Social Impact Assessment in India

Learning from the Field

Social Impact Assessment in India
A K Sinha, Ratika Thakur, Avanee Khatri
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h215 x 139mm - 396pg
14 Nov 2022 IND
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This book is a discourse on social impact assessment (SIA), an important tool for identifying and managing impacts of a development project. It provides an outlook on judicial, methodological and ethical complexities in SIA. The book also offers anthropological critique of SIA and collates experiences of practitioners and researchers from India, with the objective of sharpening SIA with redefined practices. Social Impact Assessment in India discusses direct and indirect impacts on project-affected people (displaced and relocated) and the role (ethical and financial) of funding agencies, including legalities and associated vulnerabilities. The strength of this book lies in its field-based approach revealing ground realities and the authors' reflections and insights on situations on the field, across different regions of India.
A. K. Sinha (Anil Kishore Sinha) is a professor of social anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh. His research interests include social anthropology, tribal studies, Gender Studies, anthropology of food, medical anthropology and impact assessment studies. He has over 35 years of experience in academics and research with over 140 research articles (published in national and international journals, including chapters in edited books), 14 books (co-authored and edited) and has contributed in different areas of research with two major research projects funded by organizations like UGC and alike. Intrigued by the influx of anthropology in development, he took special interest in SIA studies in the north Indian region and conducted four SIA studies as a PI and was appointed as a team member for two more projects. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in states/union territories of undivided Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab. He has supervised over 25 PhDs and has been a mentor of 4 post-doctoral fellows. Ratika Thakur is currently working as a senior research associate at the Centre of Excellence in Management in Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad. She is a PhD in anthropology from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her research interests are gender studies, impact assessment, impact evaluation and policy analysis. She has conducted and has been a part of different SIA and International Association of Impact Assessment. Avanee Khatri is currently working as a guest faculty in the Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, Punjab. She completed her Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) post-doctoral research in February 2022. She is a PhD in anthropology from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Over the years, she has done in-depth anthropological research in the domains of medical anthropology and applied/ developmental anthropology. She has also worked as a research associate in SIA project funded by Indian Railways. By far, she has published 14 research papers, 1 chapter in an edited book, authored 1 book and organized a national workshop.

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