Neera Singh, Associate Professor

Home Campus:
U of T St. George
PhD:
Michigan State University
Other Degrees:
Masters Degree in Forestry Management (India);
B.Sc (Mathematical Statistics) (India).
Contact Information:
Phone: (416) 971-2658
Fax: (416) 946-3886
Location: Room 5025A, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George)
Email: neera.singh@utoronto.ca
Research Interests:
- Conservation and development
- Commons and Commoning Practices
- Community forestry, forest rights and governance
- Environmental subjectivity; ethics of care and affective ecologies
- Social movements and environmental justice
- India
Teaching This Academic Year:
GGR 321: Indigenous Worlds, Worldviews and the Environment
GGR 419: Environmental Justice
SII 199: Nature, Conservation and Justice
GGR 1411: Nature and Justice in the Anthropocene
Selected Publications:
Refereed Articles
- Singh, N. (2017). Becoming a commoner: The commons as sites for affective socio-nature encounters and co-becomings. ephemera: theory & politics in organization, 17(4).
- Singh, N. M. (2015). Payments for ecosystem services and the gift paradigm: Sharing the burden and joy of environmental care. Ecological Economics, 117, 53-61.
- Kumar, K., Singh, N. M., & Kerr, J. M. (2015). Decentralisation and democratic forest reforms in India: Moving to a rights-based approach. Forest Policy and Economics, 51, 1-8.
- Singh, N. M. 2013. “The affective labor of growing forests and the becoming o fenvironmental subjects: Rethinking environmentality in Odisha, India.” Geoforum 47: 189– 198.
- Thomas Sikor, Johannes Stahl, Thomas Enters, Jesse C. Ribot, Neera Singh, William D. Sunderlin, Lini Wollenberg. 2010. REDD-plus, forest people’s rights and nested climate governance, Global Environmental Change, Volume 20, Issue 3, Governance, Complexity and Resilience, August 2010, Pages 423-425 (editorial)
- Singh, N. M. 2001. Women and Community Forests in Orissa: Rights and Management. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 8(2), 257-270.
Book Chapters
- Singh, Neera. 2012. “Democratic Spaces across Scales: Women’s Inclusion in Community Forestry in Orissa, India”. In Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America. Edited by María L. Cruz-Torres and Pamela McElwee. University of Arizona Press, pp. 50-70.
- Singh, N. M. 2011. Women’s action and democratic spaces across scales in India. In Forests and People: Property, Governance and Human Rights, eds. T. Sikor and J. Stahl, 191-202. London, New York: Earthscan.
- Singh, N. M. 2007. Transgressing Political Spaces and Claiming Citizenship: The Case of Women Kendu Leaf-Pluckers and the Community Forestry Federation, Ranpur, Orissa. In S. Krishna (Ed.), Women’s Livelihood Rights: Recasting Citizenship for Development (pp. 62- 81). New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London: Sage Publications.
- Singh, N. M. 2004. Women and Community Forests in Orissa: Rights and Management. InS. Krishna (Ed.), Livelihood & Gender: Equity in Community Resource Management (pp. 306-324). New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London: Sage Publications.
- Sarin, M., N. M. Singh, N. Sundar, & R. K. Bhogal. 2003. Devolution as a Threat to Democratic Decision-making in Forestry? Findings from three states in India. In D. Edmunds & E. Wollenberg (eds.) Local Forest Management: The Impacts of Devolution Policies, pp: 55-126. London, Sterling, VA: Earthscan.
- Edmunds, D., E. Wollenberg, A. P Contreras, L. Dachang, G. Kelkar, D. Nathan, M. Sarin, & N. M. Singh. 2003. Introduction. In D. Edmunds & E. Wollenberg (Eds.), Local Forest Management: The Impacts of Devolution Policies (pp. 1-19). London, Sterling, VA: Earthscan.
- Edmunds, D., E. Wollenberg, A. P Contreras,L. Dachang, G. Kelkar, D. Nathan, M. Sarin, & N. M. Singh. 2003. Conclusion. In D. Edmunds & E. Wollenberg (Eds.), Local Forest Management (pp. 166-181). London, Sterling, VA: Earthscan.
Books
- Singh, N, S. Kulkarni and N. P. Broome (2018). (ed.) Ecologies of Hope and Transformation: Post-Development Alternatives from India. Pune: Kalpavriksh and SOPPECOM, India.
- Singh, N. M., & Nayak, P. K. 2003. Adaptive Community Forest Management: A case ofDhani Panch Mouza Jungle Surakhya Samiti, Orissa. New Delhi: Winrock International India.
- Kant, S., Singh, N. M., & Singh, K. K. 1991. Community based Forest Management Systems: Case studies from Orissa. New Delhi, Bhopal: SIDA, ISO/Swedforest, Indian Institute of Forest Management
Special Issue
- Singh, N. M. (2018). Introduction: Affective Ecologies and Conservation. Conservation and Society, 16(1), 1-7.
- Co-edited special issue on Affective Ecologies and Conservation. Conservation and Society, 16(1).
Research Clusters:
Nature, Society and Environmental Change, Political Ecology