About
Dr. Amit Jain is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Chanakya National Law University, Patna. He holds a Doctorate from Teri School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi.
His research interests lie in the broader area of natural resource governance and relationship between ecology and society, with a specific focus on democratic forest governance.
During his doctoral research, he got an opportunity to spend six months in the Comparative Politics/Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU), Free University of Berlin, under the Erasmus Plus Exchange program. Before joining Chanakya National Law University, he worked as an Analyst at the Bharti Institute of Public Policy, Indian School of Business, Mohali. He holds an M.Phil in Development Practice, from the Ambedkar University Delhi.
He has a Master’s degree in Sociology, from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, and studied Zoology, Botany, and Chemistry in his graduation from the DAV College, Kanpur.
Courses Taught
- General Principles of Sociology (3 credits)
- Sociology of Law (3 credits)
- Sociology of Development (3 credits)
Teaching / Research Experience
Work Experience
- Assistant Professor of Sociology, Chanakya National Law University, August 2022 till Present.
- Teaching Assistant cum Analyst, Bharti Institute of Public Policy, Indian School of Business, December 2021 to July 2022.
Area of Interest
- Sociology of Forest Governance
- Environment, Development and Society
Publications
- Jain A. (2024). Vayam Rakshamah (We Protect): Are Rights Enough to Protect Forest? Economic and Political Weekly, 59(15), 2-9.
- Jain, A., & A. Mohanty. (2023). Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 and the Changing Contours of Tribal Identity in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, IASSI Quarterly: Contributions to Indian Social Science, 42(3), 633-641.
- Jain, A. (2022). Forest Tenure Rights and the Will to Develop in Eastern India, HNLU Journal of Law and Social Sciences, VIII, 367-380.
- Jain, A. (2022). Negotiating Environmentality: Implementation of Joint Forest Management in Eastern India, Regional Studies Regional Science, 9(1), 446-456.
- Jain, A., & Das, S. (2019). Crisis of the Forest Community in Postcolonial Indian Forest Policies and Laws. Environmental Sociology, 5(1), 23-32.
- Jain, A. (2018). Sustainability or (Sustain)ability? Environmentalism and Shades of Power in a Metropolis, in J. Mukherjee (ed.) Sustainable Urbanization in India. Singapore: Springer.
Conference
- “Unpacking Democratic Forest Governance: The Case of FRA in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand”, XII International Geographical Union India Conference, Govt. Post Graduate College, Panchkula, India, 22-24 February 2019.
- “Forest Community in Postcolonial Forest Policies and Laws”, 44th All India Sociological Conference, St. Philomena’s College (Autonomous), Mysuru, 27-29 December 2018.
- “Governing Commons: An Art of Negotiating Between Hegemonic and Non-Hegemonic”, XVI, Biennial Conference, International Association for the Study of Commons, Utrecht University, Netherlands, 10-14 July 2017.
- “Sustainability or (Sustain)ability? Environmentalism and Shades of Power in a Metropolis”, Sustainable Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata, 15-16 January 2015.
- “Rehabilitation and Regeneration! Squinting at Urban Political Ecology through the lenses of Social Economy”, International Conference on Environment, Technology, and Sustainable Development: Promises and Challenges in the 21st Century, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, March 2-4, 2014.
- “Imagining Space, Environment and Tracing Power in a Metropolitan City: Reflections on Displacement in a Neighborhood at the Bank of River Yamuna”, Development Meet, Department of Development Studies, Central University Bihar, Patna, 1-3 March 2013.
- “The Clamoring Silence: Environmentalism in a Metropolis”, 38th All India Sociological Conference, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, 27-29 December 2012.
- Indo-German Dialogue on Sustainable Water Resource Management, TERI School of Advanced Studies, 3 -4 October 2016.
- Roland Barthes: Today, Here, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, 10 – 11 December 2015.
- Rethinking Economic Development in India, Institute of New Economic Thinking, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, from 22-24 July 2015.
- Planet People or Profit? The ‘Perilous Passage and the Capitalist Transformation of the Natural World’, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, from 10-14 September 2012.
Invited Lectures
- ‘Individuals and Family in Indian Society’ at Bihar Institute of Correctional Administration, Hajipur, Vaishali, Bihar in 2022.
- ‘Importance of Caste, Community, and Class in Indian Society’ at Bihar Institute of Correctional Administration, Hajipur, Vaishali, Bihar in 2022.
- ‘Religions and the Importance of Religious Institutions in Indian Society’ at Bihar Institute of Correctional Administration, Hajipur, Vaishali, Bihar in 2022.
- ‘The Changes in Agrarian Structure and Impact on Rural Society’ at Bihar Institute of Correctional Administration, Hajipur, Vaishali, Bihar in 2022.
- ‘The Changing Socio-Economic Profile of Indian Society’ at Bihar Institute of Correctional Administration, Hajipur, Vaishali, Bihar in 2022.
Other Accomplishments
- Editor-in-Chief, CNLU Law Journal (UGC-Care Listed), December 2023 till Present.
- Reviewer for journal Environmental Conservation: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Environmental Science, Cambridge University Press.
- Reviewer for Student Conference on Conservation Science, 2023, organized by Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bengaluru.
- 2017, Agriterra Grant, for attending XVI Biennial Conference, International Association for the Study of Commons conference at Utrecht University, Netherlands.
- 2016, Erasmus Plus Scholarship by European Union, Visiting Doctoral Student, Comparative Politics and Environmental Policy Research Center, Free University of Berlin, February 2017 to July 2017.
- 2013, UGC- JRF (Sociology).
Contact / E-mail
amitjainho@yahoo.com , amitjain@cnlu.ac.in
