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PRAKASH KASHWAN

Department of Political Science,

University of Connecticut, Storrs

365 Fairfield Way, U-1024, Storrs, CT 06269

Phone: (860) 486-7951 Email: prakash.kashwan@uconn.edu

CURRENT APPOINTMENT

2011- Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut

FACULTY AFFILIATIONS

Member, Academic Working Group on International Governance of Climate Engineering, School of International Services, American University

The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Bloomington

Asian American Studies Institute (AASI), University of Connecticut

Economic and Social Rights Group (ESRG), University of Connecticut

International Studies, Global Affairs, University of Connecticut

India Studies, University of Connecticut, Member of the Advisory Board

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Public Policy, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2011

Fields: International Environmental Policy; Public Policy; Theory & Methods
M.S. Forestry Management, Indian Institute of Forest Management, India, 1999
B.Sc. Physics, Mathematics, and Electronics, Jai Narain Vyas University, India, 1996

BOOK

Kashwan, Prakash. (Forthcoming). Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico. New York: Oxford University Press.


PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Kashwan, Prakash. (Forthcoming). Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment: A Cross-National Analysis. Ecological Economics.


Kashwan, Prakash. (Forthcoming). What explains the demand for collective forest rights amidst land use conflicts? Journal of Environmental Management.
Kashwan, Prakash. (2016). Power Asymmetries and Institutions: Landscape Conservation in Central India. Regional Environmental Change, 16, S97–S109
Kashwan, Prakash. (2016). Integrating Power in Institutional Analysis: A Micro-Foundation Perspective. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 28(1), 5-26.
Kashwan, Prakash. (2015). Forest Policies, Institutions, and REDD+ in India, Tanzania, and Mexico. Global Environmental Politics, 15(3), 95-117.
Kashwan, Prakash, and Robert Holahan. (2014). Nested governance for effective REDD+: Institutional and political arguments. International Journal of the Commons, 8 (2).
Kashwan, Prakash. (2014). Studying Local Representation: A Critical Review. Working Paper No.4; Responsive Forest Governance Initiative; Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) & University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Also translated to Arabic.
Kashwan, Prakash 2013. The Politics of Rights-based Approaches in Conservation. Land Use Policy, 31: 613-626.
Charles M. Schweik, Maria T. Fernandez, Michael P. Hamel, Prakash Kashwan, Quentin Lewis, and Alexander Stepanov. 2009. "Reflections of an Online Geographic Information Systems Course Based on Open Source Software." Social Science Computer Review 27 (1): 118-129.

ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS/WORKING PAPERS
Kashwan, Prakash, and Timothy R. Bussey. Forthcoming. "Taming a Machiavellian State? International Environmental Governance and Domestic Policymaking in India and Mexico." In Handbook of Environmental Governance, ed. Alka Sapat: Routledge
Kashwan, Prakash, and Robert Holahan. Forthcoming. “Nested Governance for Effective REDD+: Institutional and Political Arguments.” In Daniel Cole and Michael McGinnis (Ed.), Frameworks and Methods of Institutional Analysis. Lexington Books.
Kashwan, Prakash. 2014. "Botched-up Development and Electoral Politics in India." Economic & Political Weekly XLIX (34):48-55.

Kashwan, Prakash and Lobo, Viren. 2014. Of rights and regeneration: The politics of governing forest and non-forest commons. S. Lele and Ajit Menon (Eds.), Democratizing Forest Governance: Rethinking the Forest Question in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.


Kashwan, Prakash 2013. "Greening a Machiavellian State? Insights for International Environmental Governance." Political Sciences & Public Affairs 1 (2).
Kashwan, Prakash and Robert Holahan. 2011. ‘REDD Blues’: Trading in Carbon Credits without Trading off Sustainability. Working Paper-W11-16. Bloomington, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.
Kashwan, Prakash (2009). "Just Environments: Analyzing the Politics of Policy-making on Environment and Development." India Economic Review VI: 60-67.
Kashwan, P. and R. C. Sharma. 2007. Rights over Kelo River Waters: People’s Struggle for Water Rights. Water Conflicts in India: A Million Revolts in the Making? K. J. Joy, S. Paranjape, B. Gujja, V. Goud and S. Vispute. New Delhi, Routledge India.
Kashwan, P. (2006). Participatory Panacea- Explaining and Learning from the Limited Success of Joint Forest Management Program in India. Working Paper-W06-3. Bloomington, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.
Kashwan, Prakash. (2006). Why Harda Failed: A Response. Economic and Political Weekly 41(24): 2497-2499.
Kashwan, Prakash. (2006). "Traditional Water Harvesting Structure: Community behind ‘Community’." Economic and Political Weekly 41(7).
Soeftestad, Lars T., and Prakash Kashwan. (2006). "CBNRM Net: From Managing Natural Resources to Managing Ecosystems, Knowledge and People." In Environmental Online Communication, ed. Arno Scharl, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series. London: Springer.

Kumar, A. and P. Kashwan. (2004). Comments on AgREN paper on “Improving Watershed Management in Developing Countries: A Framework for Prioritising Sites and Practices” (Perez and Tschinket, 2003). AgREN Newsletter. London, Overseas Development Institute.


Kashwan, P. (2004). Decolonizing the Commons: A Case Study of Kaliwali Village. Decolonizing the Commons. S. N. Bhise. New Delhi, National Foundation for India.
Kashwan, Prakash. (2003). "Conflicts in Joint Forest Management: Cases from South Rajasthan " Community Forestry 2(4).
Kashwan, P. (2000). Bada Bhilwada Joint Forest Management, A Case Study. Silvipasture Management Case Studies by Seva Mandir. N. Jain, R. Jindal, N. Negi, P. Kashwan and M. Vardhan. Kent, UK, Natural Resource Institute, University of Greenwich.
Kashwan, P. (1999). "Tribal Women's Participation in Farm Forestry - A Case Study." Yojna (a Journal published by the Planning Commission of India)

BLOGS/BOOK REVIEWS
2016: Against the odds: politicians, institutions and the struggle against poverty, Contemporary South Asia, DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2016.1213542
2015 “Who Benefits from REDD+? Lessons from India, Tanzania, and Mexico” New Security Beat. August 4, 2015. Wilson Center. https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2015/08/benefits-redd-lessons-india-tanzania-mexico/
2015. Book Review “Things Fall Apart? The Political Ecology of Forest Governance in Southern Nigeria by Pauline von Hellermann. Berghahn Books, Oxford, NY, 2013.” Journal of Ecological Anthropology 18 (1)

2014. "Crafting Institutional Reforms for International Development. Book Review: The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development: Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions by Matt Andrews. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2013." European Journal of Development Research 26 (4):552-4.


2014. India’s elections and the politics of development. Post-election commentary published at the MonkeyCage Blog (Washington Post). February 23, 2014 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/05/20/indias-elections-and-the-politics-of-development/
2014. Is ‘human rights’ the right approach for protecting the interests of forest-dependent people? Commentary published at rainforest blog Mongabay.com. February 23, 2014 http://blog.mongabay.com/2014/02/23/is-human-rights-the-right-approach-for-protecting-the-interests-of-forest-dependent-people/
2012. Do coalition governments bring economic stability? A Review of “Coalition Politics and Economic Development” by Irfan Nooruddin. Cambridge University Press, 2011. International Studies Review
2012. "Democracy in the Woods: The Politics of Forest Property Rights." GLP News: Newsletter of the Global Land Project (9).

2008. "Book Review: Changing Forests: Collective Action, Common Property, and Coffee in Honduras by Catherine Tucker; Springer." Conservation & Society 6(3).


2008. "Environmental Concerns: Book Review of Environmental Economics: Theory and Applications (Sage Texts) by Katar Singh, Anil Shishodia; Sage Publications, New Delhi (2007); and, Economic Development, Climate Change, and the Environment Edited by Ajit Sinha, Siddhartha Mitra; Routledge, New Delhi (2007)." The Book Review 32(8): 11-12.
TEACHING

Spring 2016 Political Issues – Environmental Policy and Institutions (POLS 2998)

Quantitative Analysis in Political Science (POLS 2072Q)
Fall 2015 Graduate seminar in Quantitative Methods of Political Science (POLS 5605)

Political Issues – Politics of Environment and Development (POLS 2998)


Spring 2015 Quantitative Analysis in Political Science (POLS 2072Q)

Political Issues – Environmental Policy and Institutions (POLS 2998)



GRANTS, AWARDS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2016 Public Discourse Fellowship, Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut: "Debating climate change: public opinion, institutions, and discourses." $13000

Scholarship Facilitation Fund Awards, UConn Office of the Vice President for Research $2000

India Studies grant for preparing book manuscript for publication $1200

The CLAS Institute Directors’ Fund for Interdisciplinary Research (FIRE), $1000

Department of Political Science Conference travel grant $1200

“Multi-level Environmental Governance: Land Use Change and Carbon Emissions,” UConn SHARE grant $2000 (Student Research Assistant: Edward McInerney)

2015 Department of Political Science Collaborative research and writing grant $1000

2014 Conference and travel grant for participation in the fifth “Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop” (WOW5), Indiana University, Bloomington, June 18–21, 2014.

University of Connecticut, Faculty Small Grant “Does International Environmental Governance Transform GO-NGO Collaboration in the Developing Countries?” $1500

University of Connecticut SHARE grant (spring 2014) ‘Beyond Nation States’ with honors student Marissa Piccolo $2000;

2013 Faculty Large Grant (University of Connecticut): The Socio-Economic, Ecological, and Political Drivers of Forest Land Rights in India. $15,000

Human Rights Institute Book Grant (University of Connecticut) $1000

University of Connecticut SHARE grants (a) ‘Beyond Nation States’ with honors student Matea Batarilo $2000; (b) ‘Could a Union Save This Planet? Coding and Analyzing ‘Sustainable Development’: Perspectives of the IUCN Members’ with honors student Carl D’Oleo-Lundgren $2000

Department of Political Science small grants: (1) Faculty Research Award $500 (2) Teaching Innovation Grant $500

2011-2012 Economic and Social Rights Group (ESRG), Summer Research Grant, $1250

Bennett Fund for honors summer research support $1000

Department of Political Science, Small Faculty Research Grant $500


2010-2011 Co-PI, SPEA Dean’s Seed Grant Award for “Green Carbon: Developing Local Institutional Artisanship for REDD+”; Co Principal-Investigator (with Elinor Ostrom and Colleagues), Indiana University $20,000

Travel grant to attend the biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons; Hyderabad, India from the Center for International Forestry Research and the International Forestry Resources and Institutions; $3,000.


2009 Travel & participation support from the International Social Science Council for the first World Social Science Forum, Bergen, Norway.
2008-09 Young Scientists’ Research Grant, International Foundation for Science (IFS), Stockholm. $10,500

Research Grant, Ford Foundation/ Institute of International Education (IIE). $11,000


2008 Best Policy Paper Award, Indiana University Political Science Graduate Student Conference; “Forest Policy in India and Mexico: From Centralization to Decentralization and Back?” With Gustavo Garcia-Lopez.
2007 International Enhancement Grant, The office of International Services, Indiana University. $1750
2005-06 Fellow, Workshop in Political Theory & Policy Analysis. $17,000
2005 Higher Education Travel Grant from Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, India. $1000
2000 Best Research Proposal Award. Sixth International Summer School on Management of Common Property Resources organized by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. June
1997-99 Graduate Fellowship, Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) & Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) Fellowship, Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), India

CONFERENCE PANELS, PRESENTATIONS, AND INVITED TALKS
2016 "Strategic Detours: Why Did India’s Forestland Rights Movements Transform into an Environmental Movement?" accepted in the panel Social Movements, NGOs and Political Representation. 24th International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress in Poznan. July 22-28th, 2016.

Discussant for the panel on “Democracy, Neoliberalism and the Politics of the New

Right in Asia.” 24th International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress in Poznan. July 22-28th, 2016.
“Conceptual and Policy Challenges of Land Rights in Sustainable Development Goals.” Economic & Social Rights Group (ESRG) Workshop, "Protecting Culture and Vulnerable Populations: The promise and limits of the UN Sustainable Development Goals." April 8-9, 2016 Storrs

2015 Inequality, Democracy, and the Protection of Nature: A Cross-National Analysis, Invited talk at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, August 5, 2015


Inequality, Democracy, and the Protection of Nature: A Cross-National Analysis, Invited talk at the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, July 14, 2015
Institutional Reforms and the Effective Delivery of Entitlements: Lesson from India and Beyond, Invited talk at the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi, July 23, 2015

Presented: “Inequality and the Environment: Political Economy of Nature Conservation amidst Power Asymmetries” at the panel on “Economics and the Environment in Comparative Politics.” Discussant at the following panels: Politics of Climate Adaptation; International Perspectives in Environmental Policy. Midwest Political Science Association National Conference, Chicago, April 2015.

2014 “Dismantling Causal Structures of Vulnerability: A Political Project”. Invited talk for a colloquium organized by the Geography & GIScience, Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL. November 14, 2014

Working Group Coordinator, “Power in Institutions and Institutional Analysis” for the fifth “Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop” (WOW5), Indiana University, Bloomington, June 18–21, 2014.

“Social Dimensions of Reforestation”, Presentation at the inaugural workshop of PARTNERS: People and Reforestation in the Tropics: a Network for Education, Research, and Synthesis, University of Connecticut, Storrs. May 22-25, 2014

“Institutional Political Economy of Land Acquisition in India”, the third Interdisciplinary symposium for Emerging Scholars on India China Studies. The New School New York, April 14, 2014.

“Political Forests on Ancestral Lands” Presented (via skype) at a Workshop on the comparative turn in climate change politics. London School of Economics, March 21.

2013 “Green Consumption: Potential and Pitfalls of Market-based Environmental Goods and Services” Talk delivered at the University of Connecticut, CLAS College Experience, The Environment: Health, Nature & Politics, October 4, 2013.

The Political Economy of Land Acquisition in China and India (co-authored with Yu Zheng), presented at the 2013 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 29 - September 1, Chicago

Power in Institutions and Institutional Analysis, Twin Panels organized for the 14th Global Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, Mt. Fuji, Japan, June 3 -June 7, 2013

“New Masters of Fire: A Comparative Analysis of the Negotiations over Household Land Rights” presented at the ‘Property and Citizenship Conference’, University of Copenhagen, May 28-31, 2013

“Red-Green Politics: Politics of Forest Rights in Comparative Perspective”, Seminar at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, May 24, 2013

“Penalize us, if that is what it takes: A comparative analysis of authority of the state in property rights reforms”. Talk at Political Science Faculty Research Colloquium Series, University of Connecticut, Storrs. March 27, 2013

“Poverty and Environment: What Types of Rights Matter?” Human Rights Institute Lunch Time Seminar. University of Connecticut, Storrs. March 11, 2013

“Radical Reforms: What do they miss?” Talk given at the Economic and Social Rights Research Group (ESRG) at University of Connecticut, Storrs. February 5, 2013.

2012 Organized (with Uday Chandra, Yale University) Workshop on Forests, Rights, and Insurgency in South Asia, University of Connecticut, Storrs, November 30, 2012.

"Why are governments keen to set aside national parks? The politics and political economy of nature conservation." In International Conference on Inequality and Sustainability. November 9–10. The Fletcher School, Tufts University.

Session Chair: ‘Environmental Movements in a Comparative Context’, at the Midwest Political Science Association National Conference, Chicago, April 2012.

Discussant: ‘Culture, Values, and Civil Society in Environmental Politics’, at the Midwest Political Science Association National Conference, Chicago, April 2012.

Resource Person, Research methodology for the Responsive Forest Governance Initiative; Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), International Union for Conservation (IUCN) and The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. January 2012

2011 Invited presentation Intimate Structures! The Politics of Representation amidst Local Power Asymmetries at the symposium on Representing Vulnerability: Maps, Narratives and Political Processes organized as part of the Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy (SDEP) initiative of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, September 2011.

Organized an international panel on the ‘Politics of Policy Making and Community Rights in the Commons’ at the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), Hyderabad, India, January 10-14.

Co-organized with Jes Weigelt, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, a panel on ‘Authority, Power, and Social Exclusion: Conceptual & Methodological Perspectives’ at the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), Hyderabad, India, January 10-14.

Intimate Structures! A Critical Gaze on the Causal Structures of Vulnerability. – Paper presented (via Skype) at the ICARUS II Conference, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 5-8.

Researching the Politics of Environment and Development in India –Invited lecture for Y343 Politics of International Development at the Department of Political Science, Indiana University, April 05.

Electoral Incentives for Environmental Justice - Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the 69th MPSA Political Science Conference, Chicago March 31-April 3.

2010 Forests in Flux: Analyzing Actor-Institution Linkages in Implementation of Forest Property Reforms – Paper presented at the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences Conference in Bloomington October 14-16.



Missing the Woods..? Critical Reflections on the Politics of Nature Society Interplay – Invited lecture for Y200 - The Politics of Sustainability Course at the Department of Political Science, Indiana University, October 11.

2009 Won in Parliament, Lost on the Ground: Explaining local decision making and the inter-linkages between forest conservation and forest rights in India - Poster presented at the first World Social Science Forum, Bergen, Norway. May 10-12.

REDD Blues’: Trading in Carbon Credits without Trading Off Sustainability’. Paper presented at the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE), Ahmadabad, India January

2008 Conservation Rules: Explicating Governance Effects of Conservation Regimes, paper presented at the Mid-west Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual National Conference, Chicago, April 3-6.

Invited guest lecture on ‘Decentralization and Community Forestry’, delivered at the Institutional Analysis (Macro) Seminar Y673, Department of Political Science, Indiana University. Spring 2008

2007 Invited guest lecture on Bureaucracy, Corruption, and Civil Society Movement on Right to Information; delivered for an undergraduate course on Bureaucracy and Corruption: Global Perspective. Department of Anthropology, Indiana University. Spring 2007



SCHOLARLY SERVICE

2016 Member, Editorial board, Sage Open.

2015 - Member, Editorial board, Journal of Political Sciences & Public Affairs.

2013 - Peer Review Panel, Routledge Books

Ongoing Peer review panels for journals (as listed below)


  • Global Environmental Politics

  • World Development

  • Land Use Policy

  • Journal of Agrarian Change

  • Journal of Human Rights

  • International Journal of Commons

  • Conservation & Society




  • Regional Environmental Change

  • Ecological Economics

  • Forest Policy & Economics

  • Forests

  • Society & Natural Resources

  • Environmental Management

  • Environmental Conservation




MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS/NETWORKS


  • American Political Science Association (APSA)

  • International Studies Association (ISA)

  • International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) & Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE)

  • International Association for the Study of Commons (IASC)

  • The IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)

  • Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

2016-17 Member, Merit Advisory Committee

Member, Search Committee, International Relations Position

Member, Executive Advisory Committee

Member, Colloquium Committee

2015-16 Member, Graduate Affairs Committee

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee

2014-15 Member, Graduate Admissions Committee

Member, Merit Points System Revisions Committee

2013-14 Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee

2012-13 Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee, and Research Methods Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut

Member, Search Committee, Asian Politics Search

2011-12 Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut

2010-11 Co-coordinator – Dissertation Research Group, Indiana University, Bloomington

2008 Coordinator – South Asia Working Group, Indiana University, Bloomington

2007 Coordinator – Development Working Group, Indiana University, Bloomington



PROFESSIONAL WORK (PRE-GRADUATE SCHOOL)

2004-2005 Independent Researcher and Consultant: Clients included Winrock International India, LEAD India, Oxfam India, and Ekta Parishad, India.

2003-2004 Program Associate, Ford Foundation, South Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

1999-2003 Development Professional, Seva Mandir, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India



1998 Management Intern, Jungle Lodges & Resorts Ltd., Bangalore; Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP), Gujarat, India

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