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Senior Lecturer in Sociology,

Sociology Postgraduate Convenor 

Assistant Postgraduate Advisor in South Asian Studies

 

Office Hours

I will be on research leave during 2012, so will not have regular office hours

 

Qualifications

• BA Sociology and Politics - University of Essex (1997)
• MSc by Social Research - University of Edinburgh (1998)
• PhD - University of Edinburgh (2002)

 

Research interests

My principal research interests are as follows:

• Political Sociology
• Sociology of South Asia
• Social Movements
• Sociology of Violence
• Sociology of Identity
  

My research has focused on social and political movements both in South India and Scotland.

My research in India focuses on the socio-political mobilisation of Dalits (ex-Untouchables) and their struggle to achieve equality and deepen Indian democracy. This research is the basis for book: Untouchable Citizens which explores the interplay between Dalit movements and Democratisation in South India. I have also written about Dalit politics, collective violence, identity politics, institutionalisation and the construction and negotiation of social space.

My research in Scotland focuses on the interactive dynamics between police and protestors. My initial focus was on the global protests surrounding the G8 meeting in 2005 and the policing of those protests, but this is an ongoing project in collaboration with Michael Rosie. An interim report on our findings and details of publications can be found here: http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk/current_research/g8_research . Since then we have looked at the challenges to public order policing in the UK, especially since the G20 in 2009. We have written on police-protest dynamics; media coverage of protest and policing; experiments in liaison or dialogue policing and the 2010 student protests.

 

Teaching Interests

Much of my teaching arises out of my own research, and I currently teach on violence, social and political movements and caste politics and change in India. My teaching interests extend beyond my research, however, and have included examinations of culture and identity in Britain, South Asian nationalism, and the gendered nature of 'Development' processes.

 

Supervision    

I have experience of supervising a range of topics at postgraduate level. Recent or ongoing supervisions include:

• The status of qualitative methodologies 
• The interplay between identity and nationalism in South Asia
• The gender biases of international development
• Ethical and Political Consumerism
• Sociological investigations of Camphill
• Surveillance and counter-surveillance in protest-police encounters
• Political Participation & the Student Protests
• Life-Histories of Peace and Green Activists
• Muslims in Scotland 

Completed PhDs:

Suryakant Waghmore: Dalit Politics in Maharashtra (2010); Salla Sariola: Sex Workers in Chennai (2007)

 

Publications

 

In 2010 I was interviewed by Frontline about my research on Dalit politics in Tamil Nadu. Read the interview here: http://www.flonnet.com/fl2705/stories/20100312270511700.htm 

 

Books and Special Issues:

Gorringe, H 2005. Untouchable Citizens: The Dalit Panthers and Democratisation in Tamilnadu, New Delhi, Sage (0-7619-3323-9).

Gorringe, H, Jeffery, R and Sariola, S (eds) 2009. Journal of South Asian Development: Special Issue on 'Inequality in India'. See our introduction: ‘Ethnographic Insights into Enduring Inequalities’, Vol. 4(1): pp1-6

 

Journal Articles (most recent first):

Rosie, M and Gorringe, H 2011. ‘It’s Grim down South: A Scottish Take on the ‘English Riots’, Scottish Affairs 77(Autumn): pp79-89

Gorringe, H and Rosie, M 2011. ‘King Mob: Perceptions, Prescriptions and Presumptions about the Policing of England's Riots’, Sociological Research Online (Rapid Response) 16(4)17

Hugo Gorringe, Michael Rosie, David Waddington & Margarita Kominou 2011. ‘Facilitating ineffective protest? The policing of the 2009 Edinburgh NATO protests’, Policing and Society 21(4)

Stott, C; Gorringe, H & Rosie, M 2010. ‘HMIC Goes to Millbank: Public Order Policing Following Student Disorder’, Police Professional 232, November 25.

Rafanell, I & Gorringe, H 2010: ‘Consenting to Domination? Theorising Power, Agency and Embodiment with reference to Caste’, Sociological Review 58(4): pp604-622

Gorringe, H 2010: ‘Resounding Rhetoric, Retreating rebels: The use and Impact of Militant Speeches in Tamil Dalit Movements’. Contemporary South Asia 18(3): pp281-292. Special issue on ‘Rhetorics of Change’. 

Gorringe, H 2010: ‘Beyond “Dull and Sterile Routines”? Dalits Organizing for Social Change in Tamil Nadu’, Cultural Dynamics 22(2): pp1-15.

Gorringe, H & Rosie, M 2010: ‘The “Scottish” Approach? The discursive construction of a national police force’, The Sociological Review 58 (1): pp65-83

Rosie, M & Gorringe, H 2009: ‘What a difference a death makes’, Sociological Research Online 14(5)

Rosie, M & Gorringe, H 2009. '"The Anarchists World Cup": respectable protest and media panics', Social Movement Studies 8(1): pp35-53

Gorringe, H 2008. 'The Caste of the Nation: Untouchability and Citizenship in South India', Contributions to Indian Sociology 42(1): pp123-49

Gorringe, H & Rosie, M 2008. 'Its a long way to Auchterarder! Negotiated Management and Mismanagement in the Policing of G8 Protests', British Journal of Sociology 59(2): pp187-205:

Gorringe, H & Rosie, M 2008. 'The Polis of Global Protest: Policing Protest at the G8 in Scotland', Current Sociology 56(5)

Gorringe, H & Rafanell, I 2007. 'The Embodiment of Caste'. Sociology 41(1): pp97-114

Gorringe, H 2007. 'Taming the Dalit Panthers? Dalit Politics in Tamilnadu'. Journal of South Asian Development 2(1): pp51-73

Gorringe, H & Rosie, M 2006. 'Pants to Poverty? Making Poverty History, Edinburgh 2005'. Sociological Research Online , 11 (1): Short-listed for the Sage prize for Innovation/Excellence

Gorringe, H 2006. 'Banal Violence? The everyday Underpinnings of Collective Violence'. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 13(2): pp237-60.

Gorringe, H 2006. 'Which is Violence? Reflections on Violence and Social Movement Activity', Social Movement Studies 5(2): pp117-136.

Gorringe, H 2005. 'You Build Your House, we'll build ours: The Attractions and Pitfalls of Identity Politics'. Social Identities, 11(6): pp653-672 .

 

Book Chapters:

Gorringe, H 2010: ‘The new Caste Headmen? Dalit Movement Leadership in Tamil Nadu’, in P. Price & A. E. Ruud (eds) Power and Influence in India: Bosses, Lords and Captains. London: Routledge: pp119-143. (978-0-415-58595-8).

Gorringe, H 2010: ‘Shifting the “grindstone of caste”? Decreasing Dependency among Dalit labourers in Tamil Nadu’, pp248-266 in Barbara Harriss-White and Judith Heyer (eds) The Comparative Political Economy of Development: Africa and South Asia. London, Routledge.

Gorringe, H 2009. 'Becoming a Dalit Panther', in D. Gellner (ed) Ethnic Activism & Civil Society in South Asia. New Delhi: Sage: pp145-174

Gorringe, H 2006. 'Establishing Territory' in De Neve, G and Donner, H (eds): The Meaning of the Local: Politics of Place in Urban India, London, UCL Press.

 

PhD in South Asian Studies; PhD in Sociology