Srivatsan works in the Critical Development Studies, Health and Healthcare Systems, and Public Domain and Outreach Initiatives. He is finishing work on a Development Reader that aims to provide a framework to critically examine the current practices in development policy. He is also part of a collaborative book writing project between Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, and Anveshi rethinking pressing issues in the teaching and practice of medicine in India today. His research interests include critical development studies, visual culture and media studies. Srivatsan helps with the Different Tales storybook sales programme and also helps plan and implement library upgrade projects.
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Srivatsan organised two Photography Workshops, Photography and Society, under the aegis of Anveshi, and in collaboration with CIEFL and University of Hyderabad in 1990, and another, Workshop on Visual Images in 1996-1997, at Anveshi. He has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled ”Seva, Amelioration, Welfare: The Nationalist Passion to Develop the Tribal”, at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (in affiliation with Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University), Hyderabad, 2008.
Select Publications:
- History of Development Thought: a critical anthology - edited volume.- New Delhi: Routledge (forthcoming)
- Book review of Kancha Ilaiah, Post- Hindu India: a discourse on Dalit- Bahujan, Socio spiritual and scientific revolution.- New Delhi: Sage, 2009,xvi, 302pg(paperback),-- Contributions to Indian Sociology,45, 2(2011) 290- 293 pg.
- 'Aarogyasri Healthcare Model: Advantage Private Sector'/ co-authored with Rajan Shukla, Veena Shatrugna-- Economic & Political Weekly, vol xlvi No. 49, Dec.3, 2011.
- Towards a critical medical practice: reflections on the dilemmas of medical culture today/ co-edited with Anand Zachariah and Susie Tharu.- Hyderabad: Orient blackswan, 2010.
- 'Writing Degree Zero" (Book review of Ravi Kumar, Venomous Touch: Notes on Caste, Culture and Politics (Calcutta: Samya, 2009))-- Economic and Political Weekly, January 2010.
- 'From Ambedkar to Thakkar and Beyond: Towards a Genealogy of Our Activisms' --Economic and Political Weekly, September 2008.
- 'Concept of "Seva" and the "Sevak" in the Freedom Movement.'--Economic and Political Weekly, February, 2006.
- ‘Native Noses and Nationalist Zoos: Debates in Colonial and Early Nationalist Anthropology of Castes and Tribes’.--Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 40 No, 19, 2005. pp 1986-1998.
- Conditions of Visibility: Writings on Photography in Contemporary India. Calcutta: Stree ( Bhatkal & Sen), 2000.
- ‘The Woman in the Advertisement: Historical explorations through a type.’ In Richard Fardon, Wim van Binsbergen & Rijk van Dijk, Eds., Modernity on a Shoestring: Dimensions of Globalization, Consumption and Development in Africa and Beyond. Leiden & London: EIDOS, Africa Studiecentrum Leiden & Centre of African Studies London, 1999. pp. 269-280.
- '"Rowdysheeters": An Essay in Subalternity and Politics.’ In Subaltern Studies, IX: Writings on South Asian History and Society. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996. Co-author.
- ‘Imaging Truth and Desire: Photography and the Visual Field in India.’ In Tejaswini Niranjana, P. Sudhir & Vivek Dhareshwar, Eds., Interrogating Modernity. Calcutta: Seagull, 1993. pp 155-198.
- 'Cartier-Bresson and the Birth of Modern India.’--Journal of Arts and Ideas. Numbers 25-26. December 1993. pp 37-53.
- ‘Looking at Film Hoardings: Labour, Gender, Subjectivity and Everyday Life in India.’ --Public Culture. Vol 4, Number 1. Fall, 1991. pp 1-23.
- ‘Photography and Society: Icon Building in Action.’--Economic and Political Weekly. Vol 26, No 11-12 Annual Number 1991. pp 771-788.
- ‘Trajectory of Reason in the Historiography of the Sciences.’ --Economic and Political Weekly. Vol 25, No 4. Jan 27, 1990. pp 205-208.