers: home as a coworking space. The 12th International Conference in Critical Management Studies, BML Munjal University.
  • Rajendra, A., & Sarin, A. (2021). (In)visibilizing waste and waste-work through numbers, 3rd International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP5), Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) and International Public Policy Association.
  • Rajendra, A., & Harriss-White, B. (2021). The social life of skills in waste-work, The Social Life of Skills Workshop, The University of Melbourne.
  • Rajendra, A., & Sarin, A. (2021). (In)visibilizing waste and waste-workers: a case of self-help groups, Re-opening the bin - Waste, economy, culture and society, School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenberg.
  • Rajendra, A., & Sarin, A. (2021). (In)visibilisation of waste and waste work: intersections of gender, caste and organisational form, Gender, Work and Organization, University of Kent, Kent Business School and Gender, Work & Organisation.
  • Rajendra, A., & Sarin, A. (2019). ‘Visibilising’ waste and waste-workers: A case of the National Cleanliness Survey, International Research Society for Public Management, Victoria University, Wellington.
  • Rajendra, A., & Sarin, A. (2019). (De)valuation of waste and waste work: A story of a small town in central India. RC21 Urban and Regional Development, Delhi Contemporary, Center for Policy Research and Ambedkar University Delhi.
  • Rajendra, A., & Sarin, A. (2019). Framing of manual scavenging in India: A historical understanding of the policy discourse, International Research Society for Public Management, Victoria University Wellington.
  • Rajendra, A., & Sarin, A., & Mathur, N. (2017). Conceptualizing the problem of ‘unwanted’ girls and analyzing the Indian State’s response, 3rd International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP3), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore.
  • Rajendra, A., & Sarin, A. (2017). Situating residential education in the socio-cultural life of adolescent girls in India, XII International Conference on Public Policy and Management, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Books and Book Chapters

Case Studies