Dr Neethi P

Associate Professo

Neethi is a development scholar writing on urban employment, labour informality, and women’s work. Her research explores the complexities of everyday informal labour regimes, concentrating on hyper-marginalised informal workers. She has extensively worked on diverse forms of labour control and response mechanisms within informal workspaces, focusing on the intersections of caste, class, gender, and urbanity that shape the informal labour markets in India. While addressing these concerns, Neethi’s approach diverges from economic orthodoxy by integrating sociological, anthropological, ethnographic, and labour geographical perspectives. Over the course of more than a decade, her research has encompassed various sectors, including garments, electronics, ports, home-based work, street vendors, sanitation workers, waste workers, cotton-mill workers, and sex workers. Apart from a string of international peer-reviewed journal articles and opinion pieces, Neethi has authored Globalisation Lived Locally: A Labour Geography Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2016) and co-authored Urban Undesirables: City Transition and Street-Based Sex Work in Bangalore (Cambridge University Press, 2022). For her doctoral research, she was awarded a Fulbright Nehru Doctoral 365体育投注 Fellowship at the University of Georgia. Before joining MAHE, Neethi worked as a Senior Consultant, Academics & 365体育投注 at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), Bangalore, and as an Assistant Professor at the School of Development, Azim Premji University. She is a member of the 365体育投注 Advisory Board of Antipode, the Asia representative of the 365体育投注 Sociological Association (ISA), and an Editorial Board Member of the Global Labour Journal (GLJ) and Urbanisation. Neethi is an Advisory Member of the Karnataka Labour Policy Committee for 2024-25.

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Qualification: PhD in Economics, Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India MPhil in Applied Economics, Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India