SOAS University of London

Department of Development Studies

Subir Sinha

BA (Delhi); MA, PhD (Northwestern)
  • Overview
  • Teaching
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  • Expertise
  • Publications

Overview

Subir Sinha
Department of Development Studies

Senior Lecturer in Institutions and Development

SOAS Food Studies Centre

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies

Member

SOAS South Asia Institute

Academic Staff, SOAS South Asia Institute

Agrarian Change and Development

Research Cluster Member

Labour, Movements and Development

Research Cluster Member

Name:
Dr Subir Sinha
Email address:
Telephone:
+44(0) 20 7898 4495
Address:
SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Building:
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office No:
287
Office Hours:
Mon. 3 - 5
On Sabbatical:
Term 2 & 3 2016/17

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

Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
PhD Students supervised
  • Amrita Lamba, Interrogating Inclusive Natural Resources Governance: Comparing Brazil and South Africa
  • Aruna Pandey, Institutional Models to Resolve Conflicts over Natural Resource Governance: Role of Community Enterprises and Solidarity Economy
  • Guanchen Lai , Speaking from the village: modes of writing about the village in contemporary Hindi fiction
  • Loreley Hahn-Herrera,
  • 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)
  • Nina Kaysser, (working title): Economic growth and Hindu-Muslim violence
  • Sruthi Herbert, Citizenship at the intersections: Caste, Gender, and Class in India

Research

Institutions; international institutions; social movements; sustainable development; NGOs; South Asian Politics; development interventions.

Expertise

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Available for
  • TV
  • Radio
  • Press
  • Briefings
  • Special Study Programmes
  • Short Term Consultancy
  • Long Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
  • South Asia
Country Expertise
  • India
Languages
  • Hindi

Publications

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Book Chapters

Sinha, Subir (2016) 'Structures and Subjectives.' In: Chandra, U. and Taghioff, D., (eds.), Staking Claims: The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 225-234. (Forthcoming)

Sinha, Subir (2015) 'On the Edge of Civil Society in Contemporary India.' In: Gunvald Nilsen , Alf and Roy, Srila, (eds.), New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 225-254.

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. Hoboken, NJ: Taylor&Francis, pp. 189-256.

Sinha, Subir (2005) 'Neo-liberalism & Civil Society: Project & Possibilities.' In: UNSPECIFIED London: Pluto Press, 163 - 169.

Sinha, Subir (2004) 'Development Counternarratives: Taking Social Movements Seriously.' In: UNSPECIFIED Oxford: Oxford 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 (2016) 'Histories of Power’ and the ‘Universalisation of Capital’ in India: Between and Beyond Marxism and Postcolonial Theory.' Critical Sociology.

Sinha, Subir and Varma, Rashmi (2015) 'Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: Whats Left of the Debate?' Critical Sociology.

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.

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