Prof. Satyapriya Rout

Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad - 500046

Email: s.rout@uohyd.ac.in, routspr@gmail.com,

Phone: 040 - 23133256 (O), 9177982487

https://uohyd.academia.edu/SatyapriyaRout

Satyapriya Rout is Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad since August 2021. He joined the department as an Assistant Professor in the year 2006. Prior to joining University of Hyderabad, he worked as Lecturer in Sociology at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi from February 2004 to August 2006.

His 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.

He was awarded Sir Ratan Tata Fellowship for his post-doctoral research at Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics & Political Science, London, UK during October 2012 - June 2013.

Areas of Research Interest

Environmental Sociology
Community based Natural Resource Governance
Environmental Movements
Decentralised Governance and Development

Current Teaching Engagements

Sociology of Development [Compulsory]
Environmental Sociology [Elective]

Courses Taught in the Past

Social Stratification [Compulsory]
Environment and Sustainable Development [Elective]
Decentralised Governance and Development [Elective]

Academic Distinctions

Associate Fellow at India Observatory, London School of Economics & Political Science [LSE], London, UK during May 2015 - June 2017 under the UGC-UKIERI [UK-India Education Research Initiative] Partnership Project.
Visiting Fellow at Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, UK during April - June, 2014.
Sir Ratan Tata Visiting Fellow at Asia Research Centre (ARC), London School of Economics & Political Science [LSE], London, UK during October 2012 - June 2013.
Visiting Fellow at Centre for Bharat Studies, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand during November - December, 2010 under ICSSR - NRCT Indo-Thai Cultural Exchange Programme.

Publications

Books:

Rout, Satyapriya & Kattumuri, R. 2022. Urban Water Supply and Governance in India. Singapore: Springer Nature.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2019. Social Inequality and Access to Water: Equity, Sustainability and Participation in Rhetoric of Drinking Water Reforms in India. New Delhi: Serials Publications.

In Peer Reviewed Journals:

Rout, Satyapriya. 2022. "Global Local Linkages in Contemporary Environmental Movements: Networking, Diffusion and Scale Shift in Niyamgiri Movement of Odisha". Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 71 (2): 210 - 231.
Rout, Satyapriya & Yudik, Annu. 2021. “Environmental Movements in North-East India: Political Opportunity Structure and Movement Success”. Review of Development and Change (Sage Publications). 26 (2): 226 – 246.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2021. “Sustainable Community Forestry: Evidences from Rural Thailand”. Current World Environment. 16 (3): 740 – 754.
Moharaj, Prasanta & Rout, Satyapriya. 2021. “Changing Climatic Conditions and Agricultural Livelihoods: An Impact Study in Jagatsinghpur District, Odisha”. Social Change, Vol. 51 (2): 160 – 179.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2021. “Traditional Artisans of Odisha: Problems, Prospects and Sustainability of the Craft”. The Eastern Anthropologist. Vol. 71 (4): 503 – 524.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2018. "Sustaining South-east Asia’s Forests: Community, Institutions and Forest Governance in Thailand”. Millennial Asia (Sage Publication). Vol. 9 (2): 140 - 161.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2018. “Gendered Participation in Community Forest Governance in India”. Contemporary Social Science – Journal of Academy of Social Sciences, UK (T&F, Routledge, UK), 13 (1): 72 - 84.
Rout, Satyapriya.2014. ‘Institutional variations in practice of demand responsive approach: evidences from rural water supply in India’. Water Policy (Journal of the World Water Council), 16 (4): 650 – 668.
Rout, Satyapriya and P. Patnaik. 2014. ‘Institutional Exclusion and Tribal Interest: Decentralised Government in the Context of Conflict over Development in India’. Journal of Developing Societies (Sage Publications), Vol. 30 (2): 115 - 143.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2010. ‘Collective Action for Sustainable Forestry: Institutional Dynamics in Community Management of Forests in Orissa’. Social Change, Vol. 40 (4): 479 – 502.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2009. ‘Revisiting Baliraja Dam Struggle: A Study of an Environmental Movement in Maharashtra’. Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 58 (3): 325 – 45.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2008. ‘Institutional Reforms in Water Sector: A Cross Country Perspective from South Asia’. International Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 1 (2): 236 – 55.
Jyotishi, A. and Satyapriya Rout. 2005. ‘Water Rights in the Decan Region: Insights from Baliraja and other Water Institutions’. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XL (2): 149 - 56.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2005. ‘Whose Forest is it? Customary Rights and Legal Pluralism in Joint Forest Management in Orissa, India’, Indian Socio-legal Journal (special issue on Legal Pluralism in India), Vol. XXXI: 27 - 42.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2004. ‘Secularism Contested: The Secularisation, Secularism and Religious Tolerance Debate in India’. Gandhian Perspectives, Vol. XII (3): , 110 – 24.

Chapters in Edited Books

Rout, Satyapriya and P. Patnaik. 2021. “Neo-liberal Development, Displacement and Exclusion: Tribal Resistance to Vedanta”. In Sujit Mishra & R. Siva Prasad (Ed.). Displacement, Impoverishment and Exclusion: Political Economy of Development in India. London: Routledge (T&F Group).
Rout, Satyapriya. 2019. “Gendered Participation in Community Forest Governance in India”. In Linda Hantrais, Ruth Kattumuri & Ashley Thomal Lenihan (Eds). Sustaining Natural Resources in a Changing Environment. London: Routledge.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2018. “Neo-liberal Development, Displacement and Exclusion: Tribal Resistance to Vedanta”. In Sujit Mishra & R. Siva Prasad (Ed.). Displacement, Impoverishment and Exclusion: Political Economy of Development in India. Delhi: Aakar Books.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2015. ‘Capture, Cooption and Exclusion: Local Governance and Neo-liberal Development in Scheduled Areas of Orissa’. In Y. S. Sisodia and T. K. Dalapati. (Eds). "Development and Discontent in Tribal India". Jaipur: Rawat Publications.
Rout, Satyapriya.2015. ‘Land, Law and Resistance: Legal Pluralism and Tribal Conflicts over Land Alienation in Orissa’. In J.M Bavink and A. Jyotishi(Ed) Conflict, Negotiation and Natural Resource Management; A Legal Pluralism Perspective from India.London: Routledge (Taylor and Francis): 75 – 98.
Rout, Satyapriya 2014. ‘Revisiting Baliraja Dam Struggle: A Study of an Environmental Movement in Maharashtra’. In S. K. Chaudhury (Ed). Sociology of Environment (Studies in Indian Sociology vol. 7), New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2012. ‘Revisiting Baliraja Dam Struggle: A Study of an Environmental Movement in Maharashtra’. In D. R. Sahoo (Ed.) Sociology of Social Movements, (Studies in Indian Sociology, Volume 6), New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2010. ‘Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in South Asia: Problems, Prospects and Policy Changes’. In SaifuddinSoz and R. N. Srivastava(Ed.)SAARC: Emerging Challenges, New Delhi: Foundation for Peace and Sustainable Development.
Rout, Satyapriya and P. Patnaik. 2008. ‘Democratisation with Inclusion: Representation and Empowerment of Scheduled Tribes through Panchayats’. In S. R. Padhi and B. Padhy (Ed.)Trends and Issues in Tribal Studies, New Delhi: Abhijeet Publications.

Working Papers

Rout, Satyapriya. 2003. ‘Joint Forest Management in Orissa: Challenges and Opportunities’, Working Paper No.117, Bangalore: Institute for Social and Economic Change.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2003. ‘Conflict Over Natural Resources and Legal Pluralism: A Case Study from Orissa’, Working Paper No. 137, Bangalore: Institute for Social and Economic Change.

Conference Proceedings

Rout, Satyapriya.2012. ‘Tribal Self-governance in the Context of Conflicts over neo-liberal Development: A Legal Pluralistic Understanding to Tribal Resistance to Vedanta in Orissa”. In A. Jyotishi and S. mohapatra (ed) Proceedings of the International Conference on “Legal Pluralism in Natural Resource Management” organized by International Commission on Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law and Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore, during March 30 – 31, 2012.
Rout, Satyapriya. 2008. Institutional and Policy Reforms in Water Sector in India: Review of Issues, Concepts and Trends’, Proceedings of the 7th Annual Partners’ Meet of IWMI – TATA Water Policy Programme, Hyderabad: International Crop Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).

Massive Open Online Courses [MOOCs]

Course Coordinator for UGC-CEC SWAYAM MOOCs:

2021 [under production process in association with EMRC, Osmania University]: UGC/CEC SWAYAM UG MOOCs titled “Rethinking Development”. Course launching from July 2022. {42 Teaching Modules}

2019 – Till Date: UGC/CEC - SWAYAM PG MOOCs titled “Environmental Sociology”. {36 Teaching Modules}

E-Learning Contents Developed:

"Ideas and Ideologies of Development", for the paper titled: Globalisation and Development in UGC-e-Pathshala
"Sociological Perspectives on Environment", for the course titled: ‘Environment and Sustainable Natural Resource Management’ in UoH-European Union Project on Enhancing Quality and Access of Higher Education
"Governance of Resources and Environment", for the course titled: ‘Environment and Sustainable Natural Resource Management’ in UoH-European Union Project on Enhancing Quality and Access of Higher Education
"Environmental Movements", for the course titled: ‘Environment and Sustainable Natural Resource Management’ in UoH-European Union Project on Enhancing Quality and Access of Higher Education
"Salient Features of Panchayat Extensions to Scheduled Areas (PESA), Act", for the Course titled: ‘Panchayati Raj Governance and Rural Development’, Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) and NIRDPR, Hyderabad
"Tribal Self-governance and the Role of Gram Sanha", for the Course titled: ‘Panchayati Raj Governance and Rural Development’, Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) and NIRDPR, Hyderabad
"Forest Governance in Scheduled Areas", for the Course titled: ‘Panchayati Raj Governance and Rural Development’, Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) and NIRDPR, Hyderabad
"Concept of Democracy and Decentralisation", for the Course titled: ‘Panchayati Raj Governance and Rural Development’, Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) and NIRDPR, Hyderabad

Reseach Projects

2022 - 2023: “Local Democracy in the Woods: Understanding Decentralised Forest Governance through Forests Rights Act, 2006”, Sponsored Azim Premji University; Bangalore
2019 - 2021: “Decentralised Governance through People’s Planning: A Study of Implementation of Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP)” IMPRESS, ICSSR, New Delhi
2018: "Development of Online Course for SWAYAM titled "Environmental Sociology", sponsored by UGC, New Delhi.
2017 - 2018: “Documentation of Successful Case Studies in PRIs”, sponsored by National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR), Ministry of Rural Development, GoI, Hyderabad.
2015 - 2016: “Assessing Socio-Economic and Working Condition of Traditional Artisans of Odisha”, sponsored by Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, New Delhi.
2014 - 2017: "Urban Water Supply and Governance in India", sponsored by UGC - UK – India Education Research Initiative (UGC -UKIERI) in collaboration with Asia Research Centre (ARC), London School of Economics (LSE), London.
2013 - 2015: “Socio-economic and Educational Background of Students Receiving Assistance under Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship and their Performance/Placement” sponsored by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, New Delhi.
2010 - 2011: “Local Governance in the Context of Tribal Conflicts over Development: A Study of Inclusion/Exclusion and Empowerment/ Disempowerment of Scheduled Tribes in the Panchayats of Orissa”, sponsored by Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC), Embassy of Switzerland, New Delhi.
2010 - 2012: Assessing Equity and Sustainability in Water Supply through Sector Reforms: A Study of Community Participation, Institutions and Civil Society Intervention in Rural Drinking Water Supply in Orissa”, sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi.
2009 - 2010: “Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) Plan for Three Proposed Thermal Power Plants in Bihar”, sponsored by Environmental Protection, Training and Research Institute (EPTRI), Hyderabad
2008: “Baseline Survey of CFL Uses in Rangareddy North Circle of Andhra Pradesh Central Power Distribution Corporation”, sponsored by International Resources Group (IRG) South Asia and USAID, New Delhi