Selected Academic Publications

Monographs

• Sutoris, P., & Pradhan, U. Reimagining Development: Bold Directions towards a Thriving World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025.

• Sutoris, P. Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022.

• Sutoris, P. Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Single-authored Research Papers & Book Chapters

• The Promise of Politics: Place-based Pathways to Agonism among Environmental Activists in India and South Africa, Anthropological Quarterly 98:3 (2025), 537-568.

• Design, Education and the Moulding of Different Futures in the Anthropocene. In: Design Beyond the Human: Transdisciplinary Conversations About the Planet. Caccavale, E. and Hush, G., eds. London: Bloomsbury, 2026.

• The Visual Image and Imagination of Alternative Futures. In: Education through the Language Arts: Interdisciplinary and Creative Approaches to Fostering Ecoliteracy. McGuinn, N. and Naylor, A., eds. London: Routledge, 2024.

• Slowing Down the Ethnographic Gaze through Observational Videomaking. In: The Creative Ethnographer’s Notebook: Exercises for Writing, Visualizing, Sounding and Performing Data. Jacobsen, K. and Cahnmann-Taylor, M., eds. New York: Routledge, 2024.

• Sustaining a social movement through infrastructural followup: activist pedagogies and prefigurative politics in Narmada Bachao Andolan’s schools for life (jeevanshalas), Social Movement Studies 21:1 (2024), 57-77.

• Pandemic Response, Cultural Anthropology, and "The Myth of the Caring Society. In: Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences. Sutoris, P., Mendes Borges, A., Murphy, S., and Nehushtan, Y., eds. London: Routledge, 2022.

• Slow violence, depoliticisation and hope: Cultural landscapes of schooling in Wentworth, South Africa, Ethnography 27:1 (2022), 102-120.

• Environmental Futures through Children’s Eyes: Slow Observational Participatory Videomaking and Multi-Sited Ethnography, Visual Anthropology Review 37:2 (2021), 310-32.

• Politicising ESE in postcolonial settings: the power of historical responsibility, action and ethnography, Environmental Education Research 25:4 (2019), 601-12.

• Ethically scaling up interventions in educational development: a case for collaborative multi-sited ethnographic research, Comparative Education 54:3 (2018), 390-420.

• Elitism and its challengers: Educational development ideology in postcolonial India through the prism of film, 1950–1970, International Journal of Educational Development 60:1 (2018), 1-9.

Co-authored Research Papers & Book Chapters

• von Hellermann, P., Müller, T., & Sutoris, P. Towards a Regenerative Anthropology: Reflections on our Discipline’s Role in Navigating Poly-crisis and Transformation. Social Anthropology /Anthropologie Sociale 34:1 (2026).

• Sutoris, P., & Murphy, S. The Role of Social Sciences and Humanities at a Time of Global Crisis. In: Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences. Sutoris, P., Mendes Borges, A., Murphy, S., and Nehushtan, Y., eds. London: Routledge, 2022.

• Myers, K., Sriprakash, A., & Sutoris, P. Toward a “New Humanism”? Time and Emotion in UNESCO’s Science of World-Making, 1947-1951, Journal of World History 32:4 (2021), p. 685-715.

• Naveed, A., & Sutoris, P. Poverty and Education in South Asia. In Sarangapani, P., Pappu R. (eds.) Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia. Springer (2020).

• Sriprakash, A., Sutoris, P., & Myers, K. The Science of Childhood and the Pedagogy of the State: Postcolonial Development in India, 1950s, Journal Of Historical Sociology 32:3 (2019), 345-59.

Edited Books

• Sutoris, P., Mendes Borges, A., Murphy, S., & Nehushtan, Y. Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences. London: Routledge, 2022.