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Staff Menu Staff A-Z By Role By Research Centre or Group By Keywords Keywords Search SEARCH using keywords/tags or full text search.	Dr Thomas Birtchnell Sociology: Research Associate Degree: BA (Sydney) PhD (Sydney) Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Mobilities.Lab Current Teaching FASS 515: Research Projects in Practice (2010) MA/PhD FASS 510: Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences (2011) MA/PhD FASS 515/SOCL919: Research Projects in Practice (2012) MA/PhD Research Interests Geographies of expertise, elites, social inequality, cosmopolitanism, mobilities, social sustainability, innovation, India and South Asia, Hinduism, practice theory and mobile methods. Background Currently I am a Research Associate on the Technologies and Travel project at Lancaster University funded by the ESRC. This specific project is developed jointly with UWE and Newcastle where related research is being conducted. Distinguished Professor John Urry is the Principal Investigator. I am also an associate member of the Lancaster University India Centre. Selected Publications 2012 "Hinduism and Economics" in The SAGE Handbook of Hinduism Will Sweetman, Geoff Oddie, Greg Bailey and Aditya Malik (eds): Forthcoming. 2012 Birtchnell, Thomas "Elites, Elements and Events: Practice Theory and Scale" Journal of Transport Geography In Press. 2012 Birtchnell, Thomas "The Cultures of Alternative Mobilities" Qualitative Research, 12(1): 97-98. 2011 Birtchnell, Thomas "Jugaad as Systemic Risk and Disruptive Innovation in India" Contemporary South Asia 19(4): 357-372. 2011 Birtchnell, Thomas and Urry, John "Small Technologies and Big Systems "Technologies and Travel Project Report WP3, Lancaster University. 2011 Hubers, Christa, Lyons, Glenn and Birtchnell, Thomas "The Unusual Suspects" Technologies and Travel Project Report WP1, UWE. 2011 Birtchnell, Thomas "Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market" C ontemporary Sociology 40(1): 103. 2011 Birtchnell, Thomas and Büscher, Monika "Stranded: An Eruption of Disruption" Mobilities 6(1): 1-9. 2009 Birtchnell, Thomas "From 'Hindolence' to 'Spirinomics': Discourse, Practice and the Myth of Indian Enterprise" South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 32(2): 248-268 . 2006 Devinney, Timothy M., Auger, Patrice, Eckhardt, Giana, and Birtchnell, Thomas "The Other CSR" Stanford Social Innovation Review Fall Awards 2010 Recipient of the Dr Cornelis Lely Prize on Mobility History and Policy prize at the T2M conference New Delhi for 'Jugaad as Risk; Jugaad as 'Indovation' View all research activities, ePrints, news and events associated with Thomas Birtchnell. «Back	Contact Details Tel: +44 (0)1524 594184 Room: Bowland North, B08 My Projects Technologies and Travel All my projects» My Events CeMoRe Annual Research Day 2012 All my events» View Staff Profiles Find staff personal pages in Sociology and other Faculty departments: Sociology Staff All Faculty Staff Search Faculty by Keyword
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