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Professor Tim Scrase

Position:

Adjunct Professor
College / Portfolio:

College of Design and Social Context
School / Department:

School of Global, Urban and Social Studies
Email: tim.scrase@rmit.edu.au

Tim Scrase is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT.

He was formerly a Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Australian Catholic University (2012-2015), and for several years prior he was the Director of the ARC Key Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) at the University of Wollongong and has been a regular visiting research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), University of Amsterdam.

He has previously been awarded three Australia Research Council (ARC) grants, and is a past President of the South Asian Studies Association of Australia (SASAA). Over a 30 year career he has published widely on development and social change in India in leading academic journals and edited collections, including five books.

Based on a recent ARC-funded project, he is currently preparing a book manuscript and journal articles on the urban transformation of Darjeeling.

Key Activities

Higher degree research supervision, publishing and grants.

Tim is experienced in PhD supervisions in fields such as: International development; Education and schooling in South Asia; Social Impact Assessment.

Disciplinary fields he has expertise in are: Sociology; Social Anthropology; Educational research.

He is happy to discuss these and other allied areas of research.

Availability

Tim generally works from his home office and is available by email at tim.scrase@rmit.edu.au.

Qualifications

PhD (LaT, 1989); Dip Ed (LaTrobe, 1985); MA (prelim, Sociology) LaTrobe, 1984); BA (FIT, 1982) 

Industry Experience

Other than Tim's extensive experience at various Australian and international universities, he has also been employed with two international development NGOs: the Edmund Rice Centre and Palms Australia.

Publications

Recent publications

  • 2017: Green, Belinda, Timothy J Scrase and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase "Beach Boys do it too: Subculture and commoditised desire in a transnational tourist site in Kerala, South India". Asian Studies Review, Vol. 41 (1), pp. 99-116.
  • 2017: Brown, Trent, Timothy J Scrase and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, "Globalised Dreams, Local Constraints: Migration and Youth Aspirations in an Indian Regional Town". Children's Geographies, Vol. 15 (5), pp. 531-544.
  • 2016: Brown, Trent, Timothy J Scrase and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, "Rural Mobility, Political Assertion and New Class Relations in Urban Darjeeling". Critical Asian Studies, Vol 48 (2), pp. 235-256.
  • 2016: Scrase, Timothy J., Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Andrew Deuchar, "Learning to Lose in Neoliberal India: Analysing Young Men's Experiences of Education in Darjeeling". South Asia Research, Vol 36 (1), pp. 98-114.
  • 2015: Scrase, Timothy J., Mario Rutten, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase & Trent Brown, "Beyond the Metropolis. Regional Globalisation and Town Development in India: An Introduction", South Asia, Vol. 38 (2), pp. 216-229; DOI:10.1080/00856401.2015.1031459.
  • 2015: Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira and Timothy J Scrase, "Darjeeling Re-Made: The Cultural Politics of Charm and Heritage", South Asia, Vol. 38 (2), pp. 246-262; DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2015.1031203.
  • 2012: Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira and Timothy J Scrase, "Cultural Politics in the 'New' India: Social Class, Neoliberal Globalization and the Education Paradox", in Lois Weis and Nadine Dolby (eds) Social Class and Education: Global Perspectives, New York: Routledge, pp. 198-212.
  • 2012: Scrase, Timothy J. "Globalization and Occupational Displacement: Asian Artisans in the Global Economy", in Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (eds) Rethinking Displacement  In the New Global Order: Asia Pacific Perspectives, Aldershot: Ashgate , pp. 115-129.
  • 2012: Hill, Douglas and Timothy J. Scrase, "Neoliberal Development, Port Reform and Displacement: The Case of Kolkata and Haldia, West Bengal, India", in Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Kuntala Lahiri- Dutt (eds) Rethinking Displacement  In the New Global Order: Asia Pacific Perspectives, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 31-51.
  • 2011: Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira and Timothy J Scrase, "Privatisation, Profit and the Public: The Consequences of Neoliberal Reforms on Working Lives" in Amita Baviskar and Raka Ray (eds) Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes, New Delhi: Routledge.
  • 2011: Scrase, Timothy J. and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, "Globalisation, Neoliberalism, and Middle Class Cultural Politics in India" in Henrike Donner (ed) A Way of Life: Being Middle-class in Contemporary India, London: Routledge, pp. 117-138.
  • 2010: Scrase, Timothy J. "Fair Trade in Cyberspace: The Commodification of Poverty and the Marketing of Handicrafts on the Internet" in Emily Potter and Tania Lewis (eds) Ethical Consumption: A critical introduction, London: Routledge: 54-70.

Supervisor Interests

Tim's research interests include:

  1. Globalization and social transformation in South Asia
  2. Urban change in South Asia
  3. Social Inequality and class in Australia and Asia
  4. Darjeeling and other Indian Hill Stations

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