Department of Development Studies

Senior Lecturer in Institutions and Development

SOAS Food Studies Centre

Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

SOAS South Asia Institute

Academic Staff, SOAS South Asia Institute

Agrarian Change and Development

Research Cluster Member

Labour, Movements and Development

Research Cluster Member

Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies

Member

Name:

Dr Subir Sinha

Email address:

ss61@soas.ac.uk

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

Academic Support Hours:

Mondays 11am - 1pm

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.

Programmes Convened

• MSc Development Studies (2018)
• MSc Development Studies (2019)
• MSc Development Studies (2020)
• MSc Development Studies (2021)
• MSc Development Studies (2022)
• MSc Development Studies (Contemporary India Pathway) (2018)
• MSc Development Studies (Contemporary India Pathway) (2019)
• MSc Development Studies (Contemporary India Pathway) (2020)
• MSc Development Studies (Contemporary India Pathway) (2021)
• MSc Development Studies (Labour pathway) (2020)
• MSc Development Studies with reference to South Asia (2022)

Modules Taught

• Civil society, social movements and the development process
• Partnerships Beyond Borders: NGOs, Social Movements and Civil Society in Transnational Development
• 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
• Christian Sowa, The Accommodation of Migrants in Berlin: Exploring the City and Urban Transformations (Working Title)
• Guanchen Lai , Speaking from the village: modes of writing about the village in contemporary Hindi fiction
• Hashim Rashid, The Agrarian Question in West Punjab since 1885: The Politics of the Formation of a New Peasantry
• Manish Maskara, Identity of Bihari migrant labour in India's cities
• Philip Hadley,
• Sruthi Herbert,
• Vidya Venkat, India’s Democratic Revolution: The Right to Information and the Anti-Corruption Discourse

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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

Articles

Sinha, Subir (2017) 'Fragile Hegemony: Modi, Social Media and Competitive Electoral Populism in India'. International Journal of Communication, (11) 2017, pp 4158-4180.

Sinha, Subir (2016) 'Histories of Power’ and the ‘Universalisation of Capital’ in India: Between and Beyond Marxism and Postcolonial Theory'. Critical Sociology, (43) 4-5, pp 529-544.

Sinha, Subir and Varma, Rashmi (2015) 'Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What's Left of the Debate?'. Critical Sociology, (43) 4-5, pp 545-558.

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.

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.

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'. London: Pluto Press, pp 163 - 169.

Sinha, Subir (2004) 'Development Counternarratives: Taking Social Movements Seriously'. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 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.

Other

Sinha, Subir (2000) 'Panchayati Raj Institutions and Natural Resource Management'.

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