Research Supervision:
I supervise research students working on a wide range of topics relating to development issues, environmental and natural resources management in various regions of the world.
Doctoral Students
- Herlina Hartanto, Thesis title: Adaptability of Customary Forest Institutions in Kerinci, Central Sumatra, Indonesia.
- Paul Rogers, Thesis title: Agribusiness and Rural Development in Indonesia.
- Kiran Shinde, Thesis title: The environment of Pilgrimage in the Sacred Site of Vrindavan, India, (currently lecturer in Geography and Planning, University of New England, Armidale, NSW).
- Kwasi Agyeman, Thesis title: Land Use Change and Forest Transformations in the Ashanti Region, Ghana (currently Lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana).
- Akiko Yamane, Thesis: Rethinking Climate Change and Vulnerability in Sri Lanka, Monash University (currently Assistant Professor of geography at California State University at Fresno, USA).
- Mary Gilmartin, Thesis: Education and Change in South Africa and Northern Ireland, (External Advisor) University of Kentucky, USA (currently Lecturer in geography at National University of Ireland, Maynooth).
MA Research Students (Co-supervision with Dr. C. Kull)
- Michelle Aitken, Thesis title: Living with alien invasives: The political ecology of wattle in the eastern highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa (currently Project Officer of Invasive Species Unit, DSE Victoria).
- Anna Egan, Thesis Title: Doing right by country: Prickly trees, cattle, and camels in Northwest Queensland (began doctoral studies at University of Tasmania in 2009).
- Usman Shah, Thesis title: Institutional analysis of water resource management in the Kunduz Basin, Afghanistan.
- Alyse Weyman, Thesis title: Biodiversity conservation and invasive species: Regional responses to natural resource management in the Southern Gulf Catchment, Queensland.
Honours research students at Monash University
- Keith Harwood, Topic: Changing ideas about Melbourne’s urban form and transport
- Xinyi Oh, Topic: Food security, climate change and neo-colonialism.
- Rémy Kinna, Thesis: Conservation and Development Perspectives in the expansion of the Blyde River Canyon Reserve into Mariepskop State Forest, Mpumalanga, South Africa (co-supervised with C. Kull)
- Tracey Butcher, Thesis: The Role of Gender Focused NGOs in the former Homelands of South Africa.
- Petr Svoboda, Thesis:Gandhian Experiments with Alternative Development: The case of Gandhigram, Tamil Nadu, India
- Paul Carroll, Thesis: Sugarcane Farming on Communal Land: The Case of KaNgwane Former Homeland, Mpumalanga, South Africa
- Julien Gronbach, Thesis: Indigenous climate knowledge and rural agricultural practices in the South African lowveld. (co-supervised with N. Tapper)
- Rebecca Monson, Thesis: The big flood: a ‘natural’ disaster? Understanding the 1998 East Gippsland floods and vulnerability in the Upper Tambo Valley, Victoria (currently enrolled in doctoral studies at Australian National University)
TEACHING
- GES1050 The Global Challenge
- GES2660 Power and Poverty
- GES3330/GYM4330 Field Studies in Regional Sustainability
- GES3470/IDA4140 Urbanisation and Regional Development in the Indo Pacific Rims
- IDA5130 Environmental Revolutions
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Books
Rangan, H. 2000. Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko into Himalayan History, London: Verso Press. (also published by Oxford University Press, Delhi, India)
Friedmann, J. and Rangan, H. 1993. In Defense of Livelihood: Comparative Studies in Environmental Action, edited with John Friedmann, Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press.
Articles
Please Email me for copies (electronic or paper versions) of the articles you cannot get from your library.
Kull, C. and H. Rangan. Botanical geopolitics: Borders and feelings in the naming of plants. Under review with Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
Rangan, H., C. Kull, and L. Alexander. Under review. Forest plantations, water availability, and regional climate change: Controversies surrounding the presence of Acacia mearnsii in the upper Palnis Hills of southern India. Under review with Regional Environmental Change.
Aitken, M., H. Rangan, and C. Kull. Living with Alien invasives: The political ecology of wattle in the eastern highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa. Etudes Océan Indien, special issue on Plants and People, edited by G. Lefèvre, N. Rajaonarimanana, N. J. Gueunier, S. Fee. Forthcoming 2009/2010.
Rangan, H. and C. Kull. 2009. What makes ecology ‘political’? Rethinking ‘scale’ in political ecology. Progress in Human Geography. 33 (1): 28-45.
Kull, C. and H. Rangan. 2008. Acacia exchanges: Wattles, thorn trees, and the study of plant movements. Geoforum. 39: 1258-1272.
Rangan, H. 2008. ‘Development’ in Question, in K. Cox, M. Low, and J. Robinson eds. The SAGE Handbook of Political Geography, pp. 563-578. London: Sage
Kull, C., Tassin, J., and Rangan, H. 2007. Multifunctional, scrubby, and invasive forest? Wattles in the highlands of Madagascar’. Mountain Research and Development 27(3): 224-231.
Rangan, H. 2007. Brazil: 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. Pp. 148-156. UNDP: Asia Pacific Regional Centre, Colombo.
Rangan, H. 2004. From Chipko to Uttaranchal: The Environment of Protest and Development in the Indian Himalaya, in R. Peet and M. Watts eds. Liberation Ecologies, Second Edition. Pp. 371-393. London: Routledge.
Rangan, H. and Gilmartin, M. 2002.Gender, Traditional Authority, and the Politics of Rural Reform in South Africa. Development and Change. 33 (4): 633-658.
Rangan, H. 2001. The Muti Trade: South Africa’s Indigenous Medicines”, Diversity. 2 (6): 16-25.
Rangan, H. and Lane, M. 2001. Indigenous Peoples and Forest Management: Comparative Analysis of Institutional Approaches in Australia and India”, Society and Natural Resources, Vol.14 (2): 145-160.
Rangan, H. 2000. The Political Ecology of Sustainability and Forest Management: Reflections on Contemporary Theories and Material Practices”, in F.P. Gale and R.M. M’Gonigle eds. Nature, Production, Power: Towards and Ecological Political Economy. pp.121-140. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Rangan, H. 2000. State Economic Policies and Changing Regional Landscapes in the Uttarakhand Himalaya”, in A. Agarwal and K. Sivaramakrishnan eds. Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representation, and Rule in India. pp. 23-46. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press.
Rangan, H. 1999.Bitter-Sweet Liaisons in a Contentious Democracy: Radical Planning through State Agency in Postcolonial India”, Plurimondi, Vol. 1 (2): 47-66.
Rangan, H. 1997. Indian Environmentalism and the Question of the State: Problems and Prospects for Sustainable Development”, Environment and Planning (A), 29 (12): 2129-2143.
Rangan, H. 1997. Property vs. Control: The State and Forest Management in the Indian Himalaya”, Development and Change, 28 (1): 71-94.
Rangan, H. 1996. From Chipko to Uttaranchal: Development, Environment, and Social Protest in the Garhwal Himalayas”, in R. Peet and M.J. Watts eds. Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements, pp. 205-226. London: Routledge.
Rangan, H. 1995. Contested Boundaries: State Policies, Forest Classifications, and Deforestation in the Garhwal Himalayas”, Antipode, 27 (4): 343-362.
Rangan, H. 1993. Romancing the Environment: Popular Environmental Action in the Garhwal Himalayas”, in J. Friedmann and H. Rangan (eds.), In Defense of Livelihoods: Comparative Studies in Environmental Action, pp. 155-181. Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press.
Rangan, H. 1990. Hadija: Three Stories, Emergences: Journal for the Study of Composite Cultures, 1 (2): 46-48.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
1999 - 2001 Lecturer, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Australia 1997-99 Lecturer, School of Social Sciences and Planning, RMIT, Australia. 1995-97 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky 1994 Visiting Lecturer, Social Policy Programme, University of Durban-Westville, South Africa 1994 Postdoctoral Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of California- Berkeley 1992-93 Graduate Teaching Associate, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California-Los Angeles 1986-89 Transportation Planning Assistant, Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), Los Angeles. 1984-85 Architect-Planner, Vastushilpa Foundation, Ahmedabad, India. 1983-84 Planning Consultant, CEPT Study Cell, Ahmedabad, India. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Board of Directors, Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne, 2005- Associate Director, Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne, 2002 - present Book Series Editorial Board, Institute of Postcolonial Studies, 2001- present Editorial Board, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2001-2006
