Listening In the Field, a promising development podcast from India (do check them out in case you haven’t already), open their second season with a great episode on Kerala – the poster child of development in India and where it is today. Includes discussions on how Kerala’s development trajectory has meant different things for men and womenContinueContinue reading “Link Pack #14: Kerala, poverty pathways, and coping strategies”
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New Project: Recovery with Dignity
I’m starting a new project called ‘Recovery with Dignity’ with a great set of researchers at the University of East Anglia and IIHS. We’re examining processes and impacts of representation and memorialisation in post-disaster recovery processes, with case studies in Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. As the project takes shape, the team is thinking andContinueContinue reading “New Project: Recovery with Dignity”
Link Pack #13: A great paper on vulnerability
The paper closes on a positive note with directions for future research, practice, and funding. The authors call for methodological development (something we have been trying to do within the ASSAR project through life history interviews), expanding future scenarios work that is predominantly quantitative and focussed on biophysical aspects, reimagining case studies to draw on theirContinueContinue reading “Link Pack #13: A great paper on vulnerability”
Bigfoot: On being a climate scientist that flies
Flying around the globe to attend climate change conferences that discuss the importance of flying less has got to be one of the most ironical parts of my job. On the one hand, the research world is moving towards being more connected. We’re in an age of multi-country studies and collaborative, international research teams; North-SouthContinueContinue reading “Bigfoot: On being a climate scientist that flies”
Research for (Policy) Impact
Demonstrating policy impact of research is becoming increasingly important. In countries like the UK, the Research Excellence Framework ensures that incentives are tied to demonstrating impact. While we aren\’t there yet in India, spaces such as IIHS and CPR India are increasingly contributing to conversations at the research-policy interface. Podcast on research impact In this context,ContinueContinue reading “Research for (Policy) Impact”
Link Pack #12: Three papers on barriers to adaptation
I recently came across three papers on adaptation barriers which are a back and forth between some authors in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Although focussed on adaptation barriers in the forestry sector, the points they make are quite interesting for climate change researchers in general. Williamson and Nelson 2017: Talk of 3 typesContinueContinue reading “Link Pack #12: Three papers on barriers to adaptation”
Link Pack #11: Deep Work, Mindfulness and a Paper on Caste
Paper The inimitable David Mosse recently wrote a paper in World Development called Caste and development: Contemporary perspectives on a structure of discrimination and advantage. It is an important paper that looks at caste in its various dimensions—economic divisions based on occupation, political through systems of dominance and rule, and ideological which is closely linked toContinueContinue reading “Link Pack #11: Deep Work, Mindfulness and a Paper on Caste”
New paper: Risks and responses in India’s drylands
The latest World Bank Report on climate change in South Asia proclaims “South Asia is highly vulnerable to climate change. And it’s getting worse”. There is an ever-increasing body of research showing that India is facing and will continue to face rising temperatures, more erratic rainfall, and more severe drought-like conditions. The implications of theseContinueContinue reading “New paper: Risks and responses in India’s drylands”
Link Pack #10: A desi dinosaur and a paper on development pedagogy
Book I have finally got around to reading Pranay Lal’s impressive book Indica: A deep natural history of the Indian subcontinent. Just halfway through the book but it is already something I wished I had to read in school – would\’ve made my geology, geography, biology classes so much more interesting. In case you aren’tContinueContinue reading “Link Pack #10: A desi dinosaur and a paper on development pedagogy”
What are the costs of studying over-researched places?
Over at Twitter, Cat Button recently advertised a Call for Papers on “Over-researched Places”. Fascinating right? Wondering about research spaces that are revisited and researched repeatedly, she calls for reflexive interrogation of the issue of “researcher saturation and its consequences”. Over-researched places in urban India The idea immediately appealed to me. In development research acrossContinueContinue reading “What are the costs of studying over-researched places?”
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