Bikramaditya Kumar Choudhary | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University

Bikramaditya Kumar Choudhary

Assistant Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for the Study of Regional Development,

School of Social Sciences

Room No

122, SSS-III

Off. Phone

011-26704693

Residence

90 NTH

bkchoudhary@mail.jnu.ac.in

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in

Personal files

Qualifications

Ph. D. (JNU)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Regional Disparity and Development, Resource Conflict and Peace, Urbanization and Urban Development, Health and Disease, Political Ecology

Experience

Assistant Professor 2004-2013

Awards & Honours

2002- M. K. Thavraj Award (Jawaharlal Nehru University) for the highest grade point in M. Phil. Course Work for the year 2000-2001.

2003- Jawaharlal Nehru Young Leaders Fellowship (Nippon Foundation, Tokyo Foundation, Tokyo and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

2017 - Emerging Scholar Award, Regional Development and Planning Speciality Group of American Association of Geographers (AAG)

2018 - Endeavour Executive Fellow at Western Sydney University, Australia, May-August.

2021- Distinguished Service Award, RDPSG, American Association of Geographers (AAG)

International Collaboration/Consultancy

2011-12 - Social Cost Benefit Analysis for Sondhia Coal Block, Sarguja District of Chhatishgarh (jointly with IIT BHU)

2018-2020 – Waterscape in Urbanizing Asia: Geographies of Water Accessibility, Vulnerability, Privatization, and Everyday Practices (Collaborator), located at NIT, Singapore.

2016-2018 – Transformative Pathways to Sustainability: Learning across Disciplines, Contexts and Cultures, (Project Director) joint Project of ISSC, University of Sussex and TRCSS JNU

2019-2021 - Rapid Transition Alliance, University of Sussex, UK

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

‘Reconfiguring Urban Waterscape: Water kiosks in Delhi as a governance model’, Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 10(4), 996-1011: 2020: doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2020.152 (Co-authored with Uma Dey Sarkar)

‘Can poor Cities breathe: responses to climate change in low-income countries’, Urban Climate, Vol. 27: 403-411, 2019: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2019.01.001 (co-authored with A K Tripathi and J Rai)

‘Spatial segregation in Varanasi: Caste and religion based exclusion/inclusion across municipal wards’, Transaction of IIG Vol. 42, No. 1, PP. 25-35: 2020 (Co-authored with S. Sinha and M.J. Rana)

‘Structured Collaboration Across a Transformative Knowledge Network—Learning Across Disciplines, Cultures and Contexts’, Sustainability, MDPI, 12, 2499, 2020: doi:10.3390/su12062499 (Co-authored with Adrian Ely and Inter-continental Team of eleven Researcher)

‘Health, Illness and Disease: A Political Ecology Perspective’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 49, No. 45, pp. 60-68: 2014

‘Political Ecology of Urban Water Supply: Case of Susuwahi, Varanasi City, India’, Urban India, 32(1), Journal of National Institute of Urban Affairs New Delhi 2012

‘Garbage-combers of Delhi: Aspects of Deprivation’, Indian Journal of Social Work, 69 (4), Publication of Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai, 2008

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

‘Availability, Accessibility and Inequalities of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Services in Indian Metro Cities’, Sustainable Cities and Society 2019: doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2019.101878 (Co-authored with Shashi Kala Saroj , Srinivas Goli and Md Juel Rana)

‘Transforming Dubai: Oasis to Tourist’s Paradise’, Contemporary Middle East Review, Vol. 5, No. 4, 2018: doi.org/10.1177/2347798918795936, (co-authored with Nian Paul)

‘Architectures of Fear and Spaces of Hope in Banaras: A City beyond Monolithic Identity’, Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol. 44, pp. 34-53: 2016; https://doi.org/10.1163/15685314-04401003 (co-authored with Brahma Prakash)

‘Upward Movement vs. Outward Movement: Resource, Development and Indigenous People’, Transaction of IIG, Pune, Vol, 39, No. 1, PP. 25-35:2017

Patents (if any)