Dear all,

A gentle reminder that the deadline for submission to our panel is this Thursday, 30 November. Please see original post below:
We warmly invite you to submit paper proposals to our panel “Studying Up: power, politics, and practice in elite education” (P47). The panel is part of the 25th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS), which will be held 24 to 27 July 2018 at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. 

This panel seeks to bring together the growing body of work on educational institutions, interrogating more specifically the politics and practices of ‘elite’ education in South Asia in a context of growing enrolment. While the uneven quality of South Asian education is well-documented at the primary and secondary levels, (Jeffrey and Chopra 2005; Tilak 2013; Thapan 2014) less work has been done on the practice and consequences of so-called ‘elite’ higher education and the institutions that provide it.

Located in deeply unequal societies, elite institutions are both arenas of upward social mobility and social reproduction. Our ambition is to understand educational trajectories and their aftermaths in a context of increasingly privatised higher education alongside growing political surveillance, the uneven and contested implementation of positive discrimination policies, and social norms governing aspiration, achievement, and perceptions of the nation and its development.

We welcome papers from the social sciences and humanities that attend to any dimension of ‘power, politics, and practice’ in elite educational institutions. Themes might include, but are not limited to: reservations and the discourse of ‘merit’; examinations and pedagogy; gender; class mobility; mental health; political and financial patronage networks; language; nationalism.


All proposals must be sent via the website: https://www.ecsas2018.org/call-for-papers/ <https://www.ecsas2018.org/call-for-papers/> and should consist of a title, a (very) short abstract of 300 characters and a long abstract of 1750 characters.

Please circulate this call among your networks, and we look forward to hearing from you!

Anna Ruddock (independent scholar; [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>)

Jean-Thomas Martelli (sessional lecturer, Sciences Po Paris; [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
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