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Krishnendra Meena

Krishnendra Meena

Krishnendra Meena
Krishnendra Meena
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for the Study of Regional Development,
School of Social Sciences
Email
meenak@mail.jnu.ac.in, meena.krishnendra@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in/Faculty/meenak/cv.pdf
Qualifications

Ph.D.- 2012, Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Thesis Topic: British Geostrategic Perspectives on the Southern Atlantic Region

M.Phil – 2001, Centre for International Politics Organization and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Dissertation Topic: Border Management Problems in South America: A Case Study of Argentina and Chile

M.A. (Geography) -1999, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

B.A. (Honours) Geography -1997, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, Delhi

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Geopolitics, Critical Geopolitics, BRICS, Borders

Experience

Seventeen years of teaching experience (from October 2004 to present) at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Has been teaching M.Phil courses on Political Geography, Advanced Political Geography, Geography and Politics of Sustainable Development and has designed a course on Concepts and Issues in Geopolitics for M.Phil students at the Centre.

Has supervised 25 M.Phil students in Political Geography on topics in Political Geography, and Geopolitics from 2007 to 2020.

Has supervised 14 PhD. students, (14 awarded),  on topics in Political Geography and Geopolitics.

Worked as a Lecturer at SNKP Government College, Neem Ka Thana, District Sikar, Rajasthan from January 2003 to October 2004 (Department of Higher Education, Government of Rajasthan).

 

Awards & Honours

UGC Junior Research Fellowship – October 1999
UGC National Eligibility Test (NET)-October 1999 in Urban and Regional Planning 

International Collaboration/Consultancy
* Attended the Advanced Training Programme Managing Global Governance at the German Development Institute, Bonn from 4th January 2009 to 4th July 2009
* Attended the International Futures 4: International Training for Diplomats, Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany from 8th to 20th March, 2009
* Practice phase for project study at German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Institute for Latin American Studies, Hamburg, 18th April to 18th June, 2009
* Appointed as an Advisor to the Oikos International, a student organization working for Sustainable Development and Management in 2010 for 2 years
* Attended the Annual Presidents and Advisors Retreat of the Oikos International at Filzbach, Switzerland from 2nd September, 2010 to 4th September, 2010
* Visiting Fellowship, BRICS Policy Centre, Institute of International Relations, The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, 20th November, 2012 to 22nd December, 2012 
* Attended the 4th International Summer School of the Global COE Program “Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies”, Slavic Research Center, University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, 29th July, 2013- 4th August, 2013
Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Journal Articles

“Geopolitics and Marginality: Re-imaginations from the South”, South Asian Survey, Volume 21, No. 1&2, 2014, (Published in 2017)

“Borders in Europe: From Westphalia to Schengen”, World Focus, July 2017

“Borders and Bordering Practices: A Case Study of Jaisalmer District on India-Pakistan Border”, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Volume 35, No.2, 2020

“Environmental Standards in the BRICS: An Analysis of Vehicular Pollution”, Volume 58 (3), July 2021

 

Book Chapters

Borders in Europe: From Westphalia to Schengen, in Gulshan Sachdeva (ed.) India and the European Union: Challenges and Prospects, Palgrave MacMillan (2019)

Borders and Bordering Practices: A Case Study of Jaisalmer District on India-Pakistan Border in Tripathi, Dhananjay and Sanjay Chaturvedi (eds.) South Asia: Borders, Boundaries and Beyond, Routledge, New Delhi (2022)

British Imperial Vision of the Indian Ocean with reference to the works of Sir Halford J. Mackinder, in Pandey, Pragya (ed.)  K.M. Panikkar and the Growth of Maritime Consciousness in India, Palgrave Macmillan (2022)

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

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Patents (if any)

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A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.