Tuesday, March 12, 2024

CSH Talk on Channeling Compassion towards Change: Elite volunteerism, corporate philanthropy and education reform in urban India | 8 April; by V. Subramanian


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The Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) is pleased to invite you to the CSH Seminar with:

(Jindal School of Government & Public Policy, Jindal University)

Channeling Compassion Towards Change:

Elite Volunteerism, Corporate Philanthropy and Education Reform in Urban India

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Discussant: Gayatri NAIR (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi)

MONDAY, 8 APRIL 2024
From 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
At
Centre de Sciences Humaines
IFI-CSH conference room (ground floor)
2 Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi - 110011

To register: Please fill the Registration form

We request you to pre-register before Monday, 8 April, 2:00 p.m. IST for both online & offline registration.

To attend at the venue: Please note that the room capacity is limited. Seats will be reserved on a first-come first-served basis. Kindly carry an ID proof to be granted access to the venue.


Abstract: This article explores how young elite urban professionals and fresh graduates in Mumbai and Delhi are fostering diverse aspirations of service, entrepreneurship and charting new professional mobilities through volunteering opportunities at a well-known corporate-supported non-governmental organisation (NGO), the Teach for India (TFI) program. Mostly with commerce, engineering, and management educational backgrounds, the TFI intervention operates as a nodal site for these elite youth to not just serve underprivileged children through 'acts of compassion' but also channel their experiences to understand the education system and reinvigorate it through corporate management values of enterprise and performance. Through examining the trajectories of these individuals, I foreground the nascent terrain of technocratic expertise being shaped through an interlinked collective of corporate NGOs that have become prominent in advising the Delhi state government to improve public education through discourses of enterprise and performance.

Speaker: Vidya Subramanian is an Associate Professor at the Jindal School Of Government and Public Policy. She is a sociologist who works on entrepreneurship, education, and governance. Her recent research work examines the trajectories of young elite professionals as they shift from conventional pathways into the development sector.


For more info contact:

joel[dot]cabalion[at]csh-delhi[dot]com

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Centre de Sciences Humaines

2, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi - 110011

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