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Ravi Baghel
Assoziierte Mitglieder
Position
- GPTS Student
- Project C2, Large Dams
- Earth Systems Governance Research Fellow
Kontaktinformationen
South Asia Institute
Im Neuenheimerfeld 330
Room 405
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
- Email:
- baghel@uni-heidelberg.de
- Telefon:
- +49 (0) 6221 54 5377
- Fax:
- +49 (0) 6221 54 4012
Über Ravi Baghel
Ravi Baghel is a PhD candidate (Geography) working on the role of expert knowledge in human-environmental interactions, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marcus Nüsser. His dissertation analyzes large scale river control projects in India within a framework of Foucauldian political ecology. The research focuses on the role of expert knowledge in the transformation of river systems into technological hydroscapes. This contemporary analysis is placed within a historical and geographical perspective through an examination of the circulation of the knowledge of river control.
His Masters studies had a focus on Globalisation as part of the Global Studies Programme, and he was awarded an M.A. in Social Sciences by the University of Freiburg, Germany and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He earned a B.A. (Honours) degree in Chinese at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
His research interests include Governmentality, Political Ecology, Representations and Power/Knowledge in human-environmental interactions.
As a recipient of the DAAD STIBET Teaching Assistantship, he taught the course Introduction to Political Ecologies in the Wintersemester 2010-11.
He is an editor of Transcience- a journal of global studies.
Since 2010, Mr. Baghel is also associated with the Earth System Governance Project (ESGP) as a Research Fellow. The ESGP is one of the six core projects of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)
Projekte
Lebenslauf
Academia.edu profile
Teaching
- Introduction to political ecologies. (Seminar). Winter 2010/11, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg.
- Human-environmental interactions in South Asia. Winter 2012/13, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
Ausgewählte Publikationen
Baghel, R. (In press) "Misplaced knowledge: Large dams as an anatopism in South Asia". In M. Nüsser (ed.) Large Dams: Contested Environments Between Technological Hydro-Scapes and Social Resistance; Series: Advances in Asian human-environmental research. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London & New York: Springer
Baghel, R. (2012) Knowledge, power and the environment: Epistemologies of the Anthropocene. Transcience 3(1): 1-6 [Editor's introduction to the special issue]
Baghel, R. and M. Nüsser (2010). Discussing large dams in Asia after the World Commission on Dams: Is a political ecology approach the way forward? Water Alternatives 3(2): 231-248. Link to article
Baghel, R. (2010) Fear of crime in South Africa: Obsession, compulsion, disorder. Transcience 1(2): 71-84
Baghel, R. and A. Mayr (2007). "Glimpses through the cage of fear: International students experience Durban". In R. Pattman and S. Khan (eds.) Undressing Durban. Durban: Madiba Publishers, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Conference presentations
2011. Water flowing waste to the sea: Tracing a genealogy of the technocratic understanding of rivers in India. "Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting" (12-16 April 2011) Seattle, USA .
2011. Dissenting governmentalities: Expert opposition to the large scale transformation of river systems in India. "Colorado Conference on Earth Systems Governance: Crossing boundaries and building bridges" (17-20 May 2011) Ft. Collins, USA
2010. Session “Knowledge, Power and the Environment”. Session organized for “Power & Knowledge, 2nd International Conference” (September 6-8, 2010), Tampere, Finland.
2009. Large Dams in India & China: Potentials and Pitfalls of a 'Third World Political Ecology' Approach. Paper presented at “Seventh International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities” (2 to 5 June 2009), Beijing, China.
2008. Control in Information societies: From surveillance to diagnosis? Paper presented at the conference “Power: Forms, Dynamics and Consequences”( 22-24 September 2008), Tampere, Finland.
