D Roy
Biographic Data
| ID | 34044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Roy |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Roy |
| SIGNATURE | ROY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Social and Cultural Anthropologist based in Kolkata, Member of a Research Team in Global Development Studies University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4947-785X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Assembling the Urban Frontier
This article examines how migrants from the Indian Sundarbans participate in the making of Kolkata's eastern metropolitan frontier through everyday practices of settlement, labor, social reproduction, and claims‐making. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2018 and 2023 among rural migrants living in an informal settlement on Kolkata's urban edge, it traces how wetlands have been transformed into a densely inhabited and economicall…
Disaster, appropriation, and displacement in the Indian Sundarbans
How do we understand a disaster? How do we interpret the aftermath of a disaster, anyway? This article draws on my ethnographic fieldwork to understand what constitutes a disaster and how preexisting social conditions shaped events in the wake of Cyclone Aila in South Asia in May 2009. The people who received relief following this disaster engaged in discrimination, something that has become palpable through the frame of disaster. At the same ins…
Promises of Development, Land Acquisition, and Dispossession
This article examines how the futures promised by the postcolonial state through various projects leave peasants sceptical about a new government project at the rural margin of India. Focusing on a car factory project undertaken in 2006 by the government of the West Bengal Indian state, I explore how a half century-long project of land reforms shaped the dispossession politics of the peasants whose lands have been acquired for a car factory proje…
Ecological Relevance of Traditional Poetry
Hadih Majah is a form of oral poetry in the Aceh region in Indonesia. It articulates the relationship between literature and Nature, people, culture, customs and beliefs. This paper examines the concepts of eco-criticism contained in the Acehnese Literature. The research focuses on natural ecology and the surrounding cultural ecology related to Hadih Majah
After cyclone Aila
This article compares the politics of climate change in the Sundarbans region in Bangladesh and India based on ethnographic fieldwork in four villages and among migrants from these villages in Kolkata and Khulna city by focusing on the long aftermath of cyclone Aila. The comparison highlights different policy options and framings of extreme weather events . Ten years after the cyclone, the aftermath of Aila continues in both regions we studied in…
Indelible Memory Clots
Child abuse is rampant in any society, regardless of its socio-economic or religious background. The purpose of this paper is to summarize how Mahesh Dattani addresses indecent treatment of children and incest abuse in some of his plays - a trauma that victims are often unable to open up to and are forced to cope with throughout their lives. It also presents the mental and physical ordeals faced by several of the characters due to their bitter ch…
La responsabilidad social en los deportistas de alto nivel
Los deportistas realizan a menudo acciones de responsabilidad social para generar un impacto positivo en la sociedad. Este estudio pretende analizar las diferentes características de la responsabilidad social de los deportistas de alto nivel españoles. La investigación también explora los factores que influyen en la toma de decisiones, motivaciones o percepciones que tienen los deportistas sobre la responsabilidad social. Para ello se distribuyó …
On the Horns of a Dilemma’! Climate Change, Forest Conservation and the Marginal People in Indian Sundarbans
The marginal people of the Indian part of Sunderbans (SDB) do now subsist ‘between two fires’ – climate change and climate change adaptation and mitigation policies. They have already felt the fire of climate change in terms of loss of livelihoods, homelessness, and even life harm. They have begun recently to experience the fire of climate change adaptation and mitigation policies. The fallout of this situation, thus, comes in form of mass-exodus…
After cyclone Aila
This article compares the politics of climate change in the Sundarbans region in Bangladesh and India based on ethnographic fieldwork in four villages and among migrants from these villages in Kolkata and Khulna city by focusing on the long aftermath of cyclone Aila. The comparison highlights different policy options and framings of extreme weather events . Ten years after the cyclone, the aftermath of Aila continues in both regions we studied in…
On the Horns of a Dilemma’! Climate Change, Forest Conservation and the Marginal People in Indian Sundarbans
The marginal people of the Indian part of Sunderbans (SDB) do now subsist ‘between two fires’ – climate change and climate change adaptation and mitigation policies. They have already felt the fire of climate change in terms of loss of livelihoods, homelessness, and even life harm. They have begun recently to experience the fire of climate change adaptation and mitigation policies. The fallout of this situation, thus, comes in form of mass-exodus…
On the Horns of a Dilemma’! Climate Change, Forest Conservation and the Marginal People in Indian Sundarbans
The marginal people of the Indian part of Sunderbans (SDB) do now subsist ‘between two fires’ – climate change and climate change adaptation and mitigation policies. They have already felt the fire of climate change in terms of loss of livelihoods, homelessness, and even life harm. They have begun recently to experience the fire of climate change adaptation and mitigation policies. The fallout of this situation, thus, comes in form of mass-exodus…
La responsabilidad social en los deportistas de alto nivel
Los deportistas realizan a menudo acciones de responsabilidad social para generar un impacto positivo en la sociedad. Este estudio pretende analizar las diferentes características de la responsabilidad social de los deportistas de alto nivel españoles. La investigación también explora los factores que influyen en la toma de decisiones, motivaciones o percepciones que tienen los deportistas sobre la responsabilidad social. Para ello se distribuyó …
Indelible Memory Clots
Child abuse is rampant in any society, regardless of its socio-economic or religious background. The purpose of this paper is to summarize how Mahesh Dattani addresses indecent treatment of children and incest abuse in some of his plays - a trauma that victims are often unable to open up to and are forced to cope with throughout their lives. It also presents the mental and physical ordeals faced by several of the characters due to their bitter ch…
Ecological Relevance of Traditional Poetry
Hadih Majah is a form of oral poetry in the Aceh region in Indonesia. It articulates the relationship between literature and Nature, people, culture, customs and beliefs. This paper examines the concepts of eco-criticism contained in the Acehnese Literature. The research focuses on natural ecology and the surrounding cultural ecology related to Hadih Majah
After cyclone Aila
This article compares the politics of climate change in the Sundarbans region in Bangladesh and India based on ethnographic fieldwork in four villages and among migrants from these villages in Kolkata and Khulna city by focusing on the long aftermath of cyclone Aila. The comparison highlights different policy options and framings of extreme weather events . Ten years after the cyclone, the aftermath of Aila continues in both regions we studied in…
Promises of Development, Land Acquisition, and Dispossession
This article examines how the futures promised by the postcolonial state through various projects leave peasants sceptical about a new government project at the rural margin of India. Focusing on a car factory project undertaken in 2006 by the government of the West Bengal Indian state, I explore how a half century-long project of land reforms shaped the dispossession politics of the peasants whose lands have been acquired for a car factory proje…
Disaster, appropriation, and displacement in the Indian Sundarbans
How do we understand a disaster? How do we interpret the aftermath of a disaster, anyway? This article draws on my ethnographic fieldwork to understand what constitutes a disaster and how preexisting social conditions shaped events in the wake of Cyclone Aila in South Asia in May 2009. The people who received relief following this disaster engaged in discrimination, something that has become palpable through the frame of disaster. At the same ins…
Assembling the Urban Frontier
This article examines how migrants from the Indian Sundarbans participate in the making of Kolkata's eastern metropolitan frontier through everyday practices of settlement, labor, social reproduction, and claims‐making. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2018 and 2023 among rural migrants living in an informal settlement on Kolkata's urban edge, it traces how wetlands have been transformed into a densely inhabited and economicall…
Political science (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Livelihood (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Politics (2 works)