Anwita Dinkar

DOCTORAL THESIS

Since 2021:
Thesis in progress: “From Dust to Dignity: Exploring legal consciousness among urban India’s female cleaning workers”
Thesis Director: Jérôme Pélisse

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COMMUNICATION 

Organizing rights: Theorizing self-norms of paid domestic workers in India. CSO-IOA early career researcher workshop on theorizing. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. 22-24 May 2024.

Mobilizing the law: a preliminary analysis of the role of unions in shaping the legal consciousness of cleaning workers in Nagpur, India. Doctoral day on the Sociology of Law and Justice. l’Association française de sociologie (AFS). Sciences Po, Paris. 16 May 2024. 

Informal Strategies in the Absence of a Specific Legislation: A Self-Norms Analysis of Female Domestic Workers in India. 17th Annual South Asia Legal Studies Workshop. University of Wisconsin Law School. Dec. 1-2 2023.

Everyday legality: An empirical analysis of legal consciousness in India. Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) Workshop. New Delhi, India. Oct. 9, 2023.

Law as justice? Exploring access to justice in India. 8th Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law (OSI) Conference. Osnabrück, Germany. 23 July, 2022

Maid in Maharashtra : Domestic labour relations and position of paid domestic workers in Maharashtra, India. Seminar series on Domestic Work. Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CSO), Paris, France. 14 Dec., 2021

PUBLICATIONS

2022
Dinkar, Anwita. (2022). “Overcoming Class Boundaries During Empirical Research with Vulnerable Communities” Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies Blog. Oxford: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. https://frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/class-boundaries/

2021
Dinkar, Anwita. (2021). Book Review of ‘Working at Other’s homes: The Specifics and Challenges of Paid Domestic Work’ (2018). Revue internationale des études du développement, 246 (2021/2), 264-66. https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-des-etudes-dudeveloppement-2021-2-page-264.htm

2018
Dinkar, Anwita. (2018). “Non-Conventional Methods of Education: For Peace, Development, and Social Transformation” International Journal of Research and Analysis, 5(3), 10-17.

2018
Dinkar, Anwita. (2018). “Corporate Culpability for Human Rights Violations” South Asian Journal of Law and Human Rights, 5(1), 65-78.

2018
Dinkar, Anwita. “Inadequacy of Laws to Prohibit Animal Tests to Manufacture Drugs” International Journal of Legal Sciences & Research, 2(4), 36-45.

2018
Dinkar, Anwita. “Alternatives to Animal Tests Conducted for Manufacturing of Drugs and Need for a Corresponding Legislation” Supremo Amicus, 3(1), 114-123.

2016
Dinkar, Anwita. “Understanding Legal Fictions in a Statute” ILS Abhivyakti Law Journal, 241-244.

TEACHING

• 2024 – 25 (Recruited as a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Sciences Po)

Global Sociological Debates. Undergraduate level. Sciences Po, Reims Campus, France.

Introduction to Sociology, Undergraduate level. Sciences Po, Reims Campus, France.

• 2023-24

Law and Society. Undergraduate level. Sciences Po, Le Havre Campus, France

Qualitative Research Methods. Undergraduate level. Sciences Po, Le Havre Campus, France

• 2021-22
  Introduction to Sociology. Undergraduate level. Sciences Po, Le Havre Campus, France
• 2018-19
  Law and Social Transformation. Master of Laws (LL.M). ILS Law College. Pune, India.
• 2018-19
  Law Making in the Indian Polity & Statutory Interpretation. Master of Laws (LL.M.). ILS Law College. Pune, India. 

Education

Since 2021 
Doctoral candidate 

2019-21
Master in Sociology (Research Track), Sciences Po, Paris

2015-17
Master of Laws (LL.M), Business Law track. University of Pune, India (summa cum laude)

2010-15
Bachelor of Laws (BSL LLB), University of Pune, India (summa cum laude)