"Community Development and Conservation: Status of the Implementation of Forest Rights Act in Two States of India", Paper presented in the "Development Studies Association of IRELAND (DSA IRELAND), at the Annual Conference 2016 "Beyond Aid? Innovative Models for Social Justice" held at Dublin, Ireland from 24- 25, December 2016. Abstract published in the conference proceedings.
Selected Conference Organization & Chairing in
International Conferences:
Selected paper presentations in National
& International Conferences:
Nandigama, S., (2019). "Forest rights as drivers of livelihood security of the forest dependent communities: An ethnographic account of the implementation of Forest Rights Act across three states of India and its impact on the formal and the informal forest management practices." August 23-25, 2019, in Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA), and hosted by the University of Michigan, USA.
Nandigama, S., (2018). “Framing the institutional complexity in the Forest Rights Act's (FRA) implementation in India: Making sense of how FRA interacts with the other parallel FM institutions." FLARE 4th Annual Meeting, during October 17- 20, 2018 held at the Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Nandigama, S., (2017). "Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Evaluate Community Forestry Interventions in South Asia: An Experiential Account". Paper presented in the 3rd Annual International Meeting of FLARE conducted at the Stockholm University, Sweden from 29th Sep- 2nd October, 2017.
Nandigama, S.,"Community Development and Conservation: Status of the Implementation of Forest Rights Act in Two States of India", Paper presented in the "Development Studies Association of IRELAND (DSA IRELAND), at the Annual Conference 2016 "Beyond Aid? Innovative Models for Social Justice" held at Dublin, Ireland from 24- 25, December 2016.
Nandigama, S.,"Gender Inequality in Higher Education in India and the Netherlands: A comparative study of the challenges and opportunities faced by women academics.", Paper presentation in the International Conference: 2nd WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN’S STUDIES at Colombo, Sri Lanka, 5th-6th May 2016.
Nandigama, S., “Performance of success and Failure at the grassroots Conservation and Development Interventions: Gender dynamics in Participatory Forest Management in India” paper presented at the Pathways to Shared Prosperity for Forest Users and Forest-Reliant Economies- FLARE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE organized by the University of Michigan and PROFOR at the Musée de l'Homme, in PARIS, FRANCE, November 27-30, 2015.
Nandigama, S., “Women and Equity in Higher Education: A Comparative
Study of Practices in Indian and Dutch Academia" paper presented in the
National Conference held by the National Commission for Women (National
Seminar) on ‘Capacity Building Among Women in India: Entrepreneurship and
Estate’ on 2-3 October, 2015 at National Law University, Jodhpur.
Nandigama, S., “How Green are We? Role of Stakeholders, their
Lifestyles, Values and Practices in Informing Investment Behaviour in the
Indian Context”. Paper presented in the UGC sponsored National Seminar on
‘Investing in a Sustainable Future: Integrating Environmental, Social and
Governance Factors’ to be held on 24th and 25th April, 2015 at B.M.Ruia Girls'
College, Mumbai.
Nandigama, S., “Gender mainstreaming in practice: Spatialities of
women’s participation and the performance of success”. Paper presented in
Interpretative Policy Analysis (IPA2012) Annual Conference held at Tilburg, The
Netherlands 06.06.2012.
Nandigama, S., “Revisiting participatory community forestry: Role of
actor-networks, informal norms and practices, and elite-control in Community
forest management”. Paper presented in 40th IIS World Congress (AC2012) Annual
Conference held at New Delhi, India 18.02.2012.
Nandigama, S., “Revisiting participatory community forestry: Role
of actor-networks; informal norms and practices; and elite control in community
forest management.” Paper presented in Interpretative Policy Analysis (IPA2011)
Annual Conference held at Cardiff, United Kingdom on 23.06.2011.
Nandigama, S., “Local elites and social transformations in participatory
community forest management in Andhra Pradesh, India.“ paper presented at Royal
Geographical Society’s Annual Conference (RGS-IBG: AC2011) at London, UK on 01.09.2011.
Williams,
G., Nandigama, S., Bhattacharya,
D.,Thampi, B.V., Narayana, D., “Managing
political space: party practices, marginalized people's agency and the
governance of rural West Bengal.” Paper presented in a Workshop on ‘Rethinking
India’s Local Governance Poverty, Participation and Political Society’, at
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India on 22-10-2010.
Williams,
G.,Thampi, B.V., Narayana, D., Nandigama, S., Bhattacharya, D., “The
Politics of Defining Poverty and Its Alleviation: questioning state strategies
through grassroots voices in Kerala”, Conference Paper presented at ‘Ten Years
of War Against Poverty Conference’, Manchester University, UK, 8th - 10th
September 2010.
Nandigama, S., “Invited spaces and informal practices in
participatory community forest management in India”, paper presented at Royal
Geographical Society’s Annual Conference (RGS-IBG: AC2010) at London, UK on 31.08.2010.
Nandigama, S., “Whose call it is? Making sense of success and
failure in participatory community forest management intervention in Andhra
Pradesh, India.” Paper presented in Interpretative Policy Analysis (IPA2010)
Annual Conference held at Grenoble, France on 25.06.2010.
Coordinator of international summer schools bringing together PhD,
Post-Doc researchers and practitioners in the field of forest and nature
conservation and management.
Coordinated the following summer
schools for PhDs/Post-Docs and Practitioners
- International
(FNP& WASS) Summer School on ‘Participatory Forest Management as Practice
and Performance’, July 11-15, 2011, at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
- International
(FNP& FGV) Summer School on ‘Power, Knowledge and performance in
participatory forest management’, June 23-30, 2012, at FGV, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazi.