Department of Development Studies
Dr Subir Sinha
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Key information
- Roles
- Department of Development Studies Reader in the Theory and Politics of Development SOAS South Asia Institute Director, SOAS South Asia Institute Food Studies Centre Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre Research Cluster Member Research Cluster Member Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Member
- Department
- Department of Development Studies
- Qualifications
- BA (Delhi); MA, PhD (Northwestern)
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office
- 287
- Email address
- ss61@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone number
- +44(0) 20 7898 4495
Biography
He studied History at the University of Delhi (BA) and Political Science at Northwestern University (MS, PhD), and has taught at Northwestern University and the University of Vermont. His research interests are institutional change, sustainable development, social movements, state-society relations in development, and South Asian politics, with a current focus on decentralised development in India, early postcolonial planning, and on the global fishworkers' movement.
Research interests
Institutions; international institutions; social movements; sustainable development; NGOs; South Asian Politics; development interventions.
PhD Supervision
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Abhishek Bhosale | Land For Emancipation: Development with Dignity and Dalit Land Struggle in India |
| Philip Hadley | |
| Dr Sruthi Herbert | |
| Hanee Kang | Subtle variations between postcoloniality and post-coloniality in South Korean aid: transforming and transmitting national development experiences for global development (the case study of Saemaul Undong ODA, Official Development Assistance) |
| Guanchen Lai | Speaking from the village: modes of writing about the village in contemporary Hindi fiction |
| Mr Manish Maskara | Identity of Bihari migrant labour in India's cities |
| Ananyo Mukherjee | Political Economy of ‘Living Labour’: Probing Petty Commodity Production as a space of Social Reproduction in India’s Post-colonial Capitalism |
| Ms Aruna Pandey | Institutional Models to Resolve Conflicts over Natural Resource Governance: Role of Community Enterprises and Solidarity Economy |
| Mr Hashim Rashid | The Agrarian Question in West Punjab since 1885: The Politics of the Formation of a New Peasantry |
| Christian Sowa | The Accommodation of Migrants in Berlin: Exploring the City and Urban Transformations (Working Title) |
| Dr Vidya Venkat | India’s Democratic Revolution: The Right to Information and the Anti-Corruption Discourse |
Publications
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