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 Director, SOAS South Asia Institute Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre
- 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 |
| 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) |
| Ananyo Mukherjee | Political Economy of ‘Living Labour’: Probing Petty Commodity Production as a space of Social Reproduction in India’s Post-colonial Capitalism |
| Tasnia Nuran | Dreams and Discontent: Understanding Youth Civil Service Aspirations in Bangladesh |
| Neringa Tumėnaitė | Do EU-funded Youth initiatives advance Development and Climate justice? Participatory Research accounts from Africa, the South Mediterranean and Eastern Europe on Imaginaries, Resistance and Compliance in the pursuit of Decolonial epistemologies and actio |
| Dr Vidya Venkat | India’s Democratic Revolution: The Right to Information and the Anti-Corruption Discourse |
Publications
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