D Parthasarathy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 270333 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D Parthasarathy |
| NOMBRES | D |
| APELLIDO | Parthasarathy |
| FIRMA | PARTHASARATHY D |
| AFILIACIONES | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3096-214X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The praxis of transformation and adaptation to climate change
This article aims to examine and further develop the concept of praxis – processes to critique the status quo and search for alternatives – in relation to transformative adaptation to climate change. The need for transformative change to support climate change adaptation is clear. However, there are gaps in our understanding of connections between, on the one side, individual and household-level action, and on the other, the broader structural ch…
Transformation in the context of uncertainty and compounding effects
The paper explores how deliberate transformation may arise from ‘below’ in marginal environments with high levels of climatic uncertainty. • Using the lens of transformation as praxis, we highlight pathways and practices that facilitate or impede transformative change. • Using a transdisciplinary approach, the focus is on exploring pathways to transformation drawing on bottom-up approaches. • We attempt to co-produce hybrid knowledge(s) combining…
The impact of floods and cyclones on fiscal arrangements in India
Classification and Evaluation of Current Climate Vulnerability Assessment Methods
Mapping the Pluralities of Agrarian Change in India
The agricultural economy of Jharkhand is primarily understood to be ‘subsistence’ agriculture. However, an ongoing agrarian change in rural Jharkhand has drawn less academic attention. This substantial change is from indigenous seeds to high-yielding varieties of paddy seeds enabling food sufficiency in the villages to a larger extent. In addition, the introduction of commercial crops like vegetables, watermelons and marigolds is another attendan…
The Political Ecology of Covid-19 and Compounded Uncertainties in Marginal Environments
In this paper, we use a political ecology lens to look at how COVID-19 adds to a set of existing uncertainties and challenges faced by vulnerable people in the marginal environments of coastal India. Over the last few decades, local people have been systematically dispossessed from resource commons in the name of industrial, urban and infrastructure development or conservation efforts, leading to livelihood loss. We build on our current research …
Climate Justice for Whom? Understanding the Vernaculars of Climate Action and Justice in Marginal Environments of India
As calls for climate action gain momentum, governments and international organisations are committing to ambitious climate targets and scaling up their climate action. In this article, we argue that to address climate change, ‘just’ climate action is required which moves away from portraying local communities as ‘victims’ and/or ‘beneficiaries’ and focuses on investing in their social and material capabilities so that they determine their futures…
Transformation as praxis
This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion of transformation may be conceptualized from ‘below’ in marginal environments that are especially marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. We propose the notion of transformation as praxis — where the focus is on b…
Cityscape Transformation and the Temporal Metamorphosis of East Kolkata Wetlands
Cities are changing globally because neoliberalism demands so. But the impacts of these changes do not remain confined within urban limits only. Kolkata similarly is attempting to change itself in leaps and bounds because it has to keep up with the demands of neoliberalism. However, along with the city, the wetlands in the eastern vicinity of Kolkata are also undergoing a major transformation. This article attempts to look at these transformation…
Knowledge Generation for Innovation in Ayurvedic Cosmetics MSMEs
This article addresses links between entrepreneurs’ cultural and symbolic capital and their practices of knowledge generation for innovation. Through an ethnographic study of four Ayurvedic cosmetics manufacturing MSMEs in Mumbai, we argue that innovation in cosmetics MSMEs is the result of conversion of cultural capital into symbolic capital that in turn converts into economic capital. The study shows that Ayurveda knowledge resides in the entre…
Inequality, uncertainty, and vulnerability
In conceptualizing and addressing problems of risk society, significant strands of theorization address key problems of modernity in the anthropocene world focusing on issues of science, technocracy, reflexivity, social organization, conflict and the environmental impact of our production and distribution systems. However, classical problems of inequality, social justice and an all-pervasive uncertainty affecting vulnerable populations are inadeq…
Urban development, environmental vulnerability and CRZ violations in India
Pandharpur’s Wari
This paper examines the wari as a discursive terrain produced by the interface of folk and Hinduised cultures. We focus on socio-religious interactions and divergences as crucial sites for the production of a discourse on the economy of worship, devotion and social equality. Popularly understood as a procession to Pandharpur, wari is understood here as a social force mediating the transmission of ideas and practices through the interface of vario…
Decentralization, pluralization, balkanization? Challenges for disaster mitigation and governance in Mumbai
Are sustainable cities "sustainable" for the poor? a study of kolkata in eastern india
L’obiettivo principale di questo articolo e rivedere criticamente alcuni approcci associati all’ambientalismo urbano e alle citta sostenibili, attraverso l’analisi del caso di alcune tra le principali citta indiane. Calcutta viene presa in considerazione per via dei suoi tentativi di raggiungere lo status di world-class city. Attraverso lo studio di caso, l’articolo tenta di esaminare se questa citta stia riuscendo o meno ad abbinare giustizia so…
The Poverty of (Marxist) Theory
This paper maps the geographical contours of socio-economic transitions that are currently underway in India that link caste and capital, rural and urban, peasants and the state in diverse ways. It explains regional variations in the emergence and impacts of provincial capital and how these affect patterns of (primitive) accumulation, and argues against common Marxist derivations of the relationship between capitalism and de-peasantization. Empha…
Disaster Vulnerability Mapping for a Densely Populated Coastal Urban Area
Coastal urban cities frequently face multiple hazards, including potentially disastrous extreme events. To combat this, vulnerability assessment is essential to developing an effective mitigation strategy. This study proposes a framework to assess the vulnerability of any densely populated urban area to disasters by considering both the population and the assets that are at risk. A set of indicators is also proposed to assess the vulnerability of…
Informality, Resilience, and the Political Implications of Disaster Governance
Will you walk into my parlor? Spaces and practices of beauty in Mumbai
While studies on corporeal beauty – the ‘body beautiful’ – constitute a mini academic industry, everyday practices of ‘beauty work’ are somewhat underresearched. This paper engages with notions and practices of beauty in a context of socio-cultural transformation and global flows in urban India. The ‘beauty parlor’ emerges as a socio-cultural space where urban aspirations are made and realized, mirroring the shifting place of beauty in the daily …
Introduction
Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia
Civil Society Organisation Partnerships in Urban Governance
This paper reviews the role of civil society organisation partnerships in urban governance through an analysis of the Advanced Locality Management groups and the NGO Council in Mumbai. The exclusive and restrictive nature of these partnerships with the municipal corporation are brought out by highlighting their non-representative nature, class character, and a particularised vision about the city by which a large section of citizens falls in the …
Is Migration Status a Determinant of Urban Nutrition Insecurity? Empirical Evidence From Mumbai City, India
From an economic perspective that understood it as a spillover of development, migration is now also the subject of socioeconomic investigation incorporating the problems of assimilation, relative deprivation and isolation. The corollary is an increased emphasis on economic and social understanding of migration and its consequences. This entails studying migration or migrants in terms of factors beyond income. Health outcome is important among th…
Social and environmental insecurities in Mumbai
Over the last few years Mumbai — India's financial and cammercial capital — has been affected by adverse climatic events leading to flooding and landslides resulting in high loss of lives and property. While different sections of the population were affected, the poor and the socially marginalized — living in environmentally risk prone areas — were more affected than others. In view of the dearth of comprehensive studies linking social vulnerabil…
Measuring or defining sustainability? Impact assessment of an agricultural technology
This report is of a study to assess the efficiency and sustainability impacts of a seed-based technology for pigeonpea in semi-arid central India. The problem of integrating environmental assessment with economic and social impact assessment arises from an artificial separation of the social and natural sciences, and the ‘disciplinization’ of the social sciences. Thus sustainability must be defined in a way that pre-empts the need to integrate re…
Transformation as praxis
This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion of transformation may be conceptualized from ‘below’ in marginal environments that are especially marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. We propose the notion of transformation as praxis — where the focus is on b…
Inequality, uncertainty, and vulnerability
In conceptualizing and addressing problems of risk society, significant strands of theorization address key problems of modernity in the anthropocene world focusing on issues of science, technocracy, reflexivity, social organization, conflict and the environmental impact of our production and distribution systems. However, classical problems of inequality, social justice and an all-pervasive uncertainty affecting vulnerable populations are inadeq…
The Poverty of (Marxist) Theory
This paper maps the geographical contours of socio-economic transitions that are currently underway in India that link caste and capital, rural and urban, peasants and the state in diverse ways. It explains regional variations in the emergence and impacts of provincial capital and how these affect patterns of (primitive) accumulation, and argues against common Marxist derivations of the relationship between capitalism and de-peasantization. Empha…
Informality, Resilience, and the Political Implications of Disaster Governance
Decentralization, pluralization, balkanization? Challenges for disaster mitigation and governance in Mumbai
Disaster Vulnerability Mapping for a Densely Populated Coastal Urban Area
Coastal urban cities frequently face multiple hazards, including potentially disastrous extreme events. To combat this, vulnerability assessment is essential to developing an effective mitigation strategy. This study proposes a framework to assess the vulnerability of any densely populated urban area to disasters by considering both the population and the assets that are at risk. A set of indicators is also proposed to assess the vulnerability of…
Civil Society Organisation Partnerships in Urban Governance
This paper reviews the role of civil society organisation partnerships in urban governance through an analysis of the Advanced Locality Management groups and the NGO Council in Mumbai. The exclusive and restrictive nature of these partnerships with the municipal corporation are brought out by highlighting their non-representative nature, class character, and a particularised vision about the city by which a large section of citizens falls in the …
Cityscape Transformation and the Temporal Metamorphosis of East Kolkata Wetlands
Cities are changing globally because neoliberalism demands so. But the impacts of these changes do not remain confined within urban limits only. Kolkata similarly is attempting to change itself in leaps and bounds because it has to keep up with the demands of neoliberalism. However, along with the city, the wetlands in the eastern vicinity of Kolkata are also undergoing a major transformation. This article attempts to look at these transformation…
The Political Ecology of Covid-19 and Compounded Uncertainties in Marginal Environments
In this paper, we use a political ecology lens to look at how COVID-19 adds to a set of existing uncertainties and challenges faced by vulnerable people in the marginal environments of coastal India. Over the last few decades, local people have been systematically dispossessed from resource commons in the name of industrial, urban and infrastructure development or conservation efforts, leading to livelihood loss. We build on our current research …
Will you walk into my parlor? Spaces and practices of beauty in Mumbai
While studies on corporeal beauty – the ‘body beautiful’ – constitute a mini academic industry, everyday practices of ‘beauty work’ are somewhat underresearched. This paper engages with notions and practices of beauty in a context of socio-cultural transformation and global flows in urban India. The ‘beauty parlor’ emerges as a socio-cultural space where urban aspirations are made and realized, mirroring the shifting place of beauty in the daily …
Measuring or defining sustainability? Impact assessment of an agricultural technology
This report is of a study to assess the efficiency and sustainability impacts of a seed-based technology for pigeonpea in semi-arid central India. The problem of integrating environmental assessment with economic and social impact assessment arises from an artificial separation of the social and natural sciences, and the ‘disciplinization’ of the social sciences. Thus sustainability must be defined in a way that pre-empts the need to integrate re…
Is Migration Status a Determinant of Urban Nutrition Insecurity? Empirical Evidence From Mumbai City, India
From an economic perspective that understood it as a spillover of development, migration is now also the subject of socioeconomic investigation incorporating the problems of assimilation, relative deprivation and isolation. The corollary is an increased emphasis on economic and social understanding of migration and its consequences. This entails studying migration or migrants in terms of factors beyond income. Health outcome is important among th…
Social and environmental insecurities in Mumbai
Over the last few years Mumbai — India's financial and cammercial capital — has been affected by adverse climatic events leading to flooding and landslides resulting in high loss of lives and property. While different sections of the population were affected, the poor and the socially marginalized — living in environmentally risk prone areas — were more affected than others. In view of the dearth of comprehensive studies linking social vulnerabil…
Civil Society Organisation Partnerships in Urban Governance
This paper reviews the role of civil society organisation partnerships in urban governance through an analysis of the Advanced Locality Management groups and the NGO Council in Mumbai. The exclusive and restrictive nature of these partnerships with the municipal corporation are brought out by highlighting their non-representative nature, class character, and a particularised vision about the city by which a large section of citizens falls in the …
Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia
Introduction
Will you walk into my parlor? Spaces and practices of beauty in Mumbai
While studies on corporeal beauty – the ‘body beautiful’ – constitute a mini academic industry, everyday practices of ‘beauty work’ are somewhat underresearched. This paper engages with notions and practices of beauty in a context of socio-cultural transformation and global flows in urban India. The ‘beauty parlor’ emerges as a socio-cultural space where urban aspirations are made and realized, mirroring the shifting place of beauty in the daily …
The Poverty of (Marxist) Theory
This paper maps the geographical contours of socio-economic transitions that are currently underway in India that link caste and capital, rural and urban, peasants and the state in diverse ways. It explains regional variations in the emergence and impacts of provincial capital and how these affect patterns of (primitive) accumulation, and argues against common Marxist derivations of the relationship between capitalism and de-peasantization. Empha…
Disaster Vulnerability Mapping for a Densely Populated Coastal Urban Area
Coastal urban cities frequently face multiple hazards, including potentially disastrous extreme events. To combat this, vulnerability assessment is essential to developing an effective mitigation strategy. This study proposes a framework to assess the vulnerability of any densely populated urban area to disasters by considering both the population and the assets that are at risk. A set of indicators is also proposed to assess the vulnerability of…
Informality, Resilience, and the Political Implications of Disaster Governance
Pandharpur’s Wari
This paper examines the wari as a discursive terrain produced by the interface of folk and Hinduised cultures. We focus on socio-religious interactions and divergences as crucial sites for the production of a discourse on the economy of worship, devotion and social equality. Popularly understood as a procession to Pandharpur, wari is understood here as a social force mediating the transmission of ideas and practices through the interface of vario…
Decentralization, pluralization, balkanization? Challenges for disaster mitigation and governance in Mumbai
Are sustainable cities "sustainable" for the poor? a study of kolkata in eastern india
L’obiettivo principale di questo articolo e rivedere criticamente alcuni approcci associati all’ambientalismo urbano e alle citta sostenibili, attraverso l’analisi del caso di alcune tra le principali citta indiane. Calcutta viene presa in considerazione per via dei suoi tentativi di raggiungere lo status di world-class city. Attraverso lo studio di caso, l’articolo tenta di esaminare se questa citta stia riuscendo o meno ad abbinare giustizia so…
Urban development, environmental vulnerability and CRZ violations in India
Inequality, uncertainty, and vulnerability
In conceptualizing and addressing problems of risk society, significant strands of theorization address key problems of modernity in the anthropocene world focusing on issues of science, technocracy, reflexivity, social organization, conflict and the environmental impact of our production and distribution systems. However, classical problems of inequality, social justice and an all-pervasive uncertainty affecting vulnerable populations are inadeq…
Knowledge Generation for Innovation in Ayurvedic Cosmetics MSMEs
This article addresses links between entrepreneurs’ cultural and symbolic capital and their practices of knowledge generation for innovation. Through an ethnographic study of four Ayurvedic cosmetics manufacturing MSMEs in Mumbai, we argue that innovation in cosmetics MSMEs is the result of conversion of cultural capital into symbolic capital that in turn converts into economic capital. The study shows that Ayurveda knowledge resides in the entre…
Cityscape Transformation and the Temporal Metamorphosis of East Kolkata Wetlands
Cities are changing globally because neoliberalism demands so. But the impacts of these changes do not remain confined within urban limits only. Kolkata similarly is attempting to change itself in leaps and bounds because it has to keep up with the demands of neoliberalism. However, along with the city, the wetlands in the eastern vicinity of Kolkata are also undergoing a major transformation. This article attempts to look at these transformation…
Transformation as praxis
This paper provides some of the conceptual and methodological underpinnings being developed in the ongoing TAPESTRY project which is part of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Programme. We debate how the notion of transformation may be conceptualized from ‘below’ in marginal environments that are especially marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties. We propose the notion of transformation as praxis — where the focus is on b…
The Political Ecology of Covid-19 and Compounded Uncertainties in Marginal Environments
In this paper, we use a political ecology lens to look at how COVID-19 adds to a set of existing uncertainties and challenges faced by vulnerable people in the marginal environments of coastal India. Over the last few decades, local people have been systematically dispossessed from resource commons in the name of industrial, urban and infrastructure development or conservation efforts, leading to livelihood loss. We build on our current research …
Climate Justice for Whom? Understanding the Vernaculars of Climate Action and Justice in Marginal Environments of India
As calls for climate action gain momentum, governments and international organisations are committing to ambitious climate targets and scaling up their climate action. In this article, we argue that to address climate change, ‘just’ climate action is required which moves away from portraying local communities as ‘victims’ and/or ‘beneficiaries’ and focuses on investing in their social and material capabilities so that they determine their futures…
Mapping the Pluralities of Agrarian Change in India
The agricultural economy of Jharkhand is primarily understood to be ‘subsistence’ agriculture. However, an ongoing agrarian change in rural Jharkhand has drawn less academic attention. This substantial change is from indigenous seeds to high-yielding varieties of paddy seeds enabling food sufficiency in the villages to a larger extent. In addition, the introduction of commercial crops like vegetables, watermelons and marigolds is another attendan…
The impact of floods and cyclones on fiscal arrangements in India
Classification and Evaluation of Current Climate Vulnerability Assessment Methods
The praxis of transformation and adaptation to climate change
This article aims to examine and further develop the concept of praxis – processes to critique the status quo and search for alternatives – in relation to transformative adaptation to climate change. The need for transformative change to support climate change adaptation is clear. However, there are gaps in our understanding of connections between, on the one side, individual and household-level action, and on the other, the broader structural ch…
Transformation in the context of uncertainty and compounding effects
The paper explores how deliberate transformation may arise from ‘below’ in marginal environments with high levels of climatic uncertainty. • Using the lens of transformation as praxis, we highlight pathways and practices that facilitate or impede transformative change. • Using a transdisciplinary approach, the focus is on exploring pathways to transformation drawing on bottom-up approaches. • We attempt to co-produce hybrid knowledge(s) combining…
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