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Haripriya Rangan

 

 

Research Supervision:

I supervise students working on a wide range of topics relating to development, environmental and natural resources management in various regions of the world.

PhD Completions

  • Herlina Hartanto, Thesis: Adaptability of Customary Forest Institutions in Kerinci, Central Sumatra, Indonesia (currently Consultant for Agence Française de Développement in Jakarta).
  • Kiran Shinde, Thesis: The environment of Pilgrimage in the Sacred Site of Vrindavan, India (currently lecturer in Geography and Planning, University of New England, Armidale, NSW).
  • Kwasi Agyeman, Thesis: Land Use Change and Forest Transformations in the Ashanti Region, Ghana (currently Lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana).
  • Akiko Yamane, Thesis: Rethinking Climate Change and Vulnerability in Sri Lanka, Monash University (currently Assistant Professor of geography at California State University at Fresno, USA).
  • Mary Gilmartin, Thesis: Education and Change in South Africa and Northern Ireland, (External Advisor) University of Kentucky, USA (currently Lecturer in geography at National University of Ireland, Maynooth).  
  • Raewyn Porter, Thesis: 100 Years of Contest: Land and Governance in Uganda, RMIT University, Melbourne (currently involved in consultancy work in international development). 
  • Abdul Razak, Thesis: Spatial Access to work and services for squatter households in Delhi, India (co-advisor with Prof. J. Friedmann) RMIT University, Melbourne (currently Lecturer in urban planning at Anna University of Technology, Chennai, India).

Current PhD Students

  • Paul Rogers, Thesis: Agribusiness and Rural Development in Indonesia.
  • Lisa Elford, Thesis: The social geography of bare life: Refugees and Human Rights in South Africa.

MA Research Completions

  • Michelle Aitken, Thesis: Living with alien invasives: The political ecology of wattle in the eastern highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa (currently Project Officer of Invasive Species Unit, DSE Victoria).
  • Anna Egan, Thesis: Doing right by country: Prickly trees, cattle, and camels in Northwest Queensland (began doctoral studies at University of Tasmania in March 2009).
  • Usman Shah, Thesis:  Bringing order to the Jangal: State building, social change, and international intervention in Afghanistan's Kunduz River Basin (began doctoral studies at the Free University of Berlin in September 2009).

BA/BSc/BEnv.Sc. Honours Completions

  • Keith Harwood, Thesis: Melbourne's Urban Form and Transport: A discourse analysis.
  • Rémy Kinna, Thesis: Conservation and Development Perspectives in the expansion of the Blyde River Canyon Reserve into Mariepskop State Forest, Mpumalanga, South Africa (begins Masters in Conservation at University of Cape Town).
  • Tracey Butcher, Thesis: The Role of Gender Focused NGOs in the former Homelands of South Africa.
  • Petr Svoboda, Thesis: Gandhian Experiments with Alternative Development: The case of Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • Paul Carroll, Thesis: Sugarcane Farming on Communal Land: The Case of KaNgwane Former Homeland, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
  • Julien Gronbach, Thesis: Indigenous climate knowledge and rural agricultural practices in the South African lowveld.
  • Rebecca Monson, Thesis: The big flood: a ‘natural' disaster? Understanding the 1998 East Gippsland floods and vulnerability in the Upper Tambo Valley, Victoria (currently enrolled in doctoral studies at Australian National University).
  • Jessica Williams, Thesis: Development and Community Participation in Papua New Guinea.
  • Nicole Forster, Thesis: Victorian regional forest agreements: Public consultation and conflict (co-supervised with Prof. D. Mercer).
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TEACHING

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RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Recent Publications

Please Email me for copies of the articles you cannot access from your library.

Aitken, M., H. Rangan, and C. Kull. 2010. Living with Alien invasives: The political ecology of wattle in the eastern highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa. Etudes Océan Indien, special issue on Plants and People, edited by G. Lefèvre, N. Rajaonarimanana, N. J. Gueunier, S. Fee. No. 42-43:115-142.

Rangan, H. and C. Kull. 2010. The Indian Ocean and the making of Outback Australia: An Ecocultural Odyssey. In S. Moorthy and A. Jamal eds. Indian Ocean Studies: Cultural, Social, and Political Perspectives. pp 45-72. New York and London: Routledge.

Rangan, H., C. Kull, and L. Alexander. 2009. Forest plantations, water availability, and regional climate change: Controversies surrounding the presence of Acacia mearnsii in the upper Palnis Hills of southern India. Regional Environmental Change.  DOI 10.1007/s10113-009-0098-4

Rangan, H. and C. Kull. 2009. What makes ecology ‘political'? Rethinking ‘scale' in political ecology. Progress in Human Geography. 33 (1): 28-45.

Kull, C. and H. Rangan. 2008. Acacia exchanges: Wattles, thorn trees, and the study of plant movements. Geoforum. 39: 1258-1272.

Rangan, H. 2008. ‘Development' in Question, in K. Cox, M. Low, and J. Robinson eds. The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography, pp. 563-578. London: Sage.

Kull, C., Tassin, J., and Rangan, H. 2007. Multifunctional, scrubby, and invasive forest? Wattles in the highlands of Madagascar'. Mountain Research and Development 27(3): 224-231.

Rangan, H. 2007. Brazil: The Favela-Bairro Program: Scaling-up urban development. In Too Good to be True?: Local Poverty Reduction Initiatives for Potential Replication in Asia Pacific Region. Pp. 148-156. UNDP: Asia Pacific Regional Centre, Colombo.

Rangan, H. 2004. From Chipko to Uttaranchal: The Environment of Protest and Development in the Indian Himalaya, in R. Peet and M. Watts eds. Liberation Ecologies, Second Edition. Pp. 371-393. London: Routledge.

Rangan, H. and Gilmartin, M. 2002. Gender, Traditional Authority, and the Politics of Rural Reform in South Africa. Development and Change. 33 (4): 633-658.

Rangan, H. 2001. The Muti Trade: South Africa's Indigenous Medicines", Diversity. 2 (6): 16-25.

Rangan, H. and Lane, M. 2001. Indigenous Peoples and Forest Management: Comparative Analysis of Institutional Approaches in Australia and India", Society and Natural Resources, Vol.14 (2): 145-160.

Rangan, H. 2000. The Political Ecology of Sustainability and Forest Management: Reflections on Contemporary Theories and Material Practices", in F.P. Gale and R.M. M'Gonigle eds. Nature, Production, Power: Towards and Ecological Political Economy. pp.121-140. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

Rangan, H. 2000. State Economic Policies and Changing Regional Landscapes in the Uttarakhand Himalaya", in A. Agarwal and K. Sivaramakrishnan eds. Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representation, and Rule in India. pp. 23-46. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press.

Books

Rangan, H. 2000. Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History, London: Verso Press (also published by Oxford University Press, Delhi, India).

Friedmann, J. and Rangan, H. 1993. In Defense of Livelihood: Comparative Studies in Environmental Action, edited with John Friedmann, Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Academic Qualifications

1993
Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles
1987 MA Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California Los Angeles
1983
M.Dip. Urban and Regional Planning, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India
1981 B. Architecture, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India





2007 Level 2 Certificate in LOTE: Portuguese



Previous Academic Appointments

1997-99 Lecturer, RMIT University, Melbourne
1995-97
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
1993-95 
S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Research Fellow , University of California Berkeley, USA
1991-93
Graduate Teaching Associate, University of California Los Angeles, USA

Professional Experience Outside Academia

1986-89 Transportation Planning Assistant, Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), Los Angeles, USA
1984-85
Architect-Planner, Vastushilpa Foundation, Ahmedabad, India
1983-84 Planning Consultant, CEPT Study Cell, Ahmedabad, India

                        

Academic Service at Monash

Deputy Head of School, 2007-2008, 2010
Graduate Research Coordinator, 2005-2007
Development of the M.IDEA Program, 2001-2003
Faculty of Arts International and External Affairs Committee, 1999-2000

Professional Service

Editorial Board, Professional Geographer, 2008 -
Associate Director, Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne, 2002 -  
Editorial Board, IPCS Writing Past Colonialism Book Series, University of Hawaii Press, 2001-
Editorial Board, South Asia Journal, 2001 -
Editorial Board, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2001-2006
External Assessor, ESRC-UK; SSHRC-Canada; NSF-USA; ISF-Israel

Professional Memberships

Institute of Australian Geographers
Association of American Geographers
International Association for the Study of the Commons
African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific
South Asian Studies Association of Australia
Bombay Natural History Society

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