Ajay Khandelwal (University of Essex)

submitted: Mon, 1 Sep 97 11:44:50 UT

Ajay Khandelwal
PhD candidate
Dept. of Sociology
University of Essex
UK

Mailing Address:
Flat 1
50 Duncombe Hill
London SE23 1QB
ENGLAND

phone: 0181-690-4352
email:  khandelwal@msn.com

Description of work:

Research Interests:
I am interested in how transgenerational familial influences shape life
paths. I have conducted fifty life story interviews in Jaipur City, India. 
In each family I have conducted several interviews.  My work uses insights
from family systems therapy to see the family as an interlocking
socio-emotional system of relationships.  I have studies how 'family
scripts' exert influence on the occupational and educational trajectories
of each generation.  More broadly I have linked my analysis to an
understanding of how various types of capital are transmitted through the
family system. 

Recent papers and articles:

'Foreword' for exhibition by Artist Anish Ahluwahlia at the Nehru Centre, 
London 1997

'In conversation with artist Shaheen Meerali' in Hooper-Greenhill (ed.) 
Cultural Diversity and Musuem Practice Leicester University Press 1997

'Women, Family and Transgenerational Influences in Shaping Life Paths in
Jaipur City, India.' in Mercedes Vilanova (ed.) Historia, Anthropologia, y
Fuentes Orales Barcelona (forthcoming in Spanish). 

I am also on the editoral board of the new inter disciplinary and
international series Memory and Narrative (Routledge Press) ; first issue
on 'Genre and Life Stories.' New Ideas/ proposals/ papers welcome.