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Vasundhara Jairath 

Vasundhara Jairath 

Assistant Professor 
Education: Ph.D.
Development Studies
vasundharaj@iitg.ac.in
+91 361 2582584
Room No: 218
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Research Interests: Political Economy of Land and Development, Critical Agrarian Studies, Social Movements, Indigenous Politics, Decolonisation of Knowledge

Journal Publications

1. Vasundhara Jairath, "Special Issue on Dispossession and Resistance in India and Mexico: Introduction", Journal of Developing Societies, vol.40, Issue no.3, ISBN.0169796X [2024]

2. Vasundhara Jairath, "Book Review: Set Adrift: Capitalist transformations and community politics along Mumbai's shore", Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol.57, Issue no.1-2, pp.173-175, ISBN.0069-9667 [2023],

3. Vasundhara Jairath, "Development and the Neo-liberal Agenda", Economic and Political Weekly, vol.56, Issue no.6, pp.10-12, ISBN.00129976 [2021]

4. Vasundhara Jairath, "Environment as Land: Understanding anti-displacement politics in Jharkhand", Journal of Developing Societies, Sage Publications, vol.37, Issue no.2, pp.216-231, ISBN.0169796X [2021]

5. Vasundhara Jairath, "Situating Claim-Making: Land and Adivasi Assertion in Jharkhand", Sociological Bulletin, Sage Publications, vol.69, Issue no.1, pp.51-66, ISBN.0038-0229 [2020], 10.1177/0038022919899017

6. Vasundhara Jairath, "Book Review: Life in Oil: Cofan Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia", Conservation and Society, ATREE, vol.16, Issue no.4, pp.527-528, ISBN.09724923 [2018], 10.4103/cs.cs_18_65

7. Vasundhara Jairath, "Book Review: Staking Claims: The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India", Contributions to Indian Sociology, Sage Publications, vol.52, Issue no.2, pp.259-261, ISBN.0069-9667 [2018], 10.1177/0069966718754659

8. Vasundhara Jairath, "Challenging Northern Hegemony: Toward South-South Dialogue in Latin American Studies", LASA Forum, LASA, vol.46, Issue no.1, pp.22-24, ISBN.0890-7218 [2015]

9. Vasundhara Jairath, "Writing Resistance, Revisiting Ruptures", Economic and Political Weekly, vol.45, Issue no.36, pp.75-77, ISBN.0012-9976 [2010]

Book Chapter

1. Vasundhara Jairath, "Caste Power and Land Grab: The case of a solar power plant in Assam" , Anthropocene and Climate Change: Politics of Environment in India , Routledge , [2025]

2. Vasundhara Jairath, "Adivasi Movements in Santal and Munda Regions" , The Indians: Histories of a Civilization , Aleph Book Company , [2023]

3. Vasundhara Jairath, "La reivindicacion indi颅gena y el movimiento contra la presa La Parota [Indigenous assertion and the movement against the La Parota dam]" , Conflictos y Resistencias: Energi颅a y conflictividad socioambiental en Mexico [Conflicts and Resistances: Energy and environmental conflict in Mexico] , UAEM, Miguel 脙ngel Porra , vol.NA , pp.NA-NA, [2019]

Books

1. Angela Ixkic Bastian Duarte, Vasundhara Jairath, Conflictos y Resistencias: Energ铆a y conflictividad socioambiental en Mexico (Conflicts and Resistance: Energy and environmental conflict in Mexico), UAEM, Miguel 脙ngel Porra, vol.NA, Issue no.NA [2019]

Others

1. Vasundhara Jairath, "Farmers' Protests: An Opportune Moment to Review the Development Model of Land Grabbing", The Wire [2020],

2. Vasundhara Jairath, "Land Acquisition and State Policy in India", Ritimo [2018],

3. Vasundhara Jairath, "Understanding Anti-Dispossession Resistance in India: The case of the movement against Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd. in Jharkhand, India", Ritimo [2018],

4. Vasundhara Jairath, Angela Ixkic Bastian Duarte, "Delineating Structures of Dispossession in India and Mexico", Ritimo [2018],

5. Angela Ixkic Bastian Duarte, Vasundhara Jairath, "Anti-Dispossession Movements in India and Mexico", Ritimo [2018],

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Dispossession and Resistance in India and Mexico
Funding Agency : Ritimo, France
Principal Investigator: Vasundhara Jairath
Co-investigator: Angela Ixkic Bastian Duarte
Duration/Starting Year: 16-12-2016 to 16-12-2017
Status: Completed
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Political Economy of Land and Development in Assam
Funding Agency : ICSSR
Principal Investigator: Dr. Vasundhara Jairath
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2022-04-01 to 2024-03-31
Status: Completed

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Sl.No Name Year Dissertation Title
1 Zil Gala 2023 Crisis Infrastructure in Neoliberal Urbanisation, A Case Study of Mumbai Coastal Road Project
2 Swadhina Jojo 2023 DEVELOPMENT, DISPLACEMENT AND COMPENSATION : A STUDY OF ROURKELA STEEL PLANT
3 Archana Gopan 2023 CONTESTATION AROUND LAND AND ADIVASI POLICIES : A CASE STUDY OF MUTHANGA LAND STRUGGLE IN KERALA
4 Narayana Murthy Chelluboyina 2023 PUBLIC SPACES AND COMMONS IN URBAN AREAS : A CASE STUDY ON BRAHMAPUTRA RIVERFRONT PROJECT, GUWAHATI
5 Anindya Basak 2021 Negotiating with Neoliberal Capital: A Case Study of Patharghata, Rajarhat
6 Varsha Priyadarshini 2021 Bargaining Demolitions in the City: A case of Bhubaneswar Slums
7 Samyak Balwant Lohakare 2021 Impact of Drought in Vidarbha Region: A critical study of Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan in Wardha district of Maharashtra
8 Shweta Kakkar 2021 The Uncomfortable Question of Caste in Hindu Nationalism
9 MEGNATH CHAKMA 2020 The lack of citizenship status and the impact on the everyday lives of Chakma in Diyun, Arunachal Pradesh
10 Deep jyoti Mahanta 2019 Impact of displacement on agrarian Livelihood: A Case study of 'no 2 salaguri and pahi gaon' villages of sivasagar district of assam
11 Namrata Gogoi 2019 Change in livelihood caused by state led infrastructural project: a case study of dhola sadiya bridge, Assam
12 Ng Sourav Singha 2019
13 Pranab Kr. Pegu 2019 Critically understanding the Need for Big Dams in the North Eastern states of India

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Awards and Achievements

Award Title : Participant in Brown International Advanced Research 探花视频s (BIARI)'s fully-funded summer programme on 'Forced Population Displacements and the Making of the Modern World' at Brown University, Providence, USA in June 2018
2018-03-19 International
Award Title : Inlaks Research Travel Grant for fieldwork in Mexico, March-June 2013
2012-12-30 National
Award Title : Indian Council of Social Science Research Data Collection Abroad Grant for fieldwork in Mexico, July-August 2013
2012-10-15 National
Award Title : Member of Editorial Board of Springer Nature Social Sciences journal, an international multi- and inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal serving the broad social sciences community
International

Patents

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Attended

Title: Land as Private Property and the Question of Labour: Notes from Assam, India

Name of Conference: Critical Agrarian Studies in the 21st Century

Journal of Peasant Studies, College of Humanities and Development Studies-China Agricultural University, CASAS, Transnational 探花视频, Beijing, China Oct 10, 2023 - Oct 12, 2023 No.of Partcipants: 200 International
Title: Method and Knowledge Production: A Proposal for Decolonisation in Curriculum

Name of Conference: The Decolonial Turn and the Humanities Curriculum: Prospects, Practice and Interventions

University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Jul 19, 2010 - Jul 19, 2012 International
Title: Indigenous Assertions in the Global South

Name of Conference: Identity Politics Reconsidered

Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam Dec 18, 2005 - Dec 18, 2006 International
Title: Mapping Indigenous Difference in India and Mexico

Name of Conference: Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress

LASA, Barcelona, Spain May 23, 2018 - May 26, 2018 International

Invited

Title: Demanding land rights in Assam, India: Private property and its critique from below

Name of Invited Lecture: Land, Labour and the Politics of Development Study Group Webinars

Development Studies Association, UK May 13, 2024 - May 13, 2024 International
Title: Land titling, security and land rights: Contextualising Mission Basundhara in Assam

Name of Invited Lecture: CPS Policy Talks

Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay, Mumbai Apr 10, 2024 - Apr 10, 2024 National
Title: Desocupacoes Forzadas e Resistencia: Experiencias a partir do Sur Global (Forced Displacement and Resistance: Experiences from the Global South)

Name of Invited Lecture: O Instituto Latino-Americano de Economia, Sociedade e Pol脙颅tica (ILAESP), UNILA

Universidade Federal da Integracao Latino-Americana, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil Dec 15, 2015 - Dec 15, 2015 International
Title: Land, Identity, Displacement and Development

Name of Invited Lecture: Special Lecture Series

Department of Sociology, Tripura University, Agartala, Tripura Sep 1, 2017 - Sep 1, 2017 National

Organised

Title: Environmental Politics

Name of Workshop: Decolonising Knowledge Production: A dialogue on environmental politics in Assam

IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, India and 探花视频 of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Online Feb 11, 2022 - Feb 12, 2022 No.of Partcipants: 30 International
Title: Development Finance

Name of Workshop: Development Financing in India: Understanding Trends, Institutions and Politics

CFA & HSS, IITG, IIT Guwahati Feb 10, 2018 - Feb 11, 2018 No.of Partcipants: 20 National

Invited

Title: Visiting Fellow

Name of Others:

Centre for Liberal Education, IIT Bombay, Mumbai Feb 7, 2024 - May 7, 2024 National

Invited

Name of Seminar: The Origins of Civilization and Histories of India

International Research Division, India International Centre, New Delhi Jul 26, 2022 - Jul 28, 2022 No.of Partcipants: 25 National

Organised

Title: Politics of Land and Dispossession in the Global South

Name of Special Panels: Development Studies Association Conference 2024: Social justice and development in a polarising world

SOAS, University of London, London Jun 26, 2024 - Jun 28, 2024 International
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