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TRCSS is organising a symposium on Sustainability Studies

TRCSS is organising a symposium on Sustainability Studies

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Symposium on Sustainability Studies

 

JNU Researchers’ Interaction

 

September 26-27, 2017; Committee Hall, Convention Centre, JNU

 

The TRCSS and SASH&KN invites research scholars, faculty and students, of all Schools and Centres of JNU to participate in an interaction that focuses on Sustainability and Sustainability Studies. We perceive Sustainability as a societal concern for creating and leaving behind for future generations social, economic and environmental conditions that promote the health and wellbeing of ecosystems and human beings. This is obviously a wide, inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary area that requires transitioning to other kind of developmental path(s) and governance modes than has been dominant world-wide over the past decades. Much research in the university relates to these issues, and we would like researchers to use this platform of the TRCSS to share views and theoretical formulations, research methodologies and findings, innovative policy implications, among other dimensions of Sustainability so as to enrich this field of study and develop a contextualised South Asian version of how to conceptualise and operationalise Sustainability and Pathways to Sustainability.

 

We invite submission of abstracts by those who would like to present their M.Phil./Ph.D./Faculty research that relates to any dimension of Sustainability Studies, including but not limited to the following:

 

  • Conceptualising Sustainability
  • Food security
  • The Political Economy of Sustainability
  • Sustainability through gender/ caste/ class lenses
  • Knowledge Generation for Sustainability
  • Health and wellbeing of all
  • Emerging Concepts related to Sustainability
  • Sustainable and ecological health care
  • Pathways to Sustainability
  • Addressing Inequalities—Social Sustainability
  • Examining the Sustainable Development Goals
  • Economic prosperity and sustainability
  • Science and technology studies from a sustainability lens
  • Critiquing Sustainability
  • Built Structures, Architecture, Aesthetics and Sustainability
  • Planning for Sustainability
  • Policy Approaches to Sustainability
  • Local initiatives and Grassroots Innovations
  • International Dimensions of Sustainability
  • Governance and Sustainability
  • Sustainability from a South Asia and Third World Lens
  • Sustainable land use and green cover
  • Assessing Sustainability Measures
  • Environmental Integrity and Degradation
  • Ecologically sustainable livelihoods and related knowledge systems
  • Environmental Pollution and Remediation
  • Climate change, mitigation and innovative sustainable adaptations
  • Issues of Waste and Waste management
  • Sustainable Regional Development
  • Sustainable Urbanisation
  • Multiple dimensions of Poverty
  • Sustainable energy sources
  • Production and Consumption Patterns
  • Sustainable Rural Development
  • Issues of Water; local to global water systems and issues of sustainability
  • Literature, Arts and Culture for Sustainability
  • Livelihoods, especially in the ‘informal’ sector
  • Teaching Sustainability
  • Conditions of work, social security and occupational health
  •  
 

 

                                          We also invite faculty members who are interested in the area of related studies but do not wish to make a presentation to let us know, so we can interact and engage in other ways.

 

Last Date for submission of abstracts: 17th September. Abstract should not be more than 500 words. It submitted online to –  trcsssymposium2017@gmail.com 

 

Authors should clearly mention their complete name, affiliation or programme of study (M.Phil./Ph.D.), Centre and School in JNU along with the title of the presentation and an abstract.  

 

Note: TRCSS is considering award/recognition for outstanding papers of research students. For this, interested students must submit their complete papers by September 22, 2017.

 

TRCSS Members: Ritu Priya, Dinesh Abrol, Pranav N. Desai, Ramila Bisht, Atul Sood, Sucharita Sen, Milap Punia, Archana Prasad, Bikramaditya K. Choudhary, Pradeep Shinde, Vikas Bajpai, Pravin Kushwaha

 

Transdisciplinary Research Cluster on Sustainability Studies (TRCSS), JNU is a collaborative initiative of four Centres within the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, namely Centre for Studies in Science Policy (CSSP), Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health (CSMCH) and Centre for Informal Sector & Labour Studies (CIS&LS). South Asia Sustainability Hub & Knowledge Network (SASH&KN) is a joint initiative of JNU and STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK.

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.