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Dr. Akhil Ranjan Dutta
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Department of Political Science
Gauhati University,
Guwahati-781014
Assam
Mobile: 09435196344
Email: akhilranjangu@gmail.com |
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Dr. Akhil Ranjan Dutta is a Reader at Peace and Conflict Studies, Department of Political Science, Gauhati University. He completed his Ph. D. in the year 2005 from Gauhati University.
Areas of research: Globalization, Human Security and Health Security
Select Publications
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Empowerment and Women Empowerment: A critique of Neo-liberal Political Economy Paradigm (2003), Journal of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati. |
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Pagladiya Project: Poor Rehabilitation of Oustees ( 2003) Economic and Political Weekly, Dec. 6 pp 5149-53, Mumbai |
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Hegemonic World and Education for Human Rights (2004) in N. Bhagawati & Hemlata Talesra (edited) Education for the Survival of Human Race Vol 2 pp 393- 412, Authors Press, New Delhi. |
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Neo-liberal State and Human Security: A Study of Right to Health care in Guwahati City of the State of Assam. Website: www.cds.ac.in . (The paper was included in the selected papers for presentation for the Third Development Convention of ICSSR supported Southern Indian Research Institutes, held at Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvanathapuram, Kerela on the theme Social Security, Human Development and Growth: Linkages and Disparities. |
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Political Economy of Contemporary Turmoil in North-East India: A Synoptic View in (2005) Journal of the Gauhati University Teacher’s Association, GU, Guwahati. |
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Critiquing the Theory of Neo-liberal State (2005) Social Change and Development: A Journal of OKD Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati pp 183-205 |
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Globalization and Ethnic Conflicts in Girin Phokan edited Inter and Intra-Ethnic Conflicts in North-East India, South Asian Publishers, New Delhi, pp 40-55 |
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Durable Disorder or Search For New Order A Review Article on Sanjib Baruah’s Durable Disorder (Oxford University Press 2005) in the Journal of Political Science (2005), Volume 4, Gauhati University, Assam, India, pp 88-105 |
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Globalization and Health Security in the Political Science Journal (2005),Vol. XII Dibrugarh University, Assam, India, pp35-58 |
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Civil Society and Communal harmony in Assam: An Analysis in the Context of Neo-liberal Globalization and Social Insecurity in Indian Journal of Secularism ( 2006) (Edited by Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer) Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai, Vol. 10, No 1 (April- June 2006) pp 11-35 |
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Higher Education: A Domain of Domination or Liberation, editorial in Akhil Ranjan Dutta Edited PRAJNA (2005-06), A Journal of Gauhati University Teachers’ Association, Assam, India. |
Books
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Parivartannar Samasya (Assamese Translation of the Book by B P Singh-The Problem of Change, Oxfor University Press), NBT, New Delhi, 1999 |
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Forthcoming (edited) Human Security in North East India, Anwesha, Guwahati |
Select presentations
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Alternative Models of Development” (2003) at the Eastern India Social Science Workshop on Tradition, Development and Justice, organized by the Centre for Study in Social Sciences (CSSS) Calcutta in collaboration with Eastern Regional Centre, ICSSR, on 23-25 June, 2003. |
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Disaggregation of the State and Marginalization of Citizenship: A Study of Right to Health Care in Assam (2004) presented in the International Conference on “Global Quest for participatory Democracy”, organized by the Centre for the Study of Social System (CSSS), School of Social Sciences (SSS), JNU, New Delhi on 20-22 Feb 2004. |
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Problematizing the Discourse on Constitutional Safeguards for the Indigenous People in the Epoch of Globalization (2004) paper, presented in the Regional Seminar on Constitutional Safeguards for the Indigenous People in North- East, organized by North-East Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India on 13-14 March 2004 at Guwahati. |
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Marginalizing the Marginalized; A Study of Right to Health Care in the State of Assam (2004), paper presented in the National Conference on ‘Social Change in North-East: Problems and Prospects’ organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, at Guwahati on 28-30 April, 2004. |
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Politicization Vs. De-politicization: Projecting Culture as an Autonomous Category by the Neo-liberal Agenda (2004) paper presented in the Symposium on Depolticization of Culture, organized by the Center for Political Studies, Department of Political Science, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam on May 3, 2004 |
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Civil Society and Communal harmony in Assam: An Analysis in the Context of Neo-liberal Globalization and Social Insecurity(2006) paper presented in the Seminar on Communal Harmony in Assam: The Role of Civil Society organized by OKD Institute of Social Change and Development in Collaboration with National Foundation for Communal Harmony, New Delhi on 23-24 January 2006. |
Editorial Assignment
Executive Editor of Natun Padatik, A bi-monthly Socio-Cultural Magazine published from Guwahati under the Editorship of Prof. Hiren Gohain. The journal is committed to progressive, democratic and secular transformation of the society in Assam and undertakes important socio-economic and political issues for discussion. The political economy and contradictions of capitalist globalization; multiple contradictions of Indian democracy, the role, significance and weaknesses of various peoples’ movements, politics of culture and literature etc. have regularly figured in the Journal. A Special Annual issue is published regularly and for every special issue focuses on a central theme. Some of the important themes discussed in the special issues are globalization, nationalism and communalism, religious fundamentalism etc.
Editor- PRAJNA (2005-06), A Journal of Gauhati University Teachers’ Association.
Research Projects
Acted as one of the State Supervisors for the State of Assam, in the National Election Study (NES-2004), CNN-IBN State of the Nation Survey (2006) & The Hindu-CSDS- IBN Assembly Election Study 2006 conducted by the Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, India
Associated with and acted as a social/gender and institutional/organizational expert for a UNICEF sponsored project on Rapid Sector Assessment of Rural Water Supply and sanitation in Assam for the Department of Public Health Engineering, Assam (Courtesy STUP Consultants, Kolkata). As a part of the Assessment an Inception Report, an Intermediate Status Report, A Draft Final Repot and Final Report have already been prepared and submitted to UNICEF, Kolkata. The Vision Document has also been prepared submitted to PHED, Assam. The basic objective of this Rapid Sector Assessment is to explore the feasibility of transition towards the demand driven water and sanitation policy- Swajaldhara and TSC.
Team Member and contributed a paper for the Report on Human Security in South Asia, prepared under the auspices of BISS- Bangladesh and sponsored by Ford Foundation. The Report is prepared by Porofessor M. Hussain, Department of Political Science, Gauhati University
A member of the Team of Authors for the NCERT XIIth Standard Text Book on Political Science
State Coordinator (Assam) and Project Co-Director for a Project on Mapping Human Security in Conflict Zones: A Case of North East India (2008)
Social Involvement
Involved in a few grassroots political movements/trade union movement fighting for the cause of development induced displaces, landless peasantry, security of the nationalized banking sector etc.
Contribution in News Dailies
Regular contributor in The Assam Tribune, highest circulated English Daily in North East India and also in Amar Asom and Dainik Janambhumi, vernacular dailies published from Guwahati
Membership, Professional/Voluntary Organizations
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Life Member, North East India Political Science Association |
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State Supervisor/Coordinator (Assam), Lokniti, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi |
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Member, Developing Countries Research Centre, Delhi University |
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Member, Amnesty International, India (AII) |
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Executive Committee Member, Anwesha, Guwahati |
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Executive Committee Member, Natun Padatik, Guwahati |
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