Sambit Mallick
Biographic Data
| ID | 249440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sambit Mallick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sambit |
| FAMILY NAME | Mallick |
| SIGNATURE | MALLICK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0667-1510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sequential integration of technology and negotiating communication ecologies through digital media
Political Ecology and Social Production of Drinking Water Scarcity in India's Contaminated Landscapes
Employing the political ecology framework, this article aims to: (a) evaluate the effectiveness of political ecology as a framework to understand disparities in drinking water access in India, with specific reference to the case studies of Shahpur in Bihar and Myorpur in Uttar Pradesh; (b) investigate how social hierarchy, governance and material risk shape water accessibility; and (c) identify actionable strategies for equitable and participator…
Infrastructure, Spatial Imaginaries and Dispossession
Port-city making within the larger urban expansion discourse has become a defining feature of contemporary development along India’s coasts. The Vizhinjam International Seaport in Kerala exemplifies how infrastructure reconfigures coastal space and ruptures scales, producing dispossession within frontiers. The port infrastructure and its entanglements with stakeholders’ spatial imaginaries produce these complexities within the frontiers, as we ex…
Coastal Erosion, Enclosure and Displacement
Following India's neoliberal reforms in the 1990s, the central government encouraged coastal resource extraction through industrial aquaculture, deep‐sea mining and port infrastructure under the banner of the ‘Blue Economy’ framework and the Sagarmala Programme. This shift was also embraced by the State of Kerala and has led to significant transformation of its coastal region, including a profound reshaping of coastal economies and intensifying e…
Body as Space, Politics of Body Modification and Representation
Sociology of the body as an area of study has been concerned with many social aspects of the body. Foucault’s body-politic led us to understand the relation between the individual body and the many political aspects of the society. This paper similarly deals with the relationship between power and the body in an indigenous community. Taking the case of facial tattoos among the Apatanis, we have looked at the body as a socio-political space where …
Repossession Through Community Participation
Seeds are the building blocks of food security, and their free exchange amongst the farming community has formed the bedrock for maintaining genetic diversity in addition to food security and sovereignty. The appropriation of production, exchange, and marketing of seeds by the corporate over the past decades has altered the agricultural scene in the Global South. Given the conflicting perspectives, mandates, and practices of multiple stakeholders…
The Forest Rights Act and Adivasi Landlessness in Kerala
This article is an attempt to understand the Adivasi landlessness in the context of the implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) in Kerala. Kerala has been projected as a model of development so far as social development indicators are concerned. Based on in-depth personal interviews with 72 Adivasis and three Adivasi and human rights activists in eight districts of Kerala, this article examines whose landholding has been a topic of debate i…
Powerloom in Textile Industry
There was an uncritical transition from handloom clusters to powerloom clusters initiated by the Government of Odisha in 1972, having a debilitating effect on both handloom and powerloom. This article examines the factors contributing to the plight of powerloom clusters in Odisha. In-depth personal interviews were conducted with various stakeholders of Siminoi powerloom clusters of Dhenkanal District in Odisha. A lack of planning in powerloom, ed…
The Intersection of Identities
Access to primary education is often interpreted as access to school education, resources inside and outside the school, the way different children are treated by teachers and peers, and even access to distinct types of schools. However, different resources are not accessible to all members of a particular social system based on their intersectional identities. The intersection of identities may be gender, caste, class, region, religion, race, an…
Tattooing, Cultural Change, and the Indigenous Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh
Conflicting Institutional Mandates, Biofuels, Jatropha in India
This paper examines the emergence of biofuels and its changing institutional mandates having implications for India's renewable energy policy. Biofuels have commanded much attention in research and policy circles as a renewable energy source providing energy security, creating sustainable livelihoods, mitigating climate change and fostering international trade. Diverting land for biofuels might compromise food security and health for the poor and…
Handloom and Powerloom Industries in Odisha
The handloom industry in India is an ancient cottage industry with a decentralized setup that provides jobs to about 35 million people. Handloom established its reputation in the global market long before the industrial revolution. Today, India’s handloom and spinning wheel produces the largest variation of designs. It continued to flourish despite the oppression of the British Government. In India the powerloom sector is the dominant player in t…
Non-Inclusive Trade Unionism in the Tea Estates in Assam
The state of Assam alone produces nearly 53 percent of the total tea production in India. Around one million workers are engaged in the tea industry in India. Tea – as a commercial product first cultivated and expanded by the British – is an outcome of the toil and struggle of the Adivasi workers or indigenous people of central and east India who were made to migrate to Assam under extremely brutal conditions, and they form one of the most oppres…
Social Knowledge
Prohibition on tradition, tattooing, and the Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh
Coercion, Consent and Contestation
The advent of the customer–funder–policymaker as a prominent element in scientific practice since mid-1990s in India and intensifying thereafter seems to have forced scientists to (re)negotiate scientific boundaries and to do some of the delicate boundary work. The challenge for scientists is to not only bring science ‘close enough’ to politics and policy demonstrating social accountability, legitimacy and relevance but also avoid either science …
Interests, Norms, Meanings
Agrarian environments have to be comprehended as being part of a biophysical and social environment that includes the urban and the nonurban, the arable and the nonarable, and other areas that are integrally linked to the world of agriculture and environment and their allied socioeconomic relations. This article examines the responses of rice biotechnologists located in selected Indian public agricultural institutes under the aegis of the State A…
Contentions and Confirmations over Genetically Modified Technology
The present study, from sociology of science and technology perspectives, examines the socio-political construal of innovations in rice biotechnology research in India with special reference to genetically modified ( GM ) technology. The primary data for the study has been collected through in-depth personal interviews with 68 molecular biologists and plant breeders engaged in rice biotechnology research in 20 scientific institutions coming under…
Knowledge Production in Biotechnology in India
The 21st century marks a significant change to the context in which knowledge is produced. The new institutional arrangements that seek to protect knowledge and its applications - and the possible global networking of organizations and global flows of knowledge - have changed the context of knowledge production. Some developing countries like India have built impressive research and development (R&D) institutions in the latter half of the 20th ce…
The Intellectual Property Rights Regime and Emerging Institutional Framework of Scientific Research
The Intellectual Property Rights Regime and Emerging Institutional Framework of Scientific Research
War and Imperialism
Designs on Nature
Peter M. Rosset, Food is Different
Globalization of the Other Underdevelopment
Designs on Nature
Prohibition on tradition, tattooing, and the Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh
Tattooing, Cultural Change, and the Indigenous Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh
Coercion, Consent and Contestation
The advent of the customer–funder–policymaker as a prominent element in scientific practice since mid-1990s in India and intensifying thereafter seems to have forced scientists to (re)negotiate scientific boundaries and to do some of the delicate boundary work. The challenge for scientists is to not only bring science ‘close enough’ to politics and policy demonstrating social accountability, legitimacy and relevance but also avoid either science …
The Intellectual Property Rights Regime and Emerging Institutional Framework of Scientific Research
Globalization of the Other Underdevelopment
Peter M. Rosset, Food is Different
War and Imperialism
Designs on Nature
The Intellectual Property Rights Regime and Emerging Institutional Framework of Scientific Research
The Intellectual Property Rights Regime and Emerging Institutional Framework of Scientific Research
Knowledge Production in Biotechnology in India
The 21st century marks a significant change to the context in which knowledge is produced. The new institutional arrangements that seek to protect knowledge and its applications - and the possible global networking of organizations and global flows of knowledge - have changed the context of knowledge production. Some developing countries like India have built impressive research and development (R&D) institutions in the latter half of the 20th ce…
Contentions and Confirmations over Genetically Modified Technology
The present study, from sociology of science and technology perspectives, examines the socio-political construal of innovations in rice biotechnology research in India with special reference to genetically modified ( GM ) technology. The primary data for the study has been collected through in-depth personal interviews with 68 molecular biologists and plant breeders engaged in rice biotechnology research in 20 scientific institutions coming under…
Interests, Norms, Meanings
Agrarian environments have to be comprehended as being part of a biophysical and social environment that includes the urban and the nonurban, the arable and the nonarable, and other areas that are integrally linked to the world of agriculture and environment and their allied socioeconomic relations. This article examines the responses of rice biotechnologists located in selected Indian public agricultural institutes under the aegis of the State A…
Coercion, Consent and Contestation
The advent of the customer–funder–policymaker as a prominent element in scientific practice since mid-1990s in India and intensifying thereafter seems to have forced scientists to (re)negotiate scientific boundaries and to do some of the delicate boundary work. The challenge for scientists is to not only bring science ‘close enough’ to politics and policy demonstrating social accountability, legitimacy and relevance but also avoid either science …
Handloom and Powerloom Industries in Odisha
The handloom industry in India is an ancient cottage industry with a decentralized setup that provides jobs to about 35 million people. Handloom established its reputation in the global market long before the industrial revolution. Today, India’s handloom and spinning wheel produces the largest variation of designs. It continued to flourish despite the oppression of the British Government. In India the powerloom sector is the dominant player in t…
Non-Inclusive Trade Unionism in the Tea Estates in Assam
The state of Assam alone produces nearly 53 percent of the total tea production in India. Around one million workers are engaged in the tea industry in India. Tea – as a commercial product first cultivated and expanded by the British – is an outcome of the toil and struggle of the Adivasi workers or indigenous people of central and east India who were made to migrate to Assam under extremely brutal conditions, and they form one of the most oppres…
Social Knowledge
Prohibition on tradition, tattooing, and the Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh
The Intersection of Identities
Access to primary education is often interpreted as access to school education, resources inside and outside the school, the way different children are treated by teachers and peers, and even access to distinct types of schools. However, different resources are not accessible to all members of a particular social system based on their intersectional identities. The intersection of identities may be gender, caste, class, region, religion, race, an…
Tattooing, Cultural Change, and the Indigenous Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh
Conflicting Institutional Mandates, Biofuels, Jatropha in India
This paper examines the emergence of biofuels and its changing institutional mandates having implications for India's renewable energy policy. Biofuels have commanded much attention in research and policy circles as a renewable energy source providing energy security, creating sustainable livelihoods, mitigating climate change and fostering international trade. Diverting land for biofuels might compromise food security and health for the poor and…
Repossession Through Community Participation
Seeds are the building blocks of food security, and their free exchange amongst the farming community has formed the bedrock for maintaining genetic diversity in addition to food security and sovereignty. The appropriation of production, exchange, and marketing of seeds by the corporate over the past decades has altered the agricultural scene in the Global South. Given the conflicting perspectives, mandates, and practices of multiple stakeholders…
The Forest Rights Act and Adivasi Landlessness in Kerala
This article is an attempt to understand the Adivasi landlessness in the context of the implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) in Kerala. Kerala has been projected as a model of development so far as social development indicators are concerned. Based on in-depth personal interviews with 72 Adivasis and three Adivasi and human rights activists in eight districts of Kerala, this article examines whose landholding has been a topic of debate i…
Powerloom in Textile Industry
There was an uncritical transition from handloom clusters to powerloom clusters initiated by the Government of Odisha in 1972, having a debilitating effect on both handloom and powerloom. This article examines the factors contributing to the plight of powerloom clusters in Odisha. In-depth personal interviews were conducted with various stakeholders of Siminoi powerloom clusters of Dhenkanal District in Odisha. A lack of planning in powerloom, ed…
Body as Space, Politics of Body Modification and Representation
Sociology of the body as an area of study has been concerned with many social aspects of the body. Foucault’s body-politic led us to understand the relation between the individual body and the many political aspects of the society. This paper similarly deals with the relationship between power and the body in an indigenous community. Taking the case of facial tattoos among the Apatanis, we have looked at the body as a socio-political space where …
Sequential integration of technology and negotiating communication ecologies through digital media
Political Ecology and Social Production of Drinking Water Scarcity in India's Contaminated Landscapes
Employing the political ecology framework, this article aims to: (a) evaluate the effectiveness of political ecology as a framework to understand disparities in drinking water access in India, with specific reference to the case studies of Shahpur in Bihar and Myorpur in Uttar Pradesh; (b) investigate how social hierarchy, governance and material risk shape water accessibility; and (c) identify actionable strategies for equitable and participator…
Infrastructure, Spatial Imaginaries and Dispossession
Port-city making within the larger urban expansion discourse has become a defining feature of contemporary development along India’s coasts. The Vizhinjam International Seaport in Kerala exemplifies how infrastructure reconfigures coastal space and ruptures scales, producing dispossession within frontiers. The port infrastructure and its entanglements with stakeholders’ spatial imaginaries produce these complexities within the frontiers, as we ex…
Coastal Erosion, Enclosure and Displacement
Following India's neoliberal reforms in the 1990s, the central government encouraged coastal resource extraction through industrial aquaculture, deep‐sea mining and port infrastructure under the banner of the ‘Blue Economy’ framework and the Sagarmala Programme. This shift was also embraced by the State of Kerala and has led to significant transformation of its coastal region, including a profound reshaping of coastal economies and intensifying e…
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