Dr R K Debbarma | Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Dr R K Debbarma

Assistant Professor
Guwahati Campus,
Chairperson, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, School of Social Sciences and Humanities

Qualification

B.A. (St. Anthony's College), M.A. (University of Hyderabad), Ph.D. (University of Hyderabad)

Contact

r.debbarma[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in

r.debbarma@tiss.edu

R K Debbarma is currently the Chairperson for the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies.

He joined the institute in 2013 under the Tata Trust position. He co-developed the MA programme in Peace and Conflict Studies, and coordinated the programme during 2014-16.

Space, place and politics; Political theory; Identity politics in Northeast India

Tribal Politics in Tripura: A spatial analysis, in Ambagudia and Xaxa (eds), “Handbook of Tribal Politics in India”, Sage, 2021.

"Foot soldiers of the Zomia: Writing as Disruption", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 56, Issue 8, 2021.

Indigeneity in Jelle J.P. Wouters and Tanka B Subba (eds),”The Routledge Companion to Northeast India”, Routledge: London and New York, 2022, pp.250-255.

Tribal Politics in Tripura: A spatial analysis, in Ambagudia and Xaxa (eds), “Handbook of Tribal Politics in India”, Sage, 2021. Pp. 501-5012.

"Conflict Resolution in Tripura", India-Seminar, 732, 2020.

"From Pllace Everywhere to Placeless: Space, (Im)mobility and Exclusion", SKWC Journal of Social Sciences, Imphal, 2012.

"Heroes and Histories: The Making of Rival Geographies of Tripura", Occasional Paper Series 34, Nehru Memorial Library and Museum, New Delhi, 2013.

"Celebrating a new New Year in Tripura: Space, place and identity politics", in Yasmin Saikia and Amit Baihya [eds] Northeast India: A place of relations, Cambridge, 2017.

"Where to be Left is no longer dissidence: A reading of Left politics in Tripura", Economic and Political Weekly, May 2017, Vol LII No 21.

"How not to fight discrimination in India: Desire, difference and the Northeast", in Economic and Political Weekly, June 25, 2016, vol LI No. 26 and 27

Agartala as a settler colonial town, in IIAS The Newletter No 77, summer 2017 (July)

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I teach Political Science and related papers to the Bachelors programme in Social Sciences. In the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, I have taught the following papers: Constitution, Law and Human Rights, Introduction to Research and Writing, Research Methods, Conflict Resolution II, and Case studies from Global South, Indigenous Peoples Movement. I have also taught the following papers for Mphil-PhD students: Qualitative Research Methods; Violence and the Everyday.