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Anwita Dinkar
PhD Candidate
Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO)
Research Interest(s): Sociology of law and Justice, Sociology of work, organizations and professions
Discipline(s): Sociology
Research Group(s): Law, Norms and Regulation
Biography
DOCTORAL THESIS
Since 2021:
Thesis in progress: “From Dust to Dignity: Exploring legal consciousness among urban India’s cleaning workers.”
Thesis Director: Jérôme Pélisse
Education
Since 2021
Doctoral candidate
2019-21
Master in Sociology (Research Track), Sciences Po, Paris
2015-17
Master of Laws (LL.M), Business Law track. University of Pune, India (summa cum laude)
2010-15
Bachelor of Laws (BSL LLB), University of Pune, India (summa cum laude)
Thesis topic
From Dust to Dignity: Exploring legal consciousness among urban India’s cleaning workers.
Teaching
2024 – present (Recruited as a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Sciences Po)
Law and Society: understanding interdisciplinarity within theories and practices of socio-legal studies. Second-year undergraduate. 2x24h. Spring semester. Seminar.
Global Sociological Debates. Second-year undergraduate. 2x24h. Fall semester. Tutorial
Introduction to Sociology. First-year undergraduate. 2x24h. Fall semester. Tutorial
Methodology workshop on ‘field study methods.’ About 400 students in attendance; First-year undergraduates. 2h. 24 January 2025
Pre-semester academic methods workshop. 2X12h. Spring semester. 20-22 January, 2026.
2023-24
Law and Society. Undergraduate level. Sciences Po, Le Havre Campus, France
Qualitative Research Methods. Undergraduate level. Sciences Po, Le Havre Campus, France
2021-22
Introduction to Sociology. Undergraduate level. Sciences Po, Le Havre Campus, France
2018-19
Law and Social Transformation. Master of Laws (LL.M). ILS Law College. Pune, India.
2018-19
Law Making in the Indian Polity & Statutory Interpretation. Master of Laws (LL.M.). ILS Law College. Pune, India.
publications
2022
Dinkar, Anwita. (2022). “Overcoming Class Boundaries During Empirical Research with Vulnerable Communities” Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies Blog. Oxford: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. https://frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/class-boundaries/
2021
Dinkar, Anwita. (2021). Book Review of ‘Working at Other’s homes: The Specifics and Challenges of Paid Domestic Work’ (2018). Revue internationale des études du développement, 246 (2021/2), 264-66. https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-des-etudes-dudeveloppement-2021-2-page-264.htm
2018
- Dinkar, Anwita. (2018). “Non-Conventional Methods of Education: For Peace, Development, and Social Transformation” International Journal of Research and Analysis, 5(3), 10-17.
- Dinkar, Anwita. (2018). “Corporate Culpability for Human Rights Violations” South Asian Journal of Law and Human Rights, 5(1), 65-78.
- Dinkar, Anwita. “Inadequacy of Laws to Prohibit Animal Tests to Manufacture Drugs” International Journal of Legal Sciences & Research, 2(4), 36-45.
- Dinkar, Anwita. “Alternatives to Animal Tests Conducted for Manufacturing of Drugs and Need for a Corresponding Legislation” Supremo Amicus, 3(1), 114-123.
2016
Dinkar, Anwita. “Understanding Legal Fictions in a Statute” ILS Abhivyakti Law Journal, 241-244.
COMMUNICATION
The role of legal intermediaries in shaping the legal consciousness of cleaning workers in Nagpur, India. CSO - SCORE workshop, Stockholm, Sweden. 4-5 December 2025.
Invited Discussant at Loic Wacquan’t book discussion of Racial Domination. Sciences Po, Paris, France. 11 June 2025.
Mobilizing rights at work. Law, norms, and regulations research unit. CSO, Sciences Po, Paris, France. 12 December 2024.
Invited discussant of the public lecture by Leda Pérez, Associate professor Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru, titled: So Close
and Yet So Far: Women, Social Reproduction, and Citizenship in Latin America. Université Paris Cité, Paris, France. 22 October
2024.
Organizing rights: Theorizing self-norms of paid domestic workers in India. CSO-IOA early career researcher workshop on theorizing. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. 22-24 May 2024.
Mobilizing the law: a preliminary analysis of the role of unions in shaping the legal consciousness of cleaning workers in Nagpur, India. Doctoral day on the Sociology of Law and Justice. l’Association française de sociologie (AFS). Sciences Po, Paris. 16 May 2024.
Informal Strategies in the Absence of a Specific Legislation: A Self-Norms Analysis of Female Domestic Workers in India. 17th Annual South Asia Legal Studies Workshop. University of Wisconsin Law School. Dec. 1-2 2023.
Everyday legality: An empirical analysis of legal consciousness in India. Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) Workshop. New Delhi, India. Oct. 9, 2023.
Law as justice? Exploring access to justice in India. 8th Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law (OSI) Conference. Osnabrück, Germany. 23 July, 2022
Maid in Maharashtra : Domestic labour relations and position of paid domestic workers in Maharashtra, India. Seminar series on Domestic Work. Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CSO), Paris, France. 14 Dec., 2021