Dr Rajeswari S. Raina
Professor School of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Email: rajeswari.raina@snu.edu.in
My research interests are in the interface between economic development and the environment. I work on the sustainability and resilience of social and natural systems, substantive economics for a new planetary order, and science technology and society studies (STS) of agrifood systems. While these a...
Research Overview
My research interests are in the interface between economic development and the environment. I work on the sustainability and resilience of social and natural systems, substantive economics for a new planetary order, and science technology and society studies (STS) of agrifood systems. While these are located in inter-and trans-disciplinary theoretical frameworks, with alternative normative framings, I draw significantly from Veblenian institutional economics, international political economy, ecological economics, critical international relations theory, complexity studies and sustainability science. My recent research and publications, individually and as part of networks on agrarian studies and post-growth thinking, are on state-science relationships in Indian agriculture, post-growth agriculture, and the knowledge politics of sustainability transitions in local and national systems. I am currently finishing a book on the science and economics of Indian agriculture. Select sponsored research projects address the structural injustice of international innovation systems, international use and abuse of science, the contemporary history of state-science-civil society relationships, and sub-national knowledge-policy changes for sustainable agrifood systems. Know more: Click here
Education
1994 Ph.D. (Economics) Centre for Development Studies (CDS) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala University 1987 M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics and Marketing Management Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 1984 B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences, College of Agriculture, Kerala Agricultural University, Trichur 1984 Pre-Degree Course in Physics, Chemistry and Biology Government College for Women, University of Kerala, Trivandrum
Experience
2016 - 2017 Professor and Head of the Department, International Relations and Governance Studies in School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR 11/92 1992 - 2016 09/16 Principal Scientist, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, (NISTADS) 06/05 2005 - 2009 11/09 Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research Dharma Marg, Chanakyapuri 01/87 1987 01/87 Agricultural Officer, Grade II, Kerala Agricultural Extension, Project (KAEP) Office, Palghat Division, Department of Agriculture, Government of Kerala, 07/17 - Present Professor, Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University
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Community-led institutional innovation: Groundwater sharing, values and relationships in India's rainfed farming systems
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Raina, R.S.; Longino, H. | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 112, 102-111 | 2025 | 0 |
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Post-growth agrifood systems: Towards an emancipatory politics
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Raina, R.S.; Kachroo, R. | Review of International Studies, 50(5), 898-909 | 2024 | 1 |
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Conserving economics for biodiversity: Reflections on “the dasgupta review”
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Raina, R.S. | Ecology, Economy and Society, 4(2), 13-19 | 2021 | 2 |
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How we know biodiversity: institutions and knowledge-policy relationships
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Raina, R.S.; Dey, D. | Sustainability Science, 15(3), 975-984 | 2020 | 8 |
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Post-Growth in the Global South? Some Reflections from India and Bhutan
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Gerber, J.-F.; Raina, R.S. | Ecological Economics, 150, 353-358 | 2018 | 56 |
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Water governance reform a hopeful starting point
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Raina, R.S. | Economic and Political Weekly, 51(52), 38-40 | 2016 | 1 |
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Research contributions aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals:
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Awards & Honors
- Re-elected Vice President of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (in Dec. 2021). Appointed member of the Special Committee of the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, from April 2022-March 2025. Elected member, of the International Science Council (ISC) Regional Committee for Asia and the Pacific, of the International Science Council (ICSU), November 2018- November 2019. TN Khoshoo Memorial Award 2018 The theme of this year's award is Women in Sustainability which recognizes the exceptional contribution of women in sustainability research. (Award and lecture on the 19th of November 2018, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore).
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