Rethinking Development

Dr. Satyapriya Rout is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad (UoH), Hyderabad, where he is teaching since August 2006. Prior to joining UoH, he worked as Lecturer in Sociology at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi from February 2004 to August 2006. At UoH, he teaches courses like Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Development, and Contemporary Development Issues. Dr. Rout's areas of research interest broadly include environment and natural resource governance, environmental movements, decentralised governance and development. While inquiring into the question of community’s engagement with governance of natural resources, his research focuses upon forest and water. Dr. Rout was awarded Sir Ratan Tata Visiting Fellowship for his post-doctoral research at Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London, UK during October 2012 - June 2013. He was also awarded UKIERI visiting fellowship at LSE, London, UK (2015 - 16); SSPS-IASH visiting fellowship at University of Edinburgh, UK (2014); ICSSR-NRCT Indo-Thai visiting fellowship (2011); Legal Pluralism visiting fellowship at University of Neuchatel, Switzerland (2009). His most recent publications are: • [2019] Social Inequality and Access to Water: Equity, Sustainability and Participation in Rhetorics of Drinking Water Reforms in India. New Delhi: Serials Publication. • [2018] 'Sustaining South-east Asia's Forests: Community, Institution and Forest Governance in Thailand'. Millennial Asia (Sage Publications). 9 (2): 140 - 161. • [2018] 'Gendered participation in community forest governance in India', Contemporary Social Science: Journal of Academy of Social Sciences, UK (Taylor & Francis, UK). 13 (1): 72 - 84.