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.ac.in

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.