Dr Subir Sinha
BA (Delhi); MA, PhD (Northwestern)
Overview
Department of Development Studies
Senior Lecturer in Institutions and Development
Centre of South Asian Studies
Member, Centre of South Asian Studies
Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies
Member
SOAS Food Studies Centre
Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre
Labour, Movements and Development
Research Cluster Member
Agrarian Change and Development
Research Cluster Member
- Name:
- Dr Subir Sinha
- Email address:
- ss61@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4495
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 287
- Office Hours:
- Wednesday 11-1
- On Sabbatical:
- Terms 2 and 3 2012/2013
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.Teaching
Courses Taught
- Civil society, social movements and the development process
- Social Movements, Civil Society and Development (MSc Research for International Development)
- Themes in contemporary development: civil society & social movements
- Theory, policy and practice of development
PhD Students supervised
- Aruna Pandey, Institutional Models to Resolve Conflicts over Natural Resource Governance: Role of Community Enterprises and Solidarity Economy
- Musa Mckee, ‘Just Add Water’ - The Alchemy of Authoritarian Rule in Large-Scale Agricultural and Residential Developments in Egyptian Deserts during the Mubarak Era. (working title)
- Umut Onder, Possibilities and limits of green economic models under the prevailing global economic order: A critical analysis of commodification and/or financialisation of the environment from the perspective of political economy of the environment.
Research
Institutions; international institutions; social movements; sustainable development; NGOs; South Asian Politics; development interventions.Expertise
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Available for
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- TV
- Special Study Programmes
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
- South Asia
Country Expertise
- India
Languages
- Hindi
Publications
Book Chapters
Sinha, Subir and Baviskar, A. and Philip, K. (2006) 'Rethinking Indian Environmentalism. Industrial Pollution in Delhi and Fisheries in Kerala.' In: Bauer, J., (ed.), Forging Environmentalism. Justice, Livelihood, and Contested Environments. M. E. Sharpe, pp. 189-256.
Sinha, Subir (2005) 'Neo-liberalism & Civil Society: Project & Possibilities.' In: UNSPECIFIED Pluto Press, 163 - 169.
Sinha, Subir (2004) 'Development Counternarratives: Taking Social Movements Seriously.' In: UNSPECIFIED Oxford / Stanford University Press, 286 - 311.
Sinha, Subir (2003) 'Breaking the Waves. Reading World Bank and Social Movement Documents on the Global Fisheries.' In: Kumar, A., (ed.), World Bank Literature. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 111-127.
Sinha, Subir (2003) 'Development Counter-Narratives: Taking Social Movements Seriously.' In: Sivaramakrishnan, K. and Agrawal, A., (eds.), Regional Modernities. Oxford University Press, pp. 286-312.
Articles
Sinha, Subir and Baumann, P. (2001) 'Linking Development with Democratic Processes in India: Political Capital and Sustainable Livelihoods Analysis.' Natural Resource Perspectives, Overseas Development Institute, 68 . pp. 2-5.
Sinha, Subir (2000) 'New Traditionalist Discourse of Indian Environmentalism.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 24; 3 . pp. 169-204.
Sinha, Subir (2000) 'The other agrarian transition? Structures, institutions and agency in sustainable rural development.' Journal of Peasant Studies, 26 no2 . pp. 65-99.
Other
Sinha, Subir (2000) 'Panchayati Raj Institutions and Natural Resource Management.' In: Overseas Development Institute. London.
