
Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil
Associate Professor
- naveenbharathi@iitb.ac.in
Core Faculty
at ADCPS
Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil teaches social policy usually through the lenses of inequality, social polarization, and ageing in developing societies. Vishnu’s research is focused on two areas:
(1) privatization of policymaking
The role of private actors has become integral to policy making processes. Private actors like consultant and philanthropic organizations and their interests are being enmeshed into and become indistinguishable from the state. Vishnu is collaborating with critical management scholars on theoretical frameworks to better explain this transformation to policy making mechanisms, and developing criteria for evaluating its consequences for state capacity and inequalities.
(2) urban policies and ageing societies.
Two trends are colliding across the world (including in India) – demographic ageing and rapid urbanization. The fallout is creating new policy challenges that demand the reshaping urban spaces to protect the interests of older persons. The Age Friendly Cities and Communities (AFCC) movement initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) is a response to this policy problem. Vishnu is involved in research on such global, national and regional policies that co-constitute older citizens, technology, and city spaces. He is collaborating with municipalities across India to foster age-friendly communities.
His research has appeared in Cities, Business and Society, Journal of Social Quality, Critical Discourse Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, and the Journal of Business Ethics. Vishnu is a member of the Socio-Gerontechnology Network.
Research Intersts:
Privatisation of Policymaking, Ageing and Society, Ethics, Policy History
Projects of
Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil
Environmental Justice in Bangalore using Paired Data
Ongoing