Research interests
Informality, Welfare, Feminist Ethnographies, Spatial Development focusing on South Asia and Southeast Asia
Deepanshu Mohan
Deepanshu Mohan is Dean and Professor of Economics at, IDEAS, Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Director, Centre for New Economics Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University. He is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and has previously been an Academic Research Fellow (2024) at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Oxford.
He is an Honorary Research Fellow with Birkbeck College, University of London and has previously held visiting professorships, fellowships, and honorary affiliations at the University of Ottawa (Canada), Carleton University (Canada), Stellenbosch University (South Africa), FGV (Brazil), to name a few.
His latest books include: The Practice of Visual Ethnography: Examining Identity and Lived Experiences of Marginalised Communities (2026); Identity, Dispossession and Resilience of Subaltern Communities In Kashmir (2025); Crisis Narratives: Pan India Stories of Informal Workers during Covid-19 (2023); and Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India: A Feminist Ethnography (2024), have been all been published with Palgrave MacMillan (Springer Nature) and Routledge, Taylor and Francis (London and New York), respectively. His earlier book, Strongmen Saviours: A Political Economy of Populism in India, Turkey, Russia and Brazil was published in 2023 by Routledge (London and New York). More details on his academic profile, publications and research can be accessed from here