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Dr. Haripriya Rangan will use a comparison between environmental concerns in India and Australia as a basis for examining the changing meaning of the term ‘environment'. Drawing on research across the Indian Ocean, Professor Rangan will offer a comparative picture of how ‘the environment’ is being shaped by different institutions. This forms the basis for Haripriya’s appeal for further in-depth comparative research on nature, environment, and alternative solutions to environmental problems.
About the speaker:
Haripriya Rangan trained in architecture and urban planning in India, and holds a doctoral degree from the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) in urban and regional development. Haripriya has over 20 years of research and teaching experience in universities in the USA and Australia. She has lectured in Geography at the University of California Berkeley and University of Kentucky, in Urban Planning and Environmental Management at RMIT University, and in Geography and Environmental Science at Monash University.
Haripriya has an excellent international research reputation in the field of political ecology and a strong record in research funding and publication. Her research on forestry and regional development in the Indian Himalayas is considered highly influential and widely cited by political ecologists and scholars working on environmental movements in South Asia. She has won several national competitive research grants, including one from the US National Science Foundation, and three ARC Discovery grants. Haripriya’s current research centres on natural resource and landscape management in South Africa, India and Australia, and environmental history of the Indian Ocean World.
She was recently appointed the Director for Research and Academic Programmes at the Australia India Institute.
Keywords for India:
The series will celebrate and explore the complexity of some of the most important words used by scholars and commentators to understand India, Australia and the relationship between India and Australia by inviting leading thinkers to make keynote addresses on individual words. By focusing on crucially important words -- such as “Power” and “Nation” -- the distinguished contributors to the series will illustrate why words matter, how their significance changes over time, and what they might mean in different contexts. The series will allow speakers to reflect in earnest on the changing connotations of this word, how it is used by different individuals and organisations, and how close consideration of the term might unlock understanding of aspects of India today.
Dr. Haripriya Rangan will use a comparison between environmental concerns in India and Australia as a basis for examining the changing meaning of the term ‘environment'. Drawing on research across the Indian Ocean, Professor Rangan will offer a comparative picture of how ‘the environment’ is being shaped by different institutions. This forms the basis for Haripriya’s appeal for further in-depth comparative research on nature, environment, and alternative solutions to environmental problems.
About the speaker:
Haripriya Rangan trained in architecture and urban planning in India, and holds a doctoral degree from the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) in urban and regional development. Haripriya has over 20 years of research and teaching experience in universities in the USA and Australia. She has lectured in Geography at the University of California Berkeley and University of Kentucky, in Urban Planning and Environmental Management at RMIT University, and in Geography and Environmental Science at Monash University.
Haripriya has an excellent international research reputation in the field of political ecology and a strong record in research funding and publication. Her research on forestry and regional development in the Indian Himalayas is considered highly influential and widely cited by political ecologists and scholars working on environmental movements in South Asia. She has won several national competitive research grants, including one from the US National Science Foundation, and three ARC Discovery grants. Haripriya’s current research centres on natural resource and landscape management in South Africa, India and Australia, and environmental history of the Indian Ocean World.
She was recently appointed the Director for Research and Academic Programmes at the Australia India Institute.
Keywords for India:
The series will celebrate and explore the complexity of some of the most important words used by scholars and commentators to understand India, Australia and the relationship between India and Australia by inviting leading thinkers to make keynote addresses on individual words. By focusing on crucially important words -- such as “Power” and “Nation” -- the distinguished contributors to the series will illustrate why words matter, how their significance changes over time, and what they might mean in different contexts. The series will allow speakers to reflect in earnest on the changing connotations of this word, how it is used by different individuals and organisations, and how close consideration of the term might unlock understanding of aspects of India today.
