Assoc Prof Haripriya Rangan - Researcher Profile

Biography

Dr Rangan is an an academic at GES whose research specialities include movements of plants across the Indian Ocean to Australia prior to British settlement, the political ecology of acacia exchanges around the Indian ocean and the social geographies of the marketplace trade.

Qualifications

LEVEL 2 CERTIFICATE IN LOTE: PORTUGUESE

Institution: Centre for Adult Education, Melbourne

Year awarded: 2007

URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Institution: University of California Los Angeles

Year awarded: 1996

URBAN PLANNING

Institution: University of California Los Angeles

Year awarded: 1987

URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING

Institution: Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India

Year awarded: 1983

ARCHITECTURE

Institution: Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India

Year awarded: 1981

Publications

Books

Rangan, H., 2000, Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History, Verso, London England www.versobooks.com.

Book Chapters

Kull, C., Rangan, H., 2012, Science, sentiment and territorial chauvinism in the acacia name change debate, in Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes, eds Simon G Haberle and Bruno David, ANU ePress, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 197-219.

Rangan, H., Kull, C., 2010, The Indian Ocean and the making of outback Australia: an ecocultural odyssey, in Indian Ocean Studies: Cultural Social, and Political Perspectives, eds Shanti Moorty and Ashraf Jamal, Routledge, New York, United States, pp. 45-72.

Rangan, H., 2008, 'Development' in Question, in The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography, eds Kevin R Cox Murray Low and Jennifer Robinson, Sage, London UK, pp. 563-578.

Rangan, H., 2007, The Favela BAirro Program: Scaling up Urban development, in Too good to be True? Local Poverty Reduction Initiatives for Potential replication in Asia Pacific region, eds T Palanivel N Fernando Omar Siddique, UNDP, Asia-Pacific Regional Centre, Colombo Sri Lanka, pp. 148-156.

Rangan, H., 2004, From Chipko to Uttaranchal: development, environment, and social protest in the Garhwal Himalayas, India, in Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements, eds Richard Peet and Michael Watts, Routledge, London UK, pp. 205-226.

Rangan, H., 2000, Political Ecology and Regional Sustainability: Reflections on Contemporary Debates and Material Practices, in Nature, Production, Power: Towards an Ecological Political Economy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham Glos UK, pp. 121-140.

Rangan, H., 2000, State Economic Policies and Changing Regional Landscapes in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, 1818-1947, in Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representation and Rule in India, Duke University Press, Box 90660 Durham NC 27708-0660, pp. 23-46.

Journal Articles

Rangan, H., Carney, J., Denham, T.P., 2012, Environmental history of botanical exchanges in the Indian Ocean world, Environment and History [P], vol 18, issue 3, The White Horse Press, United Kingdom, pp. 311-342.

Tassin, J., Rangan, H., Kull, C., 2012, Hybrid improved tree fallows: Harnessing invasive woody legumes for agroforestry, Agroforestry Systems [P], vol 84, issue 3, Springer, The Netherlands, pp. 417-428.

Carruthers, J., Robin, L., Hattingh, J., Kull, C., Rangan, H., van Wilgen, B., 2011, A native at home and abroad: the history, politics, ethics and aesthetics of acacias, Diversity And Distributions [P], vol 17, issue 5, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., UK, pp. 810-821.

Kull, C., Shackleton, C., Cunningham, P., Ducatillon, C., Dufour-Dror, J., Esler, K., Friday, J., Gouveia, A., Griffin, A., Marchante, E., Midgley, S., Pauchard, A., Rangan, H., Richardson, D., Rinaudo, T., Tassin, J., Urgenson, L., von Maltitz, G., Zenni, R., Zylstra, M., 2011, Adoption, use and perception of Australian acacias around the world, Diversity And Distributions [P], vol 17, issue 5, Wiley-Blackwell, UK, pp. 822-836.

Rangan, H., Kull, C.A., Alexander, L.V., 2010, Forest plantations, water availability, and regional climate change: Controversies surrounding Acacia mearnsii plantations in the upper Palnis Hills, southern India, Regional Environmental Change [P], vol 10, Springer, Germany, pp. 103-117.

Aitken, M., Rangan, H., Kull, C.A., 2009, Living with alien invasives: The political ecology of wattle in the eastern highveld Mpumalanga, South Africa, Etudes Ocean Indien [P], vol 42-43, issue 42-43, Etudes Ocean Indien, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, pp. 115-141.

Rangan, H., Kull, C.A., 2009, What makes ecology 'political'?: Rethinking 'scale' in political ecology, Progress in Human Geography, vol 33, Sage, United Kingdom, pp. 28-45.

Kull, C.A., Rangan, H., 2008, Acacia exchanges: Wattles, thorn trees, and the study of plant movements, Geoforum; journal of physical, human, and regional geosciences [P], vol 39, Elsevier/ Pergamon, UK, pp. 1258-1272.

Kull, C.A., Tassin, J., Rangan, H., 2007, Multifunctional, scrubby, and invasive forests? Wattles in the highlands of Madagascar, Mountain Research and Development, vol 27, issue 3, International Mountain Society and United Nations University, Berne Switzerland, pp. 224-231.

Rangan, H., Gilmartin, M., 2002, Gender, traditional authority, and the politics of rural reform in South Africa, Development and Change, vol 33, issue 4, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford UK, pp. 633-658.

Rangan, H., Lane, M.B., 2001, Indigenous peoples and forest management: comparative analysis of institutional approaches in Australia and India, Society & Natural Resources, vol 14, Taylor & Francis, Inc., Philadelphia USA, pp. 145-160.

Rangan, H., 2001, The Multi Trade: South Africa's indigenous medicines, Diversity, vol 2, issue 6, Australian Complementary Health Association, Melbourne Victoria Australia, pp. 16-25.

Rangan, H., 1999, Bitter-Sweet Liaisons in a Contentious Democracy: Radical Planning through State Agency in Postcolonial India, Plurimondi: An International Forum for Research and Debate on Human Settlements, vol 1 issue 2, Edizioni Dedalo Srl, Bari Italy, pp. 47-66.

Conference Proceedings

Hartanto, H., Rangan, H., Thorburn, C.C., Kull, C.A., 2008, Strategic Engagement and Dynamic Adaptation: Customary Forest Management in Kerinci Central Sumatra Indonesia, 12th Biennial Conference of the International Assoication for the Study of Commons/Digital Library of the Commons, 14-18 July 2008, Digital Library of the Commons/University of Indiana, http//dic.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00003827/(website hosted at Champagne-Urbana Indiana), pp. 1-30.

Other

Barnett, J., Christoff, P., Rangan, H., Sutherland, E., 2009, An Inconvenient Truth Review Symposium, (Journal of Monograph): Geographic Research, vol 47, issue 2, Wiley Blackwell, Richmond Vic Australia, pp. 204-211.

Rangan, H., 2008, Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies in India, (Journal or Monograph): Economic Geography, vol 84, issue 2, Clark University, Worcester Massachusetts USA, pp. 249-251.

Rangan, H., 2005, Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers Self-made Men and Globalization in Provincial India, Economic Geography, vol minorjourn, Clark University, Worcester MA USA, pp. 325-328.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Alien vegetation and indigenous perspectives: considering a pluralistic approach to the management of non-native plant species.

Supervisors:

Rangan, H (Main), Bradley, J (Associate), Kull, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Foreign direct investment in biofuels production: a win-win scenario?.

Supervisors:

Rangan, H (Main), Lane, R (Associate), Thorburn, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Socio-Ecological Interactions Associated with LandCover Changes in Northern Savannah Region of Ghana.

Supervisors:

Rangan, H (Main), Zhu, X (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Political Ecology of Valuing Forest Ecosystem Services: A comparative study of community actions in the Tinau watershed, Western Nepal and Wombat Forest Catchment, Victoria, Australia.

Supervisors:

Rangan, H (Main), Kull, C (Associate), Stubbs, W (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Agyeman, K.

Program of Study:

Land use change and forest transformations in the Ashanti region, Ghana. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Rangan, H (Main).

Student:

Aitken, M.

Program of Study:

Living with alien invasives - The political ecology of wattle in the eastern highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Masters) 2008.

Supervisors:

Kull, C (Joint-Co), Rangan, H (Joint).

Student:

Egan, A.

Program of Study:

Doing Right by Country: Prickly Trees, Cattle and Camels in Northwest Queensland. (Masters) 2008.

Supervisors:

Kull, C (Joint-Co), Rangan, H (Joint).

Student:

Hartanto, H.

Program of Study:

Adaptability of customary forest institutions in Kerinci, Central Sumatra, Indonesia. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Rangan, H (Main), Kull, C (Associate), Thorburn, C (Associate).

Student:

Shah, U.

Program of Study:

Bringing Order to the Jangal: State Building, Social Change,International Intervention in Afghanistan's Kunduz River Basin. (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Rangan, H (Main), Kull, C (Associate), Thorburn, C (Associate).

Student:

Shinde, K.

Program of Study:

The environment of pilgrimage on the sacred site of Vrindavan, India. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Rangan, H (Main), Costello, L (Associate), Kull, C (Associate).

Student:

Yamane, A.

Program of Study:

Rethinking climate change and vulnerability in Sri Lanka. (PHD) 2006.

Supervisors:

Rangan, H (Main), Cocklin, C (Associate).