Prof. Pradip Swarnakar | Climate and Energy Policy Research | IIT Kanpur

Talks

Invited Lecture

“Stakeholders Perspectives on Just Transition in India”, DST-Centre for Policy Research, NISER Bhubaneswar, 06 September 2023.
“Stakeholders Perspectives on Just Transition in India”, The Centre for Environmental Justice, CSU Lory Student Centre, Room 322, Colorado State University Denver, 25 August 2023.
“Localising Just Transition”, World Sustainable Development Summit 2022, February 17, 2022.
“Just transition in India”, TERI-KAS National Workshop on “India’s energy scenario- 2040 and beyond”, Leh, Union Territory of Ladakh, 5-9 September 2021.
“Climate policy and extreme weather events in India”, Oxford-PHFI seminar series on Social Policy and Environmental Health, organized in collaboration between the University of Oxford and the Public Health Foundation of India, 29 July 2021.
“Just transition in India”, panel discussion on “Just Transition–Planning for a Post Coal Future”, organized by The Energy Resource Institute (TERI), 24th June 2021.
“Energy justice”, panel discussion on “Furthering Environmental Justice Perspectives in Our Research,” organized by Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 14 April 2021.
“Quantitative and qualitative methods of social science to study climate change policy”, PhD Workshop: Problems of Method in Climate and Energy Research, Climate Justice Research Centre, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Room 113, Building 10(9), 4 June 2019.
“India's climate movement: Dynamics, proxies, possibilities”, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Room 203, Building 10, Level 14, 23 May 2019.
“From Climate Crisis to Political Crisis: Climate Policy Networks and State Extractivism in Australia”, Climate Change and Energy Futures Workshop, The Nexus Centre, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, 11 October 2018 (with J Goodman, F da Rimini).
“Crowding-in: How and why Indian civil society organizations mobilized on climate change”, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, USA, LES Building R-380, 9 May 2018.
“Sustainability 3.0: Looking beyond top-down and bottom-up approach”, Humanities and Social Science Association Speaker Series, University of California Berkeley, March 26, 2018 (with S Zavestoski).
“Actors, narratives and frames: Computational text analysis in climate change news reporting”, Computational Text Analysis Group, Barrows Hall 356B, University of California Berkeley, February 7, 2018.
“Sustainability 3.0: Looking beyond top-down and bottom-up approach”, Sustainability Café, Lo Schiavo Science Center, University of San Francisco, California, November 16, 2017.
“‘Bottom-up' approaches to sustainable development: Alternative perspectives from global South”, Global and Regional Studies, Galilio Hall, Saint Mary’s Colleage, California, November 8, 2017.
“Crowding-in: How and why Indian civil society organizations mobilized on climate change”, University of Gothenburg, Department of Sociology and Work Science, 17 March 2016.
“Sustainability Experimentation Venture Network (SEVeN): Nurturing local knowledge for global change”, Tervapääsky, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Mechelinkatu, Helsinki 14 October 2015.
“Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks: An Overview”, (with Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, Antti Gronow and Anna Kukkonen) Brown Bag seminar, Seminar Room 344, Unioninkatu 35, Faculty of Social Science, University of Helsinki, 15 October 2015.
“Sociology of Contamination: Overview of past and present”, Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, 17 June 2013.
“Social Theories of Risk: A Critical Appraisal”, Public Lecture at Jamsetji Tata Centre for Disaster Management, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, 18 September 2008.

Selected Conference Presentations

Swarnakar, P., Mangang, N.N., and Pai, S. (2023). Unions’ Perspectives on Just Transition in India. 118th Annual Meeting: The Educative Power of Sociology, August 17-21, 2023. American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, USA.
Swarnakar, P. and Mangang, N.N. (2023). From Coal to Renewables: A Study of the Perspectives of Indian Coal Industry’s Labour Unions. June 25-July 1, 2023. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Melbourne, Australia.
Swarnakar, P. and Shukla, R. (2023). Tracing Policy Changes in the Indian Climate Justice Discourse: Comparing policy beliefs and advocacy coalition during Copenhagen, Paris, and Glasgow Climate Conferences. International COMPON Workshop, 21- 24 March 2023, Institute of Political Sciences - University of Tübingen
Swarnakar, P. and Shukla, R. (2022). Domestic and international policy connectors in Indian climate policy: The role of environmental civil society organizations, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) University of Innsbruck, 22-26 August 2022.
Swarnakar, P., Mukherjee, S., Kumar, A. and Lahsen, M. (2022). Collaboration networks, structural holes, and homophily: Dynamics of Non-State Actors in the UN Climate Change Side-Events, 117th Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, 5-9, August 2022, Los Angeles, California.
Shukla , R. and Swarnakar, P. (2022). Energy Transition and Dialectics: Tracing Discursive Resistance to Coal through Discourse Coalition in India, 117th Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, 5-9, August 2022, Los Angeles, California.
Singh, M. K., Swarnakar, P. and Mangang, N. N. (2022). Localizing Just Energy Transition Debate: Qualitative Network Analysis of Trade Unions with Other Stakeholders in Two Coal-Dependent Districts of India, 17th EASA Biennial Conference, EASA2022: Transformation, Hope and the Commons, 26-29 July, 2022, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom.
Singh, M. K., Swarnakar, P. and Mangang, N. N. (2022). Localizing Just Energy Transition Debate: Qualitative Network Analysis of Trade Unions with Other Stakeholders in Two Coal-Dependent Districts of India, 42nd International Social Networks Conference: Sunbelt 2022, 12-16 July 2022, Cairns, Australia.
Sarkar, P. and Swarnakar, P. (2022). Science in Policy-making: Examining the opinion of Scientists on Innovation and Development of Solar Energy in India, 3rd International Conference on Energy Research and Social Sciences (Elsevier), 20-23 June 2022, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Shukla , R. and Swarnakar, P. (2022). Energy Justice in Post-Paris India: Unpacking the Discursive Consensus and Conflict through Storylines and Discourse Coalitions, 3rd International Conference on Energy Research and Social Sciences (Elsevier), 20-23 June 2022, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Swarnakar, P., Burman, V., Singh, M. K., and Shukla, R. (2022). Missing in Transition: An Exploration of Gender Gap in the Coal-based Economy from the Two States of India, 3rd International Conference on Energy Research and Social Sciences (Elsevier), 20-23 June 2022, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Shukla, R. and Swarnakar, P. (2022). Energy Justice in Post-Paris India: Unpacking the Discursive Consensus and Conflict through Storylines and Discourse Coalitions, 7th Conference of the Network of Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST Conference 2022), 5-6 May 2022, Lyon, France.
Swarnakar, P. (2021). The Role of Indian Civil Society Organization on Climate Change and Justice, Virtual IV ISA Forum of Sociology, February 23-28, 2021.
Swarnakar, P. and Kumar, A. (2021). Structure, Institutions and Organizations: Intricacies of Climate Change Policy Network in India, Virtual IV ISA Forum of Sociology, February 23-28, 2021.
Swarnakar, P. Shukla, R. (2020). Indian Media Discourse of Climate Change Policy Networks During the 2015 Paris Agreement, 14^th General Conference of European Consortium for Political Research (Virtual), August 24-28, 2020, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Satoh, K., Swarnakar, P. Kumar, A. Trencher, G. (2020). Climate Change Policy Network and Policy Cleavage Structure: India and Japan Comparison (page 59), 115^th Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association (Virtual), August 8-11, 2020 in San Francisco, USA.
Swarnakar, P. Zavestoski, S. (2019). Towards a Definition and Typology of Sustainability Experiments: A Critical Review, (page 102), 114^th Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, August 10-13, 2019 in New York, USA.
Broadbent, J., Swarnakar, P. (2019). Social Futures and Sociological Response: Climate Change, (page 139), 114^th Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, August 10-13, 2019 in New York, USA.
Swarnakar, P., Mukherjee, S. (2019). Dynamics of collaboration: A social network analysis of non-state actors in United Nations climate change side-event meetings, 5^th International Conference on Computational Social Science, IC2S2 July 17-20, 2019, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Talukdar, R. Swarnakar, P. (2018). Civil Society and Climate Change Movement in India: A Critical Evaluation of Development-Environment Dialectic from Rio to Paris, Narratives of Climate Change Symposium, at the University of Newcastle, Australia, July 5-6, 2018. and XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada, July 15-21, 2018.
Zavestoski, S. Swarnakar, P. (2018) Transition for Whom? a Socio-Political Class Analysis of the Sustainability Transition Literature, XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada, July 15-21, 2018.
Da Rimini, F., Goodman, J., Swarnakar, P. (2018). Mapping a Laggard: Climate Policy Networks in Australia, Annual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science, 4S, Sydney, Australia, August 29-September 1, 2018.
Swarnakar, P. Ylä-Anttila, T. (2016). Social Movement Organizations, Epistemic Communities or a “Third Sector”? the Divergent Roles of Indian Civil Society Organizations in Policy Networks of Climate Change, ISA Forum of Sociology, 10-14 July 2016, Vienna, Austria.
Kukkonen, A. Swarnakar, P. (2016). Climate Change Discourse Networks in the North and South: Comparing the US, Canada, Brazil and India, ISA Forum of Sociology, 10-14 July 2016, Vienna, Austria.
Swarnakar, P., Gross, M., Bleicher, A. (2014). Trust me if you can: trust as strategic tool for decision making to deal with ignorance and uncertainty in contaminated sites of Germany and India. XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, 13-19 July 2014, Yokohama, Japan.
Swarnakar, P., Pellissery, S., Broadbent, J. (2014). Locating the media discourse of climate change policy network in India during 2007-2010. XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, 13-19 July 2014, Yokohama, Japan.
Broadbent, J., Swarnakar, P., Jin, J. (2014). Comparing Climate Change Discourse Coalitions: Brazil, China and India in Comparative Context. ASA Annual Meeting, 16-19 August 2014, San Francisco, USA.
Bhardwaj, N., Shukla, A., Swarnakar, P. (2014). Users' Sentiment Analysis in Social Media Context using Natural Language Processing, The International Conference on Digital Information, Networking, and Wireless Communications (DINWC2014) (pp. 103-111). The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communication.
Swarnakar, P. (2012). Locating climate controversies: Mapping climate change policy network in India during 2007-2010, Lund Conference on Earth System Governance, 18-20 April 2012, Lund, Sweden.
Swarnakar, P. (2011). Risk, blame and trust: Social construction of groundwater arsenic contamination in West Bengal, India, German Environmental Sociological Summit, 16-18 November 2011, Goethe University Frankfurt (Main), Germany.
Swarnakar, P. (2010). Does perception matter? Governing groundwater arsenic contamination in West Bengal, India, ISA 2010 World Congress of Sociology, 11-17 July 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Swarnakar, P. Sharma, A. K. (2010). Measuring environmental awareness through new ecological paradigm model” presented at National Symposium on “Advances in Environmental Monitoring and Modelling, 13-15 May 2010, Department of Environmental Science Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
Swarnakar, P. (2008). Are we drinking poison? Understanding the notion of risk perception with reference to groundwater arsenic contamination in West Bengal state of India, Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Annual Meeting, 7-10 December 2008, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Swarnakar, P. Chatterjee, J. (2007). Changing paradigm of craft cluster: Impact of societal change in the era of globalization”, 8th APSA Conference: Asia Pacific Region: Societies in Transformation, 19-22 November 2007, Penang, Malaysia.
Swarnakar, P. Sharma, A. K. (2007). Socio-ecology of domestic water consumption in India: A comparative study of scarcity and contamination regions, German Environmental Sociology Summit 007: International and Interdisciplinary Challenges, 8-10 November 2007, University of Lüneburg, Germany.
Pattanaik, D, Swarnakar, P. Chatterjee, J. (2007). Knowledge and innovation for global competitiveness and the business ecosystem model - a case study on Indian handicraft clusters, 4th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM), 27-28 August 2007, Vienna, Austria.
Swarnakar, P. (2007). Environmental Sociology in India: A Critical Review of Society-Environment Research and its Future, National seminar on Natural Resources of Sustainability of Indian Society, 27-28 February 2007, Department of Sociology, Shivaji University, Kolhapur.
Swarnakar, P. (2006). Social Theory and Risk Perception: Contributions of Ulrich Beck and Mary Douglas, XXXII All India Sociological Conference, 27-29 December 2006, University of Madras, Chennai.
Swarnakar, P. Sharma, A. K. (2006). Understanding Environmental Concern: A Study Using New Environmental Paradigm Scale”, International Conference on Emerging Population Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region: Challenges for the 21st Century, 10-13 December 2006, Mumbai.
Swarnakar, P. (2006). Risk, Awareness and Response: An Exploratory Study of People’s Attitude towards Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in West Bengal, India, World Congress of Sociology, 23-29 July 2006, Durban, South Africa.
Swarnakar, P. Sharma, A. K. (2006). Understanding Environmental Concerns: An Indian Experience of Sustainable Domestic Water Consumption, Sustainable Consumption and Society, 2-3 June 2006, Department of Rural Sociology and the Agroecology Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Swarnakar, P. Sharma, A. K. (2006). Drinking Dearth in Groundwater: Social Sufferings of Women in an Arsenic Contaminated District of West Bengal, XXXII All India Sociological Conference, 27-29 December 2006, University of Madras, Chennai.