Professor Professor Subrata K. Mitra
B.A (Utkal, Orissa), MA (Delhi), MPhil (JNU), MA and PhD (Rochester)
Overview
Department of Development Studies
Professorial Research Associate
- Name:
- Professor Professor Subrata K. Mitra
- Email address:
- sm132@soas.ac.uk
- Website:
- http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/abt/SAPOL/mitarbeiter/skmitra.html
Biography
Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science and Board Member and former Director of the South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Comparative Politics, Rational Choice, Methods, Citizenship, Re-use and South Asian Area Studies are his main interests. His books include Citizenship and the Flow of Ideas: Structure, Agency and Power (Delhi: Samskriti; 2012), (co-editor) Reuse: The Art and Politics of Integration and Anxiety (Delhi: Sage; 2012), Politics in India: Structure, Process, Policy (London: Routledge; 2011), When Rebels become Stakeholders (Delhi: Sage; 2009). In addition, he has published articles in the Annual Review of Political Science, Asian Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Contemporary South Asia, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Democratization, Economic and Political Weekly, India Review, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Journal of Development Politics, International Social Science Journal, International Political Science Review, Third World Quarterly and World Politics. Professor Mitra edits the Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies series and is the former spokesperson for Governance and Administration of the Excellence Cluster: Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows at the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg, supported by the German Research Council (DFG)
Research
Subrata K. Mitra was trained in rational choice, games theory, survey research, econometrics and comparative politics at the University of Rochester (New York, USA).
His first major research project on return to India took him to electoral politics at the village level and subsequently to the role of local elites in power, protest and development. His current research interests are governance, citizenship, democratization and comparative politics.
In recent years he has increasingly been drawn towards cultural flow, re-use, memory and hybridity – not as a backdrop to political analysis, but as a part of the argument.
Subrata K. Mitra is a visiting fellow at the Center for the Studies of Developing Societies (CSDS, New Delhi, India), a member of the Graduate School Ca’ Foscari (University of Venice, Italy) and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris, France); and chairman of South Asia Democratic Forum, Brussels, Belgium.
