Pushpesh Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hyderabad. His present academic concerns include queer movements and queer pedagogy, Marxism and Queer Theory, alternative families, and kinship. He was invited by South Asia Centre, Syracuse University to share his views on ‘Queering Indian Sociology’ in 2017. He has been a visiting fellow at the Department of Anthropology at LSE, London, Dept. of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics and the Centre for Studies of Social System, JNU, Delhi. He has published extensively in leading national and international journals on gender, sexuality, and pedagogical issues. He received M.N. Srinivas Memorial Prize for Young Sociologists in 2007 for his paper ‘Gender and Procreative Ideology among the Kolams of Maharashtra’ (Contributions to Indian Sociology). He is a pro-feminist thinker and has written about ‘men and feminism’ in the EPW special volume on Men and Feminism in India in 2015. His forthcoming edited volume is called Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in Contemporary India (Routledge).
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