Runa Das
Biographic Data
| ID | 652350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Runa Das |
| GIVEN NAMES | Runa |
| FAMILY NAME | Das |
| SIGNATURE | DAS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Roads University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0692-5253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2027 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Toward a Canadian agenda for sustainability transition research
Sustainability transitions research has expanded well beyond its original empirical settings, yet questions remain about how transition perspectives can be meaningfully translated across political economies with distinctive configurations of institutional, geographic, environmental, and historical characteristics. In Canada, these questions are especially salient, as political-economic particularities both complicate the application of transition…
Beyond four walls and a roof
Integrating energy efficiency within housing systems
Repair and retrofit of social and affordable housing (also known as community housing) improves living conditions and reduces residential greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many policies and programs target the condition and energy efficiency of these buildings, often characterized by deferred maintenance. These policies are critical for mitigating climate change and preserving affordable housing, especially for vulnerable people. However, their eff…
Heating up, cooling off
We explored the experiences of summer indoor overheating and summer cooling behaviours in Aotearoa New Zealand using a postal survey. Limited research has engaged with New Zealander's cooling behaviours due to a temperate climate. However, poor thermal dwelling quality and climate warming mean that summer indoor overheating is possibly an emerging problem. The survey was carried out between December 2021 and February 2022, with 641 respondents in…
Equity, diversity and inclusion promises, exclusive practices? How to move towards effective and just energy transitions
Equitable, diverse and inclusive action in a climate emergency is not optional – it is an imperative. Despite the growing rhetoric for inclusive energy systems transformations, many such promises are often empty signifiers and lack substantive action. For energy transitions to be effective and sustainable, they must include, prioritize, and benefit diverse groups, encompassing marginalized communities, underrepresented stakeholders and those disp…
Measuring the use of energy poverty coping strategies and the heat‐or‐eat trade‐off in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
In Bridgewater, a small town in Nova Scotia, around 40% of households face energy poverty. Little research has examined energy poverty in Canada and how it affects the well‐being of households. The aim of this study was to identify the ways households cope with energy poverty across socio‐economic characteristics, paying particular attention to the heat‐or‐eat trade‐off. Data were collected using a community‐based survey on housing, energy use an…
Energy poverty and well-being at the local level
Energy democracy
The intersection of energy transitions and equity is a rapidly expanding area of research and concern. Within this literature, energy democracy and energy justice have arisen as two equity-related concepts sharing both overlap and distinctions, at times leading to conceptual confusion and diverging recommendations on how to address their overlap. Given the importance that research adequately wrestles with the intersection of energy transitions an…
A systems thinking approach to examine local food systems planning through a climate-biodiversity-health lens
Food systems are highly vulnerable to the effects of anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation. At the same time, food systems contribute significantly to the production of greenhouse gases that negatively impact ecosystems. Such a vicious cycle of cause and effect demands a transition to sustainable food systems, and this is best done through integrated planning and policy perspectives that tackle interconnected socioeconomic an…
Using energy vulnerability framework to understand household agency in sustainability transitions
Energy poverty
Exposure to energy poverty is associated with significantly increased likelihood of poor general and mental health. Given the high proportion of Canadian households facing energy poverty, with demonstrated implications for population health, tackling energy poverty is essential for an equitable energy transition and for climate resilience
The Development and Application of a Public Energy Literacy Instrument
Quantifying the prevalence of energy poverty across Canada
Energy poverty is gaining public attention in Canada. Based on statistical analysis of Statistics Canada's 2016 Survey of Household Spending, we estimate that 7–9% of households spent more than 10% of their income on energy expenditures. Households in the Atlantic provinces faced the most energy poverty and highest energy expenditures. Low income, geography, and dwelling conditions were the main predictors of energy poverty. Households in energy …
Ambitious deep energy retrofits of buildings to accelerate the 1.5°C energy transition in Canada
Scientists advise limiting global warming to 1.5°C with substantial actions by 2030. Our viewpoint argues that climate response strategies in Canada have underemphasized and underestimated the potential contribution deep energy retrofits can make to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions, leading to inadequate responses in the building sector, and that Canada can (and should) be ambitious with building retrofits over the next decade. GHG savin…
Canada's Green New Deal
A global movement is underway to harness the power of coordinated state policy to address the significant and interrelated challenges of environmental degradation, climate change, poverty, and energy insecurity. In May 2019 a grassroots coalition comprising a range of civil society groups—scientists, labour unions, Indigenous peoples, and youth—launched the Pact for a Green New Deal (PGND) in Canada, with more than 150 town hall meetings across t…
A review of approaches for monitoring and evaluation of urban climate resilience initiatives
He Named Me Malala
My essay highlights how this (otherwise excellent) documentary film He Named Me Malala suffers from a historical amnesia in failing to connect the historical, local, and global/Western factors that have set the political-social context within which occurred the Malala incident in 2012. This is because the documentary – exposing the voice of a Pakistani female activist as a postcolonial/global agent – does not look into the historical-colonial, Co…
A Post-colonial Analysis of India-United States Nuclear Security
This article uses Edward Said's post-colonial framework to analyze India-United States (US) nuclear security relations in the post-Cold War period as a clash of US Orientalism and India's nuclear sovereignty as a key marker of India's post-colonial essence. Through an analysis of the discourses of India and the US with regard to India's May 1998 detonation and the 123 Agreement, it explores the following questions: To what extent has America's se…
United States-India Nuclear Relations Post-9/11
In this article I explore how the post-9/11 neo-liberal climate of globalization has served as the context within which is articulated masculinist and orientalist forms of nuclear discourses between India and the United States (US). To this extent, I draw from feminist international relations (IR), that security is a gendered phenomenon, to explore the linkages between masculinities and nuclear weapons as underpinning the nuclear security discour…
The United States–India Nuclear Relations after 9/11
In this article, I go beyond the conventional realist arguments of anarchy, national interest, and nuclear security to offer alternative discourses of the same as applied in the context of US–India nuclear relations after 9/11. To this extent, I draw from feminist International Relations, that security is a gendered phenomenon, to explore how the post-9/11 climate of globalization has served as the context within which are articulated masculinist…
Strategic culture, identity and nuclear (in)security in Indian politics
State, Identity and Representations of Nuclear (In)Securities in India and Pakistan
A plethora of theoretical perspectives have explained India and Pakistan's nuclearization. Such arguments, while partially correct, offer little that incorporates how the constitutive nature of states' identities explain their perceptions of (in)securities and nuclear policy choices. In this article, I offer an interpretive analysis of India and Pakistan's nuclear trajectory by exploring the representations of (and the connections between) their …
Strategic Culture, Representations of Nuclear (In)Securities, and the Government of India
In this article, I use Alastair Johnston's concept of strategic culture re-visited through a critical constructivist perspective to analyze the representations of India's strategic culture and nuclear policy choices. In doing so, I explore how the representational practices of (and the mutually-constitutive relation between) India's nationalist identity/Self and its strategic environment, facilitated via its political leaders' ideological lenses,…
The prism of strategic culture and South Asian nuclearization
In this paper, Ken Booth's concept of strategic culture is drawn on to examine India and Pakistan's nuclear policy options/policies. The thrust of the argument is that the perceptions of India and Pakistan's strategic insecurities as interpreted by their security managers, through the prism of their strategic cultures, have, in conjunction with material, domestic and technological factors, defined their nuclear trajectories. In framing the argume…
State, Identity, and Representations of Danger
What explains India's nuclear detonation in May 1998? Some offer a realist, others a nuclear-apartheid, and some an identity-logic explanation for this detonation. My contention in this article is that the nuclear policy choice made by India in 1998, under the BJP government, is a culturally situated one and the logic of (in)securities that the state has used to justify this decision draws upon the ideological lenses of its then policy makers. To…
Energy poverty
Exposure to energy poverty is associated with significantly increased likelihood of poor general and mental health. Given the high proportion of Canadian households facing energy poverty, with demonstrated implications for population health, tackling energy poverty is essential for an equitable energy transition and for climate resilience
Canada's Green New Deal
A global movement is underway to harness the power of coordinated state policy to address the significant and interrelated challenges of environmental degradation, climate change, poverty, and energy insecurity. In May 2019 a grassroots coalition comprising a range of civil society groups—scientists, labour unions, Indigenous peoples, and youth—launched the Pact for a Green New Deal (PGND) in Canada, with more than 150 town hall meetings across t…
A Post-colonial Analysis of India-United States Nuclear Security
This article uses Edward Said's post-colonial framework to analyze India-United States (US) nuclear security relations in the post-Cold War period as a clash of US Orientalism and India's nuclear sovereignty as a key marker of India's post-colonial essence. Through an analysis of the discourses of India and the US with regard to India's May 1998 detonation and the 123 Agreement, it explores the following questions: To what extent has America's se…
Encountering (cultural) nationalism, Islam and gender in the body politic of India
In this article, I analyse how the ideology of Hindutva has been manipulated by the contemporary Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of India to locate an internal enemy along religious lines to support its nationalist agenda, with subsequent implications for gender. Following a brief introduction to the literature of nationalism, with special reference to nationalism as an ‘invented tradition’ and the role of ‘ideology as doxa’, I situate th…
Equity, diversity and inclusion promises, exclusive practices? How to move towards effective and just energy transitions
Equitable, diverse and inclusive action in a climate emergency is not optional – it is an imperative. Despite the growing rhetoric for inclusive energy systems transformations, many such promises are often empty signifiers and lack substantive action. For energy transitions to be effective and sustainable, they must include, prioritize, and benefit diverse groups, encompassing marginalized communities, underrepresented stakeholders and those disp…
Ambitious deep energy retrofits of buildings to accelerate the 1.5°C energy transition in Canada
Scientists advise limiting global warming to 1.5°C with substantial actions by 2030. Our viewpoint argues that climate response strategies in Canada have underemphasized and underestimated the potential contribution deep energy retrofits can make to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions, leading to inadequate responses in the building sector, and that Canada can (and should) be ambitious with building retrofits over the next decade. GHG savin…
The United States–India Nuclear Relations after 9/11
In this article, I go beyond the conventional realist arguments of anarchy, national interest, and nuclear security to offer alternative discourses of the same as applied in the context of US–India nuclear relations after 9/11. To this extent, I draw from feminist International Relations, that security is a gendered phenomenon, to explore how the post-9/11 climate of globalization has served as the context within which are articulated masculinist…
State, Identity and Representations of Nuclear (In)Securities in India and Pakistan
A plethora of theoretical perspectives have explained India and Pakistan's nuclearization. Such arguments, while partially correct, offer little that incorporates how the constitutive nature of states' identities explain their perceptions of (in)securities and nuclear policy choices. In this article, I offer an interpretive analysis of India and Pakistan's nuclear trajectory by exploring the representations of (and the connections between) their …
Encountering Hindutva , interrogating religious nationalism and (En)gendering a Hindu patriarchy in India's nuclear policies
This article explores the consequences of a gendered nationalism under India's recent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government that has relied on the discourses of Hindu women's violence and protection as elements of its discursive arsenal to pursue nuclearization as an aggressive policy of the Indian state. To this extent, the article interrogates a discursive relationship between a cultural patriarchy, its quest for Hindu nationalism and gender …
Using energy vulnerability framework to understand household agency in sustainability transitions
United States-India Nuclear Relations Post-9/11
In this article I explore how the post-9/11 neo-liberal climate of globalization has served as the context within which is articulated masculinist and orientalist forms of nuclear discourses between India and the United States (US). To this extent, I draw from feminist international relations (IR), that security is a gendered phenomenon, to explore the linkages between masculinities and nuclear weapons as underpinning the nuclear security discour…
Energy democracy
The intersection of energy transitions and equity is a rapidly expanding area of research and concern. Within this literature, energy democracy and energy justice have arisen as two equity-related concepts sharing both overlap and distinctions, at times leading to conceptual confusion and diverging recommendations on how to address their overlap. Given the importance that research adequately wrestles with the intersection of energy transitions an…
Quantifying the prevalence of energy poverty across Canada
Energy poverty is gaining public attention in Canada. Based on statistical analysis of Statistics Canada's 2016 Survey of Household Spending, we estimate that 7–9% of households spent more than 10% of their income on energy expenditures. Households in the Atlantic provinces faced the most energy poverty and highest energy expenditures. Low income, geography, and dwelling conditions were the main predictors of energy poverty. Households in energy …
Nation, Gender and Representations of (In)Securities in Indian Politics
This article examines the relationship between gender, nations and nationalisms vis-a-vis the Indian state's nationalist identity and perceptions of (in)security. It explores how the postcolonial Indian state's project of nation-building — reflective of a western secular-modern identity (under the Congress Party) and a Hindutva-dominated identity (under the BJP) — incorporates gender, with continuities and discontinuities, to articulate divergent…
Integrating energy efficiency within housing systems
Repair and retrofit of social and affordable housing (also known as community housing) improves living conditions and reduces residential greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many policies and programs target the condition and energy efficiency of these buildings, often characterized by deferred maintenance. These policies are critical for mitigating climate change and preserving affordable housing, especially for vulnerable people. However, their eff…
Measuring the use of energy poverty coping strategies and the heat‐or‐eat trade‐off in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
In Bridgewater, a small town in Nova Scotia, around 40% of households face energy poverty. Little research has examined energy poverty in Canada and how it affects the well‐being of households. The aim of this study was to identify the ways households cope with energy poverty across socio‐economic characteristics, paying particular attention to the heat‐or‐eat trade‐off. Data were collected using a community‐based survey on housing, energy use an…
Energy poverty and well-being at the local level
He Named Me Malala
My essay highlights how this (otherwise excellent) documentary film He Named Me Malala suffers from a historical amnesia in failing to connect the historical, local, and global/Western factors that have set the political-social context within which occurred the Malala incident in 2012. This is because the documentary – exposing the voice of a Pakistani female activist as a postcolonial/global agent – does not look into the historical-colonial, Co…
Strategic culture, identity and nuclear (in)security in Indian politics
The prism of strategic culture and South Asian nuclearization
In this paper, Ken Booth's concept of strategic culture is drawn on to examine India and Pakistan's nuclear policy options/policies. The thrust of the argument is that the perceptions of India and Pakistan's strategic insecurities as interpreted by their security managers, through the prism of their strategic cultures, have, in conjunction with material, domestic and technological factors, defined their nuclear trajectories. In framing the argume…
Broadening the security paradigm
Postcolonial (in)securities, the bjp and the politics of Hindutva
(2003). Postcolonial (in)securities, the bjp and the politics of Hindutva: Broadening the security paradigm between the realist and anti-nuclear/peace groups in India. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 77-96
Engendering Post-Colonial Nuclear Policies Through the Lens of Hindutva
Research Article| August 01 2002 Engendering Post-Colonial Nuclear Policies Through the Lens of Hindutva: Rethinking the Security Paradigm of India Runa Das Runa Das Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2002) 22 (1-2): 76–89. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-22-1-2-76 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citatio…
Engendering Post-Colonial Nuclear Policies Through the Lens of Hindutva
Research Article| August 01 2002 Engendering Post-Colonial Nuclear Policies Through the Lens of Hindutva: Rethinking the Security Paradigm of India Runa Das Runa Das Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2002) 22 (1-2): 76–89. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-22-1-2-76 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citatio…
Postcolonial (in)securities, the bjp and the politics of Hindutva
(2003). Postcolonial (in)securities, the bjp and the politics of Hindutva: Broadening the security paradigm between the realist and anti-nuclear/peace groups in India. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 77-96
Encountering (cultural) nationalism, Islam and gender in the body politic of India
In this article, I analyse how the ideology of Hindutva has been manipulated by the contemporary Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of India to locate an internal enemy along religious lines to support its nationalist agenda, with subsequent implications for gender. Following a brief introduction to the literature of nationalism, with special reference to nationalism as an ‘invented tradition’ and the role of ‘ideology as doxa’, I situate th…
Revisiting (In)-Security as the Cultural Production of Danger
This article presents an analytical hybrid of realism and critical social constructivism as its theoretical framework and the concept of postcolonial insecurity as an interpretation of politics, to explore the process through which the rise of Hindu nationalism in India may have been utilized by the Indian state, under the recent Hindu Right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, to justify the country's nuclearization. To this extent, I analys…
Encountering Hindutva , interrogating religious nationalism and (En)gendering a Hindu patriarchy in India's nuclear policies
This article explores the consequences of a gendered nationalism under India's recent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government that has relied on the discourses of Hindu women's violence and protection as elements of its discursive arsenal to pursue nuclearization as an aggressive policy of the Indian state. To this extent, the article interrogates a discursive relationship between a cultural patriarchy, its quest for Hindu nationalism and gender …
Broadening the security paradigm
State, Identity, and Representations of Danger
What explains India's nuclear detonation in May 1998? Some offer a realist, others a nuclear-apartheid, and some an identity-logic explanation for this detonation. My contention in this article is that the nuclear policy choice made by India in 1998, under the BJP government, is a culturally situated one and the logic of (in)securities that the state has used to justify this decision draws upon the ideological lenses of its then policy makers. To…
Nation, Gender and Representations of (In)Securities in Indian Politics
This article examines the relationship between gender, nations and nationalisms vis-a-vis the Indian state's nationalist identity and perceptions of (in)security. It explores how the postcolonial Indian state's project of nation-building — reflective of a western secular-modern identity (under the Congress Party) and a Hindutva-dominated identity (under the BJP) — incorporates gender, with continuities and discontinuities, to articulate divergent…
Strategic Culture, Representations of Nuclear (In)Securities, and the Government of India
In this article, I use Alastair Johnston's concept of strategic culture re-visited through a critical constructivist perspective to analyze the representations of India's strategic culture and nuclear policy choices. In doing so, I explore how the representational practices of (and the mutually-constitutive relation between) India's nationalist identity/Self and its strategic environment, facilitated via its political leaders' ideological lenses,…
The prism of strategic culture and South Asian nuclearization
In this paper, Ken Booth's concept of strategic culture is drawn on to examine India and Pakistan's nuclear policy options/policies. The thrust of the argument is that the perceptions of India and Pakistan's strategic insecurities as interpreted by their security managers, through the prism of their strategic cultures, have, in conjunction with material, domestic and technological factors, defined their nuclear trajectories. In framing the argume…
Strategic culture, identity and nuclear (in)security in Indian politics
State, Identity and Representations of Nuclear (In)Securities in India and Pakistan
A plethora of theoretical perspectives have explained India and Pakistan's nuclearization. Such arguments, while partially correct, offer little that incorporates how the constitutive nature of states' identities explain their perceptions of (in)securities and nuclear policy choices. In this article, I offer an interpretive analysis of India and Pakistan's nuclear trajectory by exploring the representations of (and the connections between) their …
The United States–India Nuclear Relations after 9/11
In this article, I go beyond the conventional realist arguments of anarchy, national interest, and nuclear security to offer alternative discourses of the same as applied in the context of US–India nuclear relations after 9/11. To this extent, I draw from feminist International Relations, that security is a gendered phenomenon, to explore how the post-9/11 climate of globalization has served as the context within which are articulated masculinist…
United States-India Nuclear Relations Post-9/11
In this article I explore how the post-9/11 neo-liberal climate of globalization has served as the context within which is articulated masculinist and orientalist forms of nuclear discourses between India and the United States (US). To this extent, I draw from feminist international relations (IR), that security is a gendered phenomenon, to explore the linkages between masculinities and nuclear weapons as underpinning the nuclear security discour…
He Named Me Malala
My essay highlights how this (otherwise excellent) documentary film He Named Me Malala suffers from a historical amnesia in failing to connect the historical, local, and global/Western factors that have set the political-social context within which occurred the Malala incident in 2012. This is because the documentary – exposing the voice of a Pakistani female activist as a postcolonial/global agent – does not look into the historical-colonial, Co…
A Post-colonial Analysis of India-United States Nuclear Security
This article uses Edward Said's post-colonial framework to analyze India-United States (US) nuclear security relations in the post-Cold War period as a clash of US Orientalism and India's nuclear sovereignty as a key marker of India's post-colonial essence. Through an analysis of the discourses of India and the US with regard to India's May 1998 detonation and the 123 Agreement, it explores the following questions: To what extent has America's se…
A review of approaches for monitoring and evaluation of urban climate resilience initiatives
Canada's Green New Deal
A global movement is underway to harness the power of coordinated state policy to address the significant and interrelated challenges of environmental degradation, climate change, poverty, and energy insecurity. In May 2019 a grassroots coalition comprising a range of civil society groups—scientists, labour unions, Indigenous peoples, and youth—launched the Pact for a Green New Deal (PGND) in Canada, with more than 150 town hall meetings across t…
Ambitious deep energy retrofits of buildings to accelerate the 1.5°C energy transition in Canada
Scientists advise limiting global warming to 1.5°C with substantial actions by 2030. Our viewpoint argues that climate response strategies in Canada have underemphasized and underestimated the potential contribution deep energy retrofits can make to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions, leading to inadequate responses in the building sector, and that Canada can (and should) be ambitious with building retrofits over the next decade. GHG savin…
The Development and Application of a Public Energy Literacy Instrument
Quantifying the prevalence of energy poverty across Canada
Energy poverty is gaining public attention in Canada. Based on statistical analysis of Statistics Canada's 2016 Survey of Household Spending, we estimate that 7–9% of households spent more than 10% of their income on energy expenditures. Households in the Atlantic provinces faced the most energy poverty and highest energy expenditures. Low income, geography, and dwelling conditions were the main predictors of energy poverty. Households in energy …
Energy poverty
Exposure to energy poverty is associated with significantly increased likelihood of poor general and mental health. Given the high proportion of Canadian households facing energy poverty, with demonstrated implications for population health, tackling energy poverty is essential for an equitable energy transition and for climate resilience
Energy poverty and well-being at the local level
Energy democracy
The intersection of energy transitions and equity is a rapidly expanding area of research and concern. Within this literature, energy democracy and energy justice have arisen as two equity-related concepts sharing both overlap and distinctions, at times leading to conceptual confusion and diverging recommendations on how to address their overlap. Given the importance that research adequately wrestles with the intersection of energy transitions an…
A systems thinking approach to examine local food systems planning through a climate-biodiversity-health lens
Food systems are highly vulnerable to the effects of anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation. At the same time, food systems contribute significantly to the production of greenhouse gases that negatively impact ecosystems. Such a vicious cycle of cause and effect demands a transition to sustainable food systems, and this is best done through integrated planning and policy perspectives that tackle interconnected socioeconomic an…
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