Curriculum Vitae: GOPA SAMANTA

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1 Curriculum Vitae: GOPA SAMANTA PRINCIPAL AREA OF INTERESTS The interface of humans and the environment specificallyurban development and governance, Rural-Urban Interaction, Mobility, Gender and Space, Microfinance. Membership of Professional Societies Geographical Society of India; Indian National Cartographic Association; Institute of Indian Geographers; National Association of Geographers, India; Institute of Landscape, Ecology & Ekistics; Akhil Bharat Bhubidya O ParibeshSamiti; Indian Association of Women's Studies, Deccan Geographical Society, Association of Hill Geographers, Indian Geographical Foundation all life members. Publications Books: 2 Academic Articles: 34 Review Article: 2 Working paper: 1 Popular Magazine Articles: 5 Research Projects Completed 4 (Australia India Institute, Ford Foundation, ICSSR and UGC) Ongoing 1 (National Agency of France) Submitted 2 (ICSSR and AusAID) List of Research Projects Completed 1. Women s self-help groups, poverty alleviation and women s empowerment: A case study of Burdwan, funded by Indian Council of Social Science research, New Delhi. 2. Gender mapping of Burdwan district, West Bengal, funded by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. 3. The globalizing state, public services and the new governance of urban local communities in India: A case study of West Bengal, funded byford Foundation, New Delhi. 4. Whose empowerment? A study of micro-finance institution and financial inclusion of India s rural women, funded byaustralia India Institute, Canberra.

2 Ongoing Research Project 1. Subaltern Urbanization in India, funded by National Agency of France, Paris DETAILS OF PUBLICATIONS List of Publications Books 1. Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia, forthcoming from Yale University Press in May West Bengal: Geo-Spatial Issues (Edited Volume), Published by the University of Burdwan, Published in International Journal 1. Like the Drifting Grains of Sand : Vulnerability, Security and Adjustment by Communities in the Charlands of the Damodar river, India, Jointly with DrKuntalaLahiri-Dutt, Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. XXX, No. 2, August 2007, pp Constructing Social Capital: Selp-help Groups and Rural Women s Development in India, Jointly with DrKuntalaLahiri-Dutt, Geographical Research, Vol. 44, No. 3, September 2006 pp , Australia. 3. Endengering Urban Environmental Management: Results from a Study of Women Councillors Running a Town in India, jointly with KuntalaLahiri-Dutt, PallabiSil and ChhandaKarfa in Women and Environments International Magazine, No. 70/71, Spring 2006, pp.42-46, Netherland. 4. Fleeting Land, Fleeting People: Bangladeshi Women in a Charland Environment in Lower Bengal, India, Jointly with DrKuntalaLahiri-Dutt in Asia Pacific Migration Journal. Vol. 13, No. 4, 2004, pp , Quezon City, Philippines. 5. Urban informal sector as a mirror of rural-urban interaction: Focus on the Rickshaw Pullers, Burdwan, India, Jointly with DrKuntalaLahiri-Dutt in Oriental Geographer, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2004, pp , Geographical Society of Dhaka, Bangladesh. 6. 'State Initiatives for the Empowerment of Women of Rural Communities', Jointly with DrKuntalaLahiri-Dutt in Community Development Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2, April, 2002, pp , U.K. National Level Journal Publications 1. Urban Mobilities and the Cycle Rickshaw Seminar, Vol.636, 2012, pp

3 2. The Crisis of Urban Social Environment: A Case of Crime in Raniganj Town, West Bengal jointly with SubhajitGhatak, Hill Geographer, Vol.26, No. 1 & 2, 2010, PP 5o Gender and Agricultural Work: Livelihood Crises of Women Agricultural Workers in Hooghly District jointly with ShrabanaSengupta, Annals, National Association of Geographers India, Vol.30, No. 2, 2010, PP Water-Population Interface: An Environmental Assessment of Hooghly-Chinsurah Municipality jointly with Malay Ganguli, Practising Geographer, Journal of Indian Geographical Foundation, Vol. 14, No 1, Summer 2010, pp The Globalizing State, Public Services and the New Governance of Urban Local Communities in India: Colloquium Vikalpa, jointly with NavdeepMathur and others, The journal of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Vol.35, No. 1, January-March 2010, pp Livelihoods and Empowerment of Women Home Based Workers: A Case Study of Babnan Village of Hooghly District in West Bengal jointly with ShrabanaSengupta, Practising Geographer, Journal of Indian Geographical Foundation, Vol. 13, No 1, September 2008, pp Microfinance and Women: Gender Issues of Poverty Alleviation and Empowerment, The Microfinance Review, Vol. 1, No., 2009, pp Geographical Analysis of Backwardness and Poverty: A Case Study of Birbhum District jointly with KunalChakraborty in Practising Geographer, Journal of Indian Geographical Foundation, Vol. 12, September 2008, pp Uncertain Livelihoods: Survival Strategies in Charland Environments in India, Jointly with DrKuntalaLahiri-Dutt in International Journal of Environment and Development. Vol. 2, No. 2, 2005, pp , New Delhi, India. 10. Gender disparity in literacy in West Bengal, The Deccan Geographer, Vol. 41, No.1, 2003, Pune, pp 'Million Cities of India: A Review of 2001 Census Reports', jointly with DrKuntalaLahiri-Dutt, Urban India, Volume 21, Number 2, 2001, pp , Delhi. 12. 'Mapping Levels of Development of Gram Panchayats: Burdwan Region', Jointly with DrKuntalaLahiri-Dutt in Cartography in Action: Indian Cartographer, Volume 18, 1998, Journal of the Indian National Cartographic Association, pp 'Rural-Urban Linkage: A Study of the Town Bus Service Around Burdwan, West Bengal', Jointly with DrKuntalaLahiri-Dutt in Journal of the Indian Geographical Foundation, Kolkata, Vol. 3, Winter, 1996, pp 'Intra-Urban Variation in the Quality of Population: A Case Study of Burdwan', Indian Journal of Landscape Systems and Ecological Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1996, Kolkata, pp 'An Analysis of the Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Large Villages of Eastern Burdwan District', Geographical Review of India, Vol. 58, No. 1, 1996, Kolkata, pp

4 16. 'Spatial Pattern of Growth Potential: Burdwan and Large Villages of Surrounding Region', Indian Journal of Landscape Systems and Ecological Studies, Vol. 3, Winter, 1996, Kolkata, pp 'Gram SaharerParasparikAdanProdan: Barddhaman O Tar SanglagnaGramanchalerArthanititeEktiAnusandhan', Visva- Veeksha, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1995, Santiniketan, pp Book Chapters 1. Home-making and Regrounding: Lives of Bangladeshi on the DamodarCharlands of Lower Bengal jointly with KuntalaLahiri-Dutt, in R. Ganguly-Scrace and K. Lahiri- Dutt (eds) Rethinking Displacement: Asia Pacific Perspectives, Ashgate, UK, In Between Rural and Urban: Challenges for Governance of Non-recognized Urban Territories in N.Jana et al. (eds) West Bengal: Geo-Spatial Issues,Published by the University of Burdwan, Unfolding the debates around women s empowerment in development discourse in K. K. Bag (ed) Changing Society, Culture and Its Impact on People, Rupasi Bangla Publications, Kolkata, 2012, pp Gender, Poverty and Microfinance: Interrogating Women s SHGs in West Bengal in S. Raju and K. Lahiri-Dutt (eds) Doing Gender Doing Geography, Routledge, New Delhi, 2011, pp NREGA and Rural Poverty in BhabeshSen and MitaliChinara (eds) Economic Development and Poverty in India, New Century Publications, New Delhi, 2011, pp Poverty Gender and Reproductive Health: A case Study of Self-Help Groups in Burdwan, West Bengal, in Sujit Kumar Paul (ed) Poverty, Health and Development, 2009, Commonwealth Publishers Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, pp Marginal Lives in Marginal Lands: Livelihood Strategies of Women-Headed, Immigrant Households in the Charlands of the Damodar, West Bengal Jointly with DrKuntalaLahiri-Dutt in Sumi Krishna (ed) Women's Livelihood Rights: Recasting Citizenship for Development, September 2007, Sage-India Publications, New Delhi. 8. Close Rural-Urban Interactions in India: Evidences from Burdwan and its Surrounding Region, West Bengal Jointly with DrKuntalaLahiri-Dutt in K. R. Gupta (ed) Urban Development Debates in the New Millennium: Studies in Revisited Theories and Redefined Praxes Vol. 2, 2004, Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi. 9. 'Transport Network and Rural Development in Burdwan District, Jointly with DrKuntalaLahiri-Dutt in B. C. Vaidya (ed) Geography of Transport and Development in India, 2003, Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi. 10. 'Barddhaman: Gram O SaharerUnnyayanEbongParosparikJogsutra', Barddhaman Charcha, 2001, Burdwan, pp

5 11. 'Barddhamaner Bara Gram O Ganja: Ekti Parjalochana', in G. Konar(ed.) Barddhaman Samagra, Vol. 1, Dey Book Store, 1999, Kolkata. Visiting Fellow 1. Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, TheAustralianNationalUniversity, Canberra, French Institute of Pondicherry, Working Paper 1. Uncertain Livelihoods: Survival Strategies of Women and Men in Charland Environments in India, Jointly with DrKuntalaLahiri-Dutt, Working Paper, 2005, Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra. Articles in Bengali Magazines 1. ChareritihasSmaranika, Barddhaman Utsab, Barddhaman ZelayNarirArtha-SamajikAbasthan: 2001 SalerJanasnkhabhittikParjalochana, Smaranika, Barddhaman Utsab, Bipannata O SuraksharAnnyaMatra: DamodarerCharbasirAbhignata- BhittikPratibedan,Smaranika, Barddhaman Utsab, BipannaAstitterMukhomukhi: Damodarercharbasi, AvijanSamaiki, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2004, pp DaridryaDurikaraneNari: BardhamanerGraminNariO SishuBikashKarmanichay, AvijanSamaiki, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2001, pp Travel article 1. Exotic and Isolated, The Sunday Statesman, 26 th August BristisnataSamsingh - Suntalekhola, Anya Kothao, July 2009 pp Dwitiabar Europe, HatebazarePatrika (Sharadia Volume), October 2011, pp BarshaJakhanBandhu Orbit (Yearly Magazine of the Dept. of Geography, BU), May 2012, pp Invited Lectures in Seminars and Workshops 1. Key Note Address in the Seminar organized by IIPA Burdwan Branch, The University of Burdwan on Local Governance and Women s Empowerment, 2 nd June

6 2. Special Lecture on Dancing with the River:Hybrid Environments and Livelihoods beyond the State in South Asia, at School of Environmental Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, 18 th April Special Lecture on Interrogating the Dialogues on Resource and Environment through Gender Lens, in the Seminar on Resource Utilization in India: Environmental Impacts and Sustainable Development, March Special Lecture on Women in India s Development Discourse: In between Exclusion and Inclusion, in the Seminar on Changing Society, Culture and its Impacts on People, organized by SambhuNath College, Labhpur, Birbhum, th February Special lecture on Dancing with the River: Hybrid Landscapes and Livelihoods on Charlands in Deltaic Bengal, India, in the Seminar on Resource Management and Sustainable Development, organized by East Calcutta Girls College, Kolkata, th September Special lecture on Women and Cities in India: Policies and Actions, in the workshop on Women and Cities, organized by The Bordeaux Council, 16 th September Sole Resource Person in Two-day State Level Workshop on Microfinance and Women s Empowerment organized by MahilaSamakhya, Uttar Pradesh, on th October, 2009, Lucknow, U.P. 8. Women Empowerment in Seminar organized by KatwaMahavidyalaya, 5 th January, Special Lecture 1. Special Lecture on Development and Women in India in Academic Staff College, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal on 16 th (85 th Orientation Programme) and 18 th (86 th Orientation Programme) June Special Lecture on Women and Development in Academic Staff College, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal on 13 th March 2012 (84 th Orientation Programme). 3. Special Lecture on Women s Empowerment: Observations from Practice in Academic Staff College, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal on 8th February (Refresher Course in Women s Studies) 4. Special Lecture on Women and Water in Academic Staff College, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal on 27 th November (20 th Refresher Course in Environmental Science) 5. Special Lecture on Gender Issues in Environment in Academic Staff College, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal on 26 th November (20 th Refresher Course in Environmental Science) 6. Special Lecture on Gender Issues in Resource Management in Academic Staff College, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal on 1 st September (Environmental Studies RC) 7. Special Lecture on Gender Issues in Development in Academic Staff College, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal on 23 rd July 2011(Orientation Programme). 6

7 8. Special Lecture on Women s Empowerment in Academic Staff College, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal on 20 th May 2011 (Orientation Programme). 9. Special Lecture on Gender Mainstreaming in Academic Staff College, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal on 27 th and 28 th January 2011 (Orientation Programme). 10. Special Lecture on Women and Environment in AcademicStaffCollege, TheUniversity of Burdwan, West Bengal on 17 th November (Environmental Studies RC) Organizing Courses 1. Three-Week Refresher Course on Natural Resources, Environmental management and Social Justice at Academic Staff College, The University of Burdwan, 27 th August to 16 th September, Organizing Seminar, Conference and Workshop 1. International Conference on Subversive niches: Tracking mobility studies and transitions in India and Bangladesh, Funded by Eindhoven Technology University, Netherland, in Jadavpur University Kolkata on December 28-29, InternationalSeminar on Women and Microfinance: Financial Inclusion and Empowerment of Rural Women in India, Funded by Australia India Institute, Australia in the University of Burdwan on 26 th November National Seminar on The Globalizing State, Public Services and the New Governance of Urban Local Communities in India, jointly with IIM Ahmedabad and funded by Ford Foundation, New Delhi, in The University of Burdwan on 10 th July One Day Seminar on Introducing Gender in Geographyin the Department of Geography, The University of Burdwan on 21 st December, International Conference on Environment, Resource and Regional Development, in the Department of Geography, TheUniversity of Burdwan on 8 th and 9 th March, Chairing Session 1. Co-Chaired - Urban Society, Economy and Geography in 34 th Indian Geography Congress, Organized by Department of Geography, Patna University, November 2-4, Technical Session IV in the National Seminar on Resource Utilization in India: Environmental Impacts and Sustainable Development, th March Organized by Tarakeswar Degree College, Tarakeswar. 3. Indigenous Environmental Resources, Biodiversity and Management in the International Conferenceon Mother Earth: Save it for Future Generation, 13 th to 158 th February 2010, Organized by the Dept. of Environmental Science, The University of Burdwan. 7

8 Papers Presented 1. Changing the History and Growth from Below: New Urbanization in West Bengal 34 th Indian Geography Congress, Organized by Department of Geography, Patna University, November 2-4, Challenges of Governing the Ungovernable: A Case for Census Towns in West Bengal National Seminar on Urbanization Trends and Environmental ConcernOrganized by Centre for Urban Economic Studies, Calcutta University, Kolkata, August 16-17, Urban Governance Reforms and Basic Services in West Bengal 11 th Asian Urbanization Conferenceorganized by the Department of Geography, Osmania University, Hyderabad, December 11-13, From Geography of Transport and Migration to Geography of Mobilities 33 rd Indian Geography Congress held at the Department of Geography, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, November 11-13, Dancing with the River: Hybrid Landscapes and Livelihoods on Charlands in Deltaic Bengal, India Seminar on Resource Management and Sustainable Development, organized by East Calcutta Girls College, Kolkata, th September Is microfinance working for women in India: Exploring the underbelly of the magic bullet Tenth Women in Asia Conference held at Australian National University, Canberra, September 29 October 1, Negotiating Gendered Urban Space: Experiences of Women across Classes in the cities of Bengal International Conference on Masculine/Feminine: New Issues for Geography, organized by CNRS, Bordeaux University 3, Bordeaux, France, September 16 18, The Globalizing State, Public Services, and The New Governance of Urban Local Communities in West Bengal 10th July 2010, Seminar organized by Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and The University of Burdwan, Burdwan. 9. Rickshaw and rickshaw pullers: The issues of urban transport and livelihoods for the poor in Bengal, Workshop on Mobility and Environment organized by Rachel Carson Centre, LudwigMaximilianUniversity, Munich, Germany, 3-5 June Poverty, Rural Development and Livelihood Practices: A Study of Selected Villages in Mohammad Bazar Block of Western Birbhum, International Conference on Environment, Resource and Regional Development, Organized by the Dept. of Geography, TheUniversity of Burdwan. 11. Microfinance and Changing Women s Space: A Case Study from West Bengal, International Seminar on Contextualizing Geographical Approaches to Studying Gender in Asia, 3-5 th March 2010, Organized by IGU commission on Gender and Geography in Collaboration with the Dept. of Geography, University of Delhi and the College of Asia and the Pacific, AustralianNationalUniversity. 8

9 12. The Case for West Bengal State, National Conference onthe Globalizing State, Public Services, and The New Governance of Urban Local Communities, 3-5th December 2009, Organised by Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. 13. Microfinance and Women: Gender Issues of Poverty Alleviation and Empowerment, National seminar on Microfinance: Issues and Challenges, th July 2009, Organised by Bankers Institute of Rural Development, Lucknow. 14. The Globalising State, Public Services and the New Governance of Urban Local Communities in India March 2009, Workshop organised by The IIM, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad. 15. Urban Poverty Eradication through Microfinance: A Case Study of Women Self Help Groups in Burdwan Town, West Bengal National Seminar on Urban Governance & Need for Information System, March, 2009, Organised by The Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. 16. Urban Crime and the problem of its Governance: A case Study of Raniganj Town in West Bengal, National Seminar on Urban Governance & Need for Information System, March, 2009, Organised by The Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. 17. Home Based Work and Livelihoods of Rural Poor Women from Polba Block of Hooghly District, Seminar on Contemporary Issues in Geography27-28 February, 2009, Organized by the Indian Geographical Foundation, Kolkata 18. Governance Reforms of Service Delivery: The Case of Health in Burdwan, West Bengal, National Workshop on The Globalizing State, Public Services and the New Governance of Urban Local Communities in India, August, 2008, Organized by Public Systems Group, IIM, Ahmedabad. 19. Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) and women s livelihoods: A case study of Burdwan, West Bengal, National Seminar on Human Development Issues, September, 2007, Organized by Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. 20. Women and Reproductive Health: A case Study of Self-Help Groups, National Seminar on Poverty, Health and Development,10-11 March, 2007, Organized bypallicharcha Kendra, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan. 21. Burdwan: From small district headquarter to city, Seminar on Area Studies with a Focus on Small and Medium Towns with Special Reference to West Bengal,18 th November, 2006, Organized by Centre for Urban Economic Studies, Calcutta University, Kolkata. 22. Charland (RiverIslands): The Vulnerabilities and Livelihood Strategies for Survival, 2 nd November, 2005, French Institute of Pondicherry. 23. Marginal Lives in Marginal Lands: Livelihood Strategies of Women-Headed Households in Charlands of the Damodar, Lower Bengal, India, XI National 9

10 Conference on Women s Studies, 3-6 May, 2005, Organized by Indian Association for Women s Studies, Goa, India. 24. Living in the margins: Poor immigrant women in charland environment, International Conference on Women and Migration in Asia, December, 2003, Organized by Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi, Delhi. 25. XVIII INCA International Congress, December, 1998, Calcutta. 26. ThirdWestBengalState Science Congress, 28 th February to 1 st March, 1996, Burdwan. Workshop Attended 1. Workshop on Urban Peripheries in South AsiaOrganized by the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, th August, Workshop on India Water Development Report: A Right to Water amidst Growing Scarcity organized by SaciWATERs, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, 17 th August, Workshop on Mobility and Environment organized by Rachel Carson Centre, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, 3-5 June Workshop on Research Methodology organized by the UGCAcademicStaffCollege, The University of Burdwan, 8-13 January Workshop on Feminist Research Methodology organized by the MIDS, Chennai and IAWS, India, Madras Institute of Development Studies, February 2010 Ongoing Ph. D Supervision 1. An Inquiry into the Livelihood Pattern of the Poor in Birbhum District, West Bengal by KunalChakraborty 2. Impact of Iron and Steel Based Industries on Economy and Environment in Durgapur- Raniganj Industrial Region by SandipanBatabyal 3. Urban Water Management and the Question of Sustainability of Chandernagore and Chinsurah Cities by Malay Ganguli 4. Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Women s Work and Mobility: A Case Study of Bangalore by Ahana Banerjee M. Phil Thesis Supervised 1. Poverty and Health Status of Rural Women Workers: An Analysis of Gender Discrimination in Agricultural Labour and Home Based Work by ShrabanaSengupta,

11 2. Globalisation, Municipal Reform and Urban Basic Services A Case Study of Berhampur Municipality, Murshidabad by Prasenjit Pal, MGNREGA and Rural Employment: Impact on the Livelihoods of Rural Poor by MrinalMondal,