Aparajita De
Biographic Data
| ID | 3454575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aparajita De |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aparajita |
| FAMILY NAME | De |
| SIGNATURE | DE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7725-9932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mediated Pedagogies
Characterization of shifting cultivation, trends, and diversification of livelihood patterns
Shifting cultivation is an agriculture system used traditionally and the predominant land use in the mountainous regions of many parts of the world since time immemorial. Recently, there has been a change in the traditional shifting cultivation practice. The purpose of the current study is to map the spatial distribution of the shifting cultivation plots in forest villages of Barak Valley, Assam, Northeast India, document the socio-economic profi…
An ethnobotanical study on the wild edible plants used by forest dwellers in Yangoupokpi Lokchao Wildlife Sanctuary, Manipur, India
Background: The study documented the wild edible plants (WEPs) used by forest dwellers in the Yangoupokpi Lokchao Wildlife Sanctuary (YLWLS), Manipur, India. The inhabitants of YLWLS belong to the Thadou, Meitei, and Maring communities. Methods: An ethnobotanical survey was carried out from March 2018 to February 2020. The elderly local people, local healers, forest staff, and vendors in local markets participated in the survey. The respondents w…
Convivial spaces
The chapter explores how Hindus and Muslims in the walled city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat evolve practices that manage the challenges of living together with religious differences and identities. Historically, the walled city, popularly known as Kot, has been a much-fragmented space ruptured along lines of religion, caste, and occupation, with its most visible fault lines being along the Hindu-Muslim divide. The spatial formation of neighbourhoods a…
Spatialisation of selves
Sporting with gender
My essay explores how globalization has reconfigured the links between sport, nationalism, and gender in the production and dissemination of identity and belonging at home and in the Indian diaspora. I suggest that, sports, especially cricket and hockey have become critically cosmopolitan in being rooted to local histories and their global echoes. Gender, in this matrix of sport and culture, interestingly reconfigures sports, as it helps reinforc…
Reimagining impossible worlds
What's In a Name? Tropes of Belonging and Identity in The Namesake
(2007). What's In a Name? Tropes of Belonging and Identity in The Namesake. South Asian Review: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 182-200
Sporting with gender
My essay explores how globalization has reconfigured the links between sport, nationalism, and gender in the production and dissemination of identity and belonging at home and in the Indian diaspora. I suggest that, sports, especially cricket and hockey have become critically cosmopolitan in being rooted to local histories and their global echoes. Gender, in this matrix of sport and culture, interestingly reconfigures sports, as it helps reinforc…
Reimagining impossible worlds
What's In a Name? Tropes of Belonging and Identity in The Namesake
(2007). What's In a Name? Tropes of Belonging and Identity in The Namesake. South Asian Review: Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 182-200
Reimagining impossible worlds
Sporting with gender
My essay explores how globalization has reconfigured the links between sport, nationalism, and gender in the production and dissemination of identity and belonging at home and in the Indian diaspora. I suggest that, sports, especially cricket and hockey have become critically cosmopolitan in being rooted to local histories and their global echoes. Gender, in this matrix of sport and culture, interestingly reconfigures sports, as it helps reinforc…
Spatialisation of selves
Convivial spaces
The chapter explores how Hindus and Muslims in the walled city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat evolve practices that manage the challenges of living together with religious differences and identities. Historically, the walled city, popularly known as Kot, has been a much-fragmented space ruptured along lines of religion, caste, and occupation, with its most visible fault lines being along the Hindu-Muslim divide. The spatial formation of neighbourhoods a…
An ethnobotanical study on the wild edible plants used by forest dwellers in Yangoupokpi Lokchao Wildlife Sanctuary, Manipur, India
Background: The study documented the wild edible plants (WEPs) used by forest dwellers in the Yangoupokpi Lokchao Wildlife Sanctuary (YLWLS), Manipur, India. The inhabitants of YLWLS belong to the Thadou, Meitei, and Maring communities. Methods: An ethnobotanical survey was carried out from March 2018 to February 2020. The elderly local people, local healers, forest staff, and vendors in local markets participated in the survey. The respondents w…
Characterization of shifting cultivation, trends, and diversification of livelihood patterns
Shifting cultivation is an agriculture system used traditionally and the predominant land use in the mountainous regions of many parts of the world since time immemorial. Recently, there has been a change in the traditional shifting cultivation practice. The purpose of the current study is to map the spatial distribution of the shifting cultivation plots in forest villages of Barak Valley, Assam, Northeast India, document the socio-economic profi…
Mediated Pedagogies
Geography (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (2 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (2 works) · Agriculture (1 work) · Agroforestry (1 work)