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Karen Coelho
Assistant
Professor
Madras Institute
of Development
Studies
79, Second Main
Road,
Gandhinagar,
Adyar, Chennai -
600 020
Tamil Nadu,
INDIA.
E-mail: karenc@mids.ac.in
/
karen.coelho@gmail.com
Tel:
0091-44-24412589
/ 24419771 Extn:
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Fax: 0091 - 44 -
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EDUCATION
NOVEMBER 2004:
Obtained Ph.D in
Sociocultural
Anthropology
(Minor in
Applied
Anthropology) at
University of
Arizona, Tucson,
AZ, USA. Title
of dissertation:
Of Engineers,
Rationalities
and Rule: An
Ethnography of
Neoliberal
Reform in An
Urban Water
Utility in South
India
SEP 93: Obtained
M. Phil in
Development
Studies from
Institute of
Development
Studies (IDS),
University of
Sussex,
Brighton, UK.
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AWARDS AND
HONORS
2005: Richard
Carley Hunt
Fellowship,
awarded by the
Wenner-Gren
Foundation for
Anthropological
Research, for 1
year, to work on
preparing my
dissertation
manuscript for
publication.
2005:
Independent
Fellowship with
SARAI, The New
Media
Initiative, a
programme of the
Center for Study
of Developing
Societies, Delhi
(6 months)
2004: Research
Fellowship with
the Foundation
for Urban &
Regional Studies
University of
Essex, U.K. (3
months)
2001-2002:
Junior
Fellowship
(Dissertation
Research) with
the American
Institute of
Indian Studies
(11 months)
1999: Haury
Scholarship
(duration 5
years) from the
Department of
Anthropology,
University of
Arizona for
graduate studies
in anthropology.
1999: Edward P.
Dozier Award for
paper entitled:
“Timed Out:
Temporal
Struggles
between the
State and the
Poor in the
context of
Welfare Reform”
1997-98:
Graduate College
Fellowship,
University of
Arizona, for
graduate studies
in anthropology.
1991-93:
Commonwealth
Scholarship for
Master's study
in the U.K.,
awarded by
governments of
Britain and
India. |
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WORK HISTORY
CURRENT (SINCE
SEP 2006):
Assistant
Professor at the
Madras Institute
of Development
Studies,
Chennai, India,
focusing on
urban governance
and reforms.
JAN 2005 – AUG
2006:
Independent
scholar studying
urban collective
action and urban
reforms in
Chennai.
JUNE 1995 – AUG
1997: Research
Associate with
the Bureau of
Applied Research
in Anthropology
(BARA) at the
University of
Arizona, working
on food
security,
gender, welfare
reform, state
policy.
JAN TO JULY
1994:
Consultant on
Women and Local
Government with
Mahila Samakhya,
(a
quasi‑governmental
agency
organizing rural
women around
education and
literacy in
Karnataka).
JAN 1987 TO AUG
1991:
Program
Associate in
Asian Community
Health Action
Network, (ACHAN),
a
non‑governmental
organization
based in
Chennai,
networking among
community health
programs in
South and
South‑East Asia.
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TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
CURRENT:
Deliver two
annual lecture
series, one on
History of
Development
Thought and
another on
Ethnographic and
Qualitative
Methods for
Ph.D students at
Madras Institute
of Development
Studies.
MARCH TO JUNE
2009:
Taught a
graduate seminar
entitled “Urban
Politics in
India” at the
Jackson School
of International
Studies,
Unviersity of
Washington,
Seattle, WA,
USA.
JUNE/JULY 2003:
Taught a summer
course “ANTH
310: Culture and
the Individual”
at the
Department of
Anthropology,
University of
Arizona. |
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SELECT
PUBLICATIONS
Coelho, Karen
and T.Venkat.
(2009). “The
Politics of
Civil Society:
Neighborhood
Associationism
in Chennai.” In
Economic and
Political Weekly,
vol xliv, nos 26
& 27, June 27,
2009.
Coelho, Karen.
(Forthcoming).
“The Slow Road
to the Private:
A Case Study of
Neoliberal Water
Reforms in
Chennai” in
Water Law at the
Crossroads In
India : National
and
International
Perspectives.
Ed. Phillippe
Cullet et al.
Delhi: Cambridge
University
Press.
Coelho, Karen
(2008). Book
Review of
Drowned and
Dammed: Colonial
Capitalism and
Flood Control in
Eastern India
by Rohan
D’Souza.
Oxford
University
Press, New
Delhi, India.
2006. In
Conservation and
Society
6(2): 2008
Coelho, Karen.
2006. “Tapping
In: Leaky
Sovereignties
and Engineered (Dis)Order
in an Urban
Water System.”
In SARAI
READER 06:
Turbulence.
Ed. Monica
Narula et al.
Delhi: Centre
for the Study of
Developing
Societies.
Pp.497-509.
Coelho, Karen.
2006. “The
Footprint of the
Offshore Oil
Industry on
Community
Institutions.”
Chapter 5 in
Research in
Economic
Anthropology,
Volume 24,
Markets and
Market
Liberalization:
Ethnographic
Reflections,
edited by C.
Werner and N.
Dannhaeuser.
Elsevier Press,
Jan 2006,
pp.123-162.
Coelho, Karen.
2005. “The
political
economy of
public sector
water utilites
reform” in
Infochange
Agenda
(quarterly
journal of the
Centre for
Communication
and Development
Studies, Pune,
India) Issue 3,
October 2005.
Coelho, Karen.
2005. “Unstating
'the public': an
ethnography of
reform in an
urban public
sector utility
in south India.”
In
Anthropology
Upstream: The
Ethnography of
Aid Donors and
Neoliberal
Reform,
edited by
David Mosse &
David
Lewis. London:
Pluto Press,
pp.171-195.
Coelho, Karen.
“Infrastructure
Investment As
‘Sustainable
Development’: A
Bangladesh Case
Study.” In Human
Resource System
Challenge VII:
Human Settlement
Development,
edited by Saskia
Sassen and Peter
J. Marcotullio,
in
Encyclopedia of
Life Support
Systems (EOLSS),
Developed under
the auspices of
the UNESCO,
EOLSS
Publishers,
Oxford, UK,
[http://www.eolss.net].
Jain, L.C. and
Karen Coelho.
1996: In the
Wake of Freedom:
Tryst with
Cooperatives,
Concept
Publishers, New
Delhi. |
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RESEARCH
INITIATIVES
CURRENT:
Building an
interdisciplinary
research program
on
Transformations
in Informal Work
in South India.
CURRENT: A
dialogic history
of slum
resettlement
policies and
slum-based
collective
action in
Chennai
Metropolitan
Area.
2006-2008:
Principal
Investigator on
a comparative
study of
Collective
Action around
Urban Service
Delivery in
Bangalore and
Chennai, for the
Development
Research Center
on The Future
State, based in
the Institute of
Development
Studies, Sussex.
June to Oct 2005:
Directed a
mapping project
on Collective
Action related
to Urban Service
Delivery, in
collaboration
with the
Institute of
Development
Studies, Sussex,
U.K., for the
for the
Development
Research Center
on The Future
State, based in
the Institute of
Development
Studies, Sussex,
supported by the
Department for
International
Development (DFID),
Government of
U.K.
Jan to
August2005:
Research on
urban water
conflicts in
Chennai city,
under a
short-term
fellowship from
SARAI, the New
Media
Initiative,
Centre for the
Study of
Developing
Societies (CSDS),
Delhi.
July 2001 to Nov
2004:
Dissertation
research on
neoliberal
reforms in the
urban water
sector in India.
March 1995 to
2001: Research
Associate with
Bureau of
Applied Research
in Anthropology
(BARA),
University of
Arizona. |
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OTHER
Initiator
of a citizen’s
platform called
“Walking Classes
Unite” for
advocacy on
pedestrian
rights in
Chennai city.
Co-founder of
the Citizen’s
Water Forum, an
advocacy group
for sustainable
water management
in Chennai city.
Advisory
Committee
Member: Research
Project on
Displaced
Populations run
by the Social
Work Department
of Stella Maris
College,
Chennai.
Member of
Editorial
Committee for
Review of
Development and
Change:
Journal of
Madras Institute
of Development
Studies. |
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