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The Use of Visual Storyboards to Study Vulnerability in India: a Methodological and Pedagogical Tool

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Venue: Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street

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This public talk shall exhibit insights from different thematic layers of field research undertaken as ethnographic case studies across India, by the Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES') initiative: Visual Storyboards. The talk brings together the Director of CNES, Deepanshu Mohan, and the Photographer and Field Research, Jignesh Mistry, who leads the Visual Storyboards initiatives.

Visual Storyboards, as a methodological and pedagogical experiment, is conceptually aimed at designing audio-visual models of documentation in social science studies and ethnographic research, documenting lives-livelihoods of marginalized, vulnerable populations.


This initiative's research work so far has spatially concentrated its focus across different urban and rural spaces in India, studying intersecting thematic areas of interdisciplinary research scholarship encompassing fields of development studies; migration and mobility studies; social psychology; political sociology of work; development economics, and public law and development.

More details on the stories completed by Visual Storyboards can be accessed from its website here and video essays from here. The venue at the public talk will also display a few photographic prints from the team's curated selection (accessible from here). 

This event is free and open to all.

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Speakers
  • Deepanshu Mohan -

    Deepanshu Mohan is a Professor of Economics and Director at the Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES), Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India. He is a Visiting Professor of Economics at the School of International Development and Global Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa (Canada), and a Visiting Professor to the Department of Economics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is an Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. His most recent book: Strongmen Saviours: A Political Economy of Populism in India, Turkey, Russia and Brazil was published by Routledge London and New York in September 2022.

  • Jignesh Mistry -

    Jignesh Mistry is a Photographer and a Field Researcher, currently leading the Visual Storyboard Team at the Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES), Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P Jindal Global University, India. Jignesh also conducts photography workshops for students enrolled in academic institutions. He has conducted workshops for institutions like the Department of Communication and Journalism, Ranade Institute, Pune, Jindal Global Business School, Jindal School of Banking and Finance, Centre for Civil Society (CCS), Delhi to name a few.