CURRICULUM VITAE: Sonali Narang (June 2015)
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 17 February 1986.
Office Address: Department of Political Science
Centre for the Study of Geopolitics, Panjab University
Chandigarh, India
Telephone: +91-9256871280
E. Mail:
Academic Qualifications and Awards
2015 Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science (Centre for the Study of Geopolitics) Panjab University Chandigarh India.
2015 Received the Doctoral Fellowship award from Indian Council of Social Sciences Research.
2014 Received Research Travel Grant from the ICSSR North-Western Regional Centre study grant scheme.
2011 M.Phil. From Department of Political Science, Panjab University and Stood Third Position in Panjab Universityon the topic “Climate Change and Securitization of Migration”.
2008 Masters of Arts in Political Science from Department of Political Science, Panjab University.
2009 Qualified UGC- National Eligibility Test for Lectureship in Political Science.
2006 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (Honours) from MCM DAV College, Punjab University, and Chandigarh.
2003 Senior Secondary in Commerce from CBSE Board with an aggregate of 73%.
Employment
Worked as Assistant Professor, for the Session 2013-2014 at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar,Panjab (India).
Worked as Assistant Professor, for the Session 2012-2013 at MCM DAV College Sector 36, Chandigarh Panjab University (India)
Worked as lecturer in Political Science, at I.S Dev Samaj Senior Secondary School Sector 21 C, Chandigarh (India).
Area of Research: Geopolitics of Climate Change, Human Security and Climate Displacements/Migrations, Forced Migration.
My work look at the various aspects of climate change from critical geopolitical perspective how the Formal, Practical and Popular Geopolitics are in a process of constructing climate knowledge by using climate scenarios and narratives. I believe that a critical social science intervention in the nascent discourse of ‘climate change migration’ is needed, in order to uncover and analyze the political uses and abuses of climate fear, and growing securitization and militarization of climate change policy and responses. I consider it is important to understand and describe the Climate Justice and ethical work that the idea of climate change is currently performing across different worlds. My research interests are therefore explore role of geopolitics of climate fear in B/ordering practices in India and Bangladesh, especially through the deployment of various official and popular narratives of ‘climate migration’. I look at howthe Counter-Imaginative Geographies are growing against the dominant geographies of power, practice and representation.
Training Programmes/Workshops
2013 Participated in the Centre for Science and Environment’s Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, organised on September 18-19, 2013 in New Delhi .
2013 Attended Post-graduate Short Course on International Refugee Law and Advocacy held in Bangkok in April 8 April –12 April by the Centre for Applied Human Rights (University of York, UK), in partnership with the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN).
2008 Attended Workshop on Qualitative Methodology in Social Science, December 12-25
ICSSR, Panjab University Chandigarh, India.
2008 Carried out Socio-Economic Survey in Bhakhra-Nangal Region Himachal Pradesh (India).
International and National Projects Research Experience
Worked as Research Assistant in various projects with Dr. Sanjay Chaturvedi, Professor, Political Science, Panjab University Chandigarh, India, 2008- 2014.
2014 Worked as Coordinator and Signed MOU with Global Innovative on Monsoon Splash water awareness fortnight programme and organized various activities and events related to water movement at the Branch of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Chandigarh.
2013 Worked as Research and Translation Assistant, Arctic Council Expansion Research. Project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Grant No. BCS-0921436) and the European Commission (Marie Curie Action No. IIF-GA 2010-275846),PhilipSteinberg, PI.
2011 Provided Training to Enumerators as a Master Trainer Facilitator in the Gender module
for the Census programme in Jalandhar, Panjab (India).
2011 Worked as a Supervisor for the Census programme of India in the Gurdaspur area of Panjab (India).
2011 Worked as an Educational Mentor/Content Writer in TK20 Chandigarh (India).
I.S Dev Samaj Senior Secondary School Chandigarh, 2012:Organized Youth Parliament for students in order to make them more aware of social –political development in the country. Counsel children, lead activities and enhance learning experience.Developed and implemented daily and unit lesson plans for 8th, 9th, 10th 11th and 12th grade, administered tests and evaluations, and analyzed student performance. Conducted group/individual reading, social science activities in the class.Fostered a classroom environment conducive to learning and promoting excellent student/teacher interaction.
Lovely Professional University 2013, worked as Assistant Professor and International Student Coordinator in which concealing is being provided to students, help in Organising ‘one India’ and ‘one World’ Event for the students to make them more aware of socio-political development around the world. Conducted Group discussions on General issues. Taught International Relations and Politics of Developing Countries to Masters Classes.
Participation/Presentations in Seminars and Conferences.
2015- Paper Presented on “Moral Geographies of hope: en route Climate Refugees” in Human Migration and the Environment: Futures, Politics, Invention, Durham University, United Kingdom from 28th June – 1st July.
2015 Paper Presented on “Climate Migration from Bangladesh to India: A Protection Framework” in the fifth National Conference on Protection of Refugees in India: quest for National Refugee Law held at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata from 27 February -1 March.
2015 Paper presented on “impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Human Rights” in the International seminar on Human Rights National and International perspectives organized by National University of Advanced Legal Studies at Kalamassery, Kochi, Kerala India 19-21 March.
2014 Participated in the SNU-INDAS Conference on Perspectives Dialogues and Challenges: India, Japan and the making of Modern Asia, 13-15 December, New Delhi.
2014 Participated in the discussion on the science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and its implications for India, 6th August 2014 at the India Habitat Centre (IHC), Silver Oak Hall, New Delhi.
2013 Paper presented on “Geopolitics of Fear and Climate Displacements: Perspectives on and from Small Island Developing States (SIDs)”in the Annual Convention of the Indian Association of International Studies titled ‘Re-imagining Global Orders: Perspectives from the South’ held at JNU, New Delhi on 10-12 December.
2012 Paper presented on ‘Climate change Migrations in South Asia” in the Annual convention of the India Association of International Studies Titled The Dawning of the Asian Century: Emerging Challenges before Theory and Practices of IR in India held at India International centre, New Delhi on 10-12.
2012- Paper presented on “Climate Change ‘Migrations’ in South Asia: Challenges for Indian Foreign Policy” at the National conference on New frontiers of Indian Foreign Policy held on 15-16 March 2012, organized by the department of Political Science, Panjab university, Chandigarh.
2011 - Paper presented on Imagined Geographies of Climate Change Induced Displacements and Migrations: A Case Study of Tuvalu at the Ninth Orientation Programme on Forced Migration organized by Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group.
2011 - Participated in the Ninth Orientation Programme on Forced Migration organized by Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group and supported by the UNHCR, the Government of Finland and the Brookings Institution (1 September-15 December).
2011 - Paper presented in Third Chandigarh Social Science congress on Climate Change and Securitization of Migration at the Department of Political Science Panjab University Chandigarh (India).
2011 - Paper Presented on E-Learning Education in the two days seminar organised by the University School of Open Learning (USOL) and ICSSR sponsored on "Distance Education and National Mission of Education through Information Communication Technology (ICT) for Sustainable Development.
2011 - Paper Presented on Technology, Climate Change and Society in the two days National Seminar organised by Centre for Advanced studies Department of Sociology on “Environment, Society and Technology”.
2009 - Participated in the Fifth Annual international conference at Osmania University (Hyderabad) of Indian Ocean Research Group on “Climate Change in Indian Ocean Region: Geopolitics Energy and Security”.
Publications:
2015(Forth Coming) Article inInternational Academy for Social Sciences, Bangkok.
Imagined Geographies of Climate Change Induced Displacements and Migrations: A Case Study of Tuvalu.
2014 Article in Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration OxMo Vol 4, No 2 December issue titled Overcoming the Partition Trauma.
2014 Article in Haryana Review December-January issue titled on “Giving Migrants their due” Vol 28, Issue 12 December.
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2014 Article Published in Haryana Review June-July vol28 Issue6-7 titled Ways to Adapt to Climate Change –IPCC 2014.
2014 Article published in Journal of Social Science “Climate Change ‘Migrations’ in South Asia: Challenges for Indian Foreign Policy” Panjab UniversityISBN 0251 – 348X.
2014 Article published in daily post India Titled The Warmest Year Dated 24 January Available on:
2013 Article published in Daily post India Titled The ‘Pacific Gift’ Dated 25 October Available on
2013 Article published in APPRN Tilted ‘Climate Refugees and Legal Frameworks’ Dated June 24.
2013 Article Published in Daily Post Titled “Climate refugees need help” Dated 14-01-2013
2012 Article Published in Daily Post Titled “Revenge of Mother Earth” Dated 8- November.
2012 Article Published in Daily Post Titled “Climate Change in Arctic is real” Dated 14 –September.
2012 Article Published in South Asia Post Issue 163, Vol VII July 15, 2012 Titled “Climate change adversely affecting crops in Punjab”.
2012 Article Published in Haryana Review Vol 26, Issue7 “Cover Against Wrath of nature”.
2012 Article Published in Mainstream weekly Vol, No 23, May 26, Titled “Globalization, Migration, Trafficking: Gender Perspective”.
2012Article Published in Daily Post Titled “Growing Isolation of elderly in society” Dated 12-May.
2012 Article Published in Haryana Review Vol 26 Issue 4 “Overcoming the Partition trauma”.
2012 Article Published in Daily Post Titled “Climate change and rising water woes” Dated 10 March.
2012 Article Published in Daily Post Titled “Natural Disasters and Insurance” Dated 13 February.
2012 Article Published in Daily Post Titled “Captive Creators in IT world” Dated 25 January.
2011 Article Published in Haryana Review Vol 25 Issue 11, Titled “East looks west”.
2011 Article Published in Haryana Review Vol 25, Issue 10, November, Titled “Dussehra-Triumph of good over evil”.
2011 Article Published in Daily Post Titled “Not a refugee, yet seeking refuge” Dated 12-November.
2011 Article Published in Daily Post Titled “From Himalayan home to Indian brothel” Dated 13-October.
2011 Article Published in Daily Post Titled “Globalization and its impact on younger Generation” Dated 2-September.
2011 Article Published in Daily Post Titled “Technology, Society and Climate Change” Dated 25- August.
2011 Article Published in Daily Post Titled “Labor migration on a rise in India” Dated 11-August.
2011Article Published in Haryana Review Vol 25, Issue8, August, Titled “Moving in search of greener pastures”.
2011 Article Published in Haryana Review Vol 25, Issue 6, June ,titled “Reduce your carbon footprints”.
2011 Article Published in South Asia Post VOL VI, Issue 133, April, titled “No signs of change?”
2011 Article Published in Haryana Review VOL25, Issue3, March, titled “Let the Girl Child to be born”.
2011 - Article Published in Haryana Review VOL 25, Issue2, February, Titled “Just feel her Pain”.
2010 - Article Published in Mainstream weekly VOL XLVIII, No 51, December 11, Titled “Understanding the Status of Climate Change and Refugees”.
2010 - Article Published in Naya Lokyug and Himprabha, Chandigarh 27 October, Titled “Aardikh vikas ki Asamanyatay Aur Jalvayu Parivartan”.
2010 - Article Published in Yug Marg, Chandigarh September 25, Titled “Understanding the status of climate change and refugees”.
Membership
Member of International Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights,
Member of Asia pacific Refugee Right Network Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) 7th floor, 81 Ploy Mitr building, Sukhumvit soi 2 Bangkok10110 Thailand.
Member of Community Help Community Committee, Bangkok.
Member of International Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights.
Computer Skills
•Operating Systems : Windows 2000, windows 2007 Windows XP, Windows Vista, MS DOS
•Office Package : Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access.
Academic Referees
Professor Sanjay Chaturvedi, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160 014, India. E-mail:
Professor Ronki Ram,Department of Political Science Panjab University
Chandigarh - 160 014, India.
E-mail:
Martin Jones, Lecturer in International Human Rights LawCentre for Applied Human Rights
University of York, York, UK. YO10 5GDWeb:
Phil Steinberg, Professor of Political Geography, Durham UniversityDirector, IBRU: Durham University’s Centre for Borders Research
+44 191 334 1945.