CHAPTER TITLES
CONTRIBUTORS AND AFFILIATIONS
1. Introduction: The Reality of Social Exclusion and Policy of Inclusion
Smita Mishra Panda Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha (India)
Supriya Pattanayak
Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha (India)
I POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION
2. From Lords of a sort to Illegal Occupants: Story of Tribes in India
Virginius Xaxa
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Assam (India)
3. Triple Oppression and Exclusion: Middle East Women in the USA
Huma Ahmed Ghosh
San Diego University
USA
4. The Everyday Fault Lines of Inclusion and Exclusion in Delhi: Of Othering, Counter Voices and a Politics of Resistance
Bobby Luthra Sinha
Independent Researcher
New Delhi (India)
5. Globalisation and Social Polarisation: Global Labour Flows of Domestic Workers within the Southeast Asian Region
Shahed Khan
Curtin University
Perth (Australia)
6. Witch Hunting Practice in Tribal Societies of Odisha: Exploring Remedy to an Incorrigible Malady
Sabita Acharya
Utkal University
Odisha (India)
II INCLUSIONARY POLICY OUTCOMES
7. MGNREGA in Odisha: Social Inclusion and Exclusion Challenges
Supriya Pattanayak
Centurion University of Technology and Management
Odisha (India)
8. Exploitation of Hydrocarbons and Social Vulnerability in Veracruz, Mexico
Maria Victoria Chenaut
Centre for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology
Mexico
9. Enclosure of Lake Commons and Socio-economic Exclusion of Fisheries: An illustration from Kerala, India
N.C.Narayanan
Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay (India)
10. When Welfare goes Hand in Hand with Social and Economic Exclusion in Quebec, Canada
Eric Gagnon Poulin
Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
III PERSISTENT CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION
11. Encountering Urban Spaces: Social Exclusion of Youth in India
Ragnhild Lund
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway)
Smita Mishra Panda
Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha (India)
12. The Vulnerability of Widows in South Asia: Need for Inclusion.
Swarnamayee Tripathy
Utkal University
Odisha (India)
13. Redefining Transgender Identity in the face of Social Exclusion: Insights from Odisha, India
Smita Mishra Panda
Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha (India)
Payal Nayak
Visiting Faculty, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha (India)
14. Senior Citizen Homes in India: An Example of Social Exclusion from Odisha, India
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Smita Mishra Panda is Director Research at the Centurion University of Technology and Management, Bhubaneswar Odisha. She has a background in Social Anthropology and Development Planning. A gold medalist from University of Delhi, she has several national and international awards to her credit. Her broad areas of teaching and research for over 25 years include gender and development, natural resource management, local governance and livelihoods of the underprivileged.
Dr. Smita was Researcher with the Asian Institute of Technolgy (Bangkok, Thailand) and United Nations Centre for Regional Development (Nagoya, Japan). She has taught at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (Gujarat). She has been Visiting Faculty at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, (Norway), Monash University (Australia) and Curtin University (Australia).
Annapurna Pandey is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz (USA). She has also taught for a decade at the San Jose State University and has spent a teaching Semester at Sea sponsored by the University of Virginia. She has been Senior Fulbright Scholar in India as well. Her areas of research and teaching include gender and Indian diaspora in the USA and indigenous communities in India.
Supriya Pattanayak is Vice Chancellor of Centurion University of Technology and Management, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. She is trained in Social Work and has extensive teaching, research and policy experience. Her research interest is in the field of gender and development issues, and social work pedagogy. She has worked with NGOs, multilateral and bilateral agencies, federal and state governments. In her role as State Representative (Odisha), Department for International Development India (British High Commission), she collaborated with various development partners in pursuance of harmonization of development efforts and achievement of MDGs. She has taught in Australian Universities and been Visiting Research Fellow at the St Petersburg State University, Russia.