Rohan D’souza
Biographic Data
| ID | 4815957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rohan D’souza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rohan |
| FAMILY NAME | D’souza |
| SIGNATURE | D’SOUZA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyoto University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4049-2017 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism
Maternal and neonatal health in Canada’s Black communities: A scoping review of epidemiologic studies
OBJECTIVES: Black-White disparities in maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality highlight health inequities in several settings, yet such racial disparities in Canada are not well defined. Our objective was to conduct a scoping review to identify the extent of epidemiologic evidence assessing Black-White disparities in maternal and neonatal health in Canada. METHODS: We included peer-reviewed epidemiologic studies which measured maternal or …
Rethinking Subalterns, Archives and Histories in the Present: A roundtable
No description supplied
Assessment of census-tract level socioeconomic position as a modifier of the relationship between short-term PM 2.5 exposure and cardiovascular emergency department visits in Missouri
Introduction Ambient particulate matter ≤ 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM 2.5 ) exposure elevates the risk for cardiovascular disease morbidity (CVDM). The aim of this study is to characterise which area-level measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) modify the relationship between PM 2.5 exposure and CVDM in Missouri at the census-tract (CT) level. Methods We use individual level Missouri emergency department (ED) admissions data (n=3 284 956…
Nostalgia to Melancholy: Towards a History of the Environmental History of South Asia in the Anthropocene
Global Environmental Politics: The transformative role of emerging economies
Urpelainen, J. Global Environmental Politics: the transformative role of emerging economies. Columbia University: New York, Chichester, West Sussex. 2022. (pp. 344) Paperback (ISBN 978-0-23120-077-6) $35. In Johannes Urpelainen’s own words, the ‘central argument’ in his recently published monograph Global Environmental Politics is ‘not complicated’. The main claim being that the emerging economies—notably, China and India—with their large populat…
Environmental History of South Asia in the Time of Hindutva
Transformation as praxis: Responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia
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…
Event, Process and Pulse: Resituating Floods in Environmental Histories of South Asia
The notion of the flood in South Asia is no longer solely characterised as the archetypal natural disaster. This perceptual shift, as this article will point out, draws from a conceptual shift within the field of environmental histories of South Asia. In the course of exploring and debating ideas about environmental change, environmental historians have drastically reconsidered the role and impacts of flooding in South Asia through three distinct…
Richard Grove (1955-2020) and the Quest for Interdisciplinary Environmentalism
Richard Hugh Grove, historian, geographer, environmental campaigner and advocate for interdisciplinary environmentalism, passed away in the early hours of the 25th of June in Brighton. He was just
Environmentalism and the Politics of Pre-emption: Reconsidering South Asia’s environmental history in the epoch of the Anthropocene
Green growth: Ideology, political economy and the alternatives
By the 1970s, the idea of development had lost much of its swagger and bite. Environmental degradation, in particular, ballooned into a global anxiety. Soon enough, development enthusiasts found th...
Mischievous Rivers and Evil Shoals: The English East India Company and the Colonial Resource Regime
Increasingly, in the twilight years of Empire, Bengal's rivers were declared to be an indisputable 'water problem'.1 For the official colonial imagination, the delta's fluvial arms were too temperamental and snaked their way across the capacious flood plains only to wastefully empty 'millions of tons' of their watery burden into the Bay of Bengal. Usually a swollen rage during the monsoon and an irrelevant trickle by the winter, such hydrographic…
Framing India's Hydraulic Crisis: The Politics of the Modern Large Dam
For several decades following 1947, the modern large dam in India presented itself as a political conundrum, often voiced in strange, contradictory tones. In an oft-quoted speech in July 1954 Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister (1947-64), likened the large dam to a "modern temple." Later, in a less remembered speech before a gathering of engineers and technocrats in 1958, Nehru, as if in contrition, bemoaned the quest for big dams as a…
War and Society in Colonial India (1807–1945)
Delta’s Integrity and Agrarian Rhythm
This chapter describes the hydraulic volatility and seasonal inundation as elements of geomorphologic process in the case of Orissa Delta, which, in the pre-colonial era, appears to have been harnessed by the local populace rather than sought to be undermined. That is, cultivators in pre-colonial eastern India seemed to have evolved a tradition of flood utilization and dependence. The ecological integrity of the Orissa Delta does not refer to som…
Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India
On the ecological disturbances especially related to floods in Orissa under British rule; a study.
Water in British India: The Making of a ‘Colonial Hydrology’
The environmental history of India has moved on and considerably broadened since the first studies of Indian forestry were published. This essay surveys studies on water in British India, which it has clustered into three themes. While providing a rough description of some of the most important debates and discussions on the issue of colonial rule and its hydraulic interventions, the essay argues that interest on the subject must now attempt to p…
Global Learning
Science, Technology and Society Studies Research Workshop
Rigidity and the Affliction of Capitalist Property: Colonial Land Revenue and the Recasting of Nature
This article will argue that colonial rule had to simultaneously alter both agrarian society and Nature in order to implant the Company zamindari system in deltaic Orissa. This led the colonial government to recast the previously flood-dependent agrarian regime into a flood-vulnerable landscape. Which in turn, I argue, led to the rupture of land, in hitherto unprecedented ways, from its previous ecological weave with the deltaÌs hydrology. In eff…
Canal Irrigation and the Conundrum of Flood Protection: The Failure of the Orissa Scheme of 1863 in Eastern India
Tropical Pioneers: Human Agency and Ecological Change in the Highlands of Sri Lanka 1800-1900
Damming the Mahanadi river: The emergence of multi-purpose river valley development in India (1943-46)
Nehruvian mnnumentalism has often been described as the most significant driver for large dam construction in independent India. Political and popular imagination has, until recently, not only largely hailed the pursuit of multi-purpose river valley development (MPRVD) as heralding the nation into the modern moment, but, more signifecantly, the latter has been celebrated as a part of an apolitical consensus for national development. This article …
Crisis before the Fall: Some Speculations on the Decline of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals
Water in British India: The Making of a ‘Colonial Hydrology’
The environmental history of India has moved on and considerably broadened since the first studies of Indian forestry were published. This essay surveys studies on water in British India, which it has clustered into three themes. While providing a rough description of some of the most important debates and discussions on the issue of colonial rule and its hydraulic interventions, the essay argues that interest on the subject must now attempt to p…
Transformation as praxis: Responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia
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…
Environmentalism and the Politics of Pre-emption: Reconsidering South Asia’s environmental history in the epoch of the Anthropocene
Event, Process and Pulse: Resituating Floods in Environmental Histories of South Asia
The notion of the flood in South Asia is no longer solely characterised as the archetypal natural disaster. This perceptual shift, as this article will point out, draws from a conceptual shift within the field of environmental histories of South Asia. In the course of exploring and debating ideas about environmental change, environmental historians have drastically reconsidered the role and impacts of flooding in South Asia through three distinct…
Framing India's Hydraulic Crisis: The Politics of the Modern Large Dam
For several decades following 1947, the modern large dam in India presented itself as a political conundrum, often voiced in strange, contradictory tones. In an oft-quoted speech in July 1954 Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister (1947-64), likened the large dam to a "modern temple." Later, in a less remembered speech before a gathering of engineers and technocrats in 1958, Nehru, as if in contrition, bemoaned the quest for big dams as a…
Crisis before the Fall: Some Speculations on the Decline of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals
Damming the Mahanadi river: The emergence of multi-purpose river valley development in India (1943-46)
Nehruvian mnnumentalism has often been described as the most significant driver for large dam construction in independent India. Political and popular imagination has, until recently, not only largely hailed the pursuit of multi-purpose river valley development (MPRVD) as heralding the nation into the modern moment, but, more signifecantly, the latter has been celebrated as a part of an apolitical consensus for national development. This article …
Rigidity and the Affliction of Capitalist Property: Colonial Land Revenue and the Recasting of Nature
This article will argue that colonial rule had to simultaneously alter both agrarian society and Nature in order to implant the Company zamindari system in deltaic Orissa. This led the colonial government to recast the previously flood-dependent agrarian regime into a flood-vulnerable landscape. Which in turn, I argue, led to the rupture of land, in hitherto unprecedented ways, from its previous ecological weave with the deltaÌs hydrology. In eff…
Assessment of census-tract level socioeconomic position as a modifier of the relationship between short-term PM 2.5 exposure and cardiovascular emergency department visits in Missouri
Introduction Ambient particulate matter ≤ 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM 2.5 ) exposure elevates the risk for cardiovascular disease morbidity (CVDM). The aim of this study is to characterise which area-level measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) modify the relationship between PM 2.5 exposure and CVDM in Missouri at the census-tract (CT) level. Methods We use individual level Missouri emergency department (ED) admissions data (n=3 284 956…
Environmental History of South Asia in the Time of Hindutva
Canal Irrigation and the Conundrum of Flood Protection: The Failure of the Orissa Scheme of 1863 in Eastern India
Crisis before the Fall: Some Speculations on the Decline of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals
Canal Irrigation and the Conundrum of Flood Protection: The Failure of the Orissa Scheme of 1863 in Eastern India
Tropical Pioneers: Human Agency and Ecological Change in the Highlands of Sri Lanka 1800-1900
Damming the Mahanadi river: The emergence of multi-purpose river valley development in India (1943-46)
Nehruvian mnnumentalism has often been described as the most significant driver for large dam construction in independent India. Political and popular imagination has, until recently, not only largely hailed the pursuit of multi-purpose river valley development (MPRVD) as heralding the nation into the modern moment, but, more signifecantly, the latter has been celebrated as a part of an apolitical consensus for national development. This article …
Science, Technology and Society Studies Research Workshop
Rigidity and the Affliction of Capitalist Property: Colonial Land Revenue and the Recasting of Nature
This article will argue that colonial rule had to simultaneously alter both agrarian society and Nature in order to implant the Company zamindari system in deltaic Orissa. This led the colonial government to recast the previously flood-dependent agrarian regime into a flood-vulnerable landscape. Which in turn, I argue, led to the rupture of land, in hitherto unprecedented ways, from its previous ecological weave with the deltaÌs hydrology. In eff…
Delta’s Integrity and Agrarian Rhythm
This chapter describes the hydraulic volatility and seasonal inundation as elements of geomorphologic process in the case of Orissa Delta, which, in the pre-colonial era, appears to have been harnessed by the local populace rather than sought to be undermined. That is, cultivators in pre-colonial eastern India seemed to have evolved a tradition of flood utilization and dependence. The ecological integrity of the Orissa Delta does not refer to som…
Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India
On the ecological disturbances especially related to floods in Orissa under British rule; a study.
Water in British India: The Making of a ‘Colonial Hydrology’
The environmental history of India has moved on and considerably broadened since the first studies of Indian forestry were published. This essay surveys studies on water in British India, which it has clustered into three themes. While providing a rough description of some of the most important debates and discussions on the issue of colonial rule and its hydraulic interventions, the essay argues that interest on the subject must now attempt to p…
Global Learning
War and Society in Colonial India (1807–1945)
Framing India's Hydraulic Crisis: The Politics of the Modern Large Dam
For several decades following 1947, the modern large dam in India presented itself as a political conundrum, often voiced in strange, contradictory tones. In an oft-quoted speech in July 1954 Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister (1947-64), likened the large dam to a "modern temple." Later, in a less remembered speech before a gathering of engineers and technocrats in 1958, Nehru, as if in contrition, bemoaned the quest for big dams as a…
Mischievous Rivers and Evil Shoals: The English East India Company and the Colonial Resource Regime
Increasingly, in the twilight years of Empire, Bengal's rivers were declared to be an indisputable 'water problem'.1 For the official colonial imagination, the delta's fluvial arms were too temperamental and snaked their way across the capacious flood plains only to wastefully empty 'millions of tons' of their watery burden into the Bay of Bengal. Usually a swollen rage during the monsoon and an irrelevant trickle by the winter, such hydrographic…
Green growth: Ideology, political economy and the alternatives
By the 1970s, the idea of development had lost much of its swagger and bite. Environmental degradation, in particular, ballooned into a global anxiety. Soon enough, development enthusiasts found th...
Environmentalism and the Politics of Pre-emption: Reconsidering South Asia’s environmental history in the epoch of the Anthropocene
Event, Process and Pulse: Resituating Floods in Environmental Histories of South Asia
The notion of the flood in South Asia is no longer solely characterised as the archetypal natural disaster. This perceptual shift, as this article will point out, draws from a conceptual shift within the field of environmental histories of South Asia. In the course of exploring and debating ideas about environmental change, environmental historians have drastically reconsidered the role and impacts of flooding in South Asia through three distinct…
Richard Grove (1955-2020) and the Quest for Interdisciplinary Environmentalism
Richard Hugh Grove, historian, geographer, environmental campaigner and advocate for interdisciplinary environmentalism, passed away in the early hours of the 25th of June in Brighton. He was just
Transformation as praxis: Responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia
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…
Environmental History of South Asia in the Time of Hindutva
Nostalgia to Melancholy: Towards a History of the Environmental History of South Asia in the Anthropocene
Global Environmental Politics: The transformative role of emerging economies
Urpelainen, J. Global Environmental Politics: the transformative role of emerging economies. Columbia University: New York, Chichester, West Sussex. 2022. (pp. 344) Paperback (ISBN 978-0-23120-077-6) $35. In Johannes Urpelainen’s own words, the ‘central argument’ in his recently published monograph Global Environmental Politics is ‘not complicated’. The main claim being that the emerging economies—notably, China and India—with their large populat…
Assessment of census-tract level socioeconomic position as a modifier of the relationship between short-term PM 2.5 exposure and cardiovascular emergency department visits in Missouri
Introduction Ambient particulate matter ≤ 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM 2.5 ) exposure elevates the risk for cardiovascular disease morbidity (CVDM). The aim of this study is to characterise which area-level measures of socioeconomic position (SEP) modify the relationship between PM 2.5 exposure and CVDM in Missouri at the census-tract (CT) level. Methods We use individual level Missouri emergency department (ED) admissions data (n=3 284 956…
Maternal and neonatal health in Canada’s Black communities: A scoping review of epidemiologic studies
OBJECTIVES: Black-White disparities in maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality highlight health inequities in several settings, yet such racial disparities in Canada are not well defined. Our objective was to conduct a scoping review to identify the extent of epidemiologic evidence assessing Black-White disparities in maternal and neonatal health in Canada. METHODS: We included peer-reviewed epidemiologic studies which measured maternal or …
Rethinking Subalterns, Archives and Histories in the Present: A roundtable
No description supplied
Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism
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