Web Talk
Department of Sociology (UG)
Topic: Environmental Sociology
Guest Speaker: Prof. Chandan Kumar Sharma (Tezpur University)
Date: 25th April’22
Time: 10:30 – 11:30 AM
Meet Link: https://bit.ly/TetsoES
Chairperson: Dr Loina Shohe, Asst. Professor, Deptt.In-charge, Sociology
Rapporteur: Jit Hazarika, Asst. Professor, Sociology
Dear Students,
We put emphasis on broadening your knowledge, introducing you to explore subjects and interests that are not limited by your syllabus. Our attempts are to orient you with sociological concerns so that by graduation you can be well acquainted with the subject. As ‘educated individuals’, we also aspire that all of you find your own sense of self-fulfilment; at the same time, we endeavour to inculcate in you a sense of social responsibility, an awareness of the social problems and concern for the community. Towards this end, we are glad to inform you about the Web Talk on Environmental Sociology to be held on 25th April 2022 from 10:30- 11:30 am.
Human society and the environment are entities which influence and shape the existence of each other. In modern society, climate change and ecological crises have become major areas of global concern. Human society is now threatened of its very existence by their impact, on the extreme; while communities, cultures, and livelihoods have been experiencing adverse effects of environmental change. It has thus become pertinent more than ever, to create awareness and to understand the intricate relation and delicate balance between environment and society at all levels.
It is to be noted that while environmental sociology as a subfield of sociology emerged in the late 1970s, the founding fathers of sociology such as Marx, Weber and Durkheim were also concerned with the environment-human interface. However, the domain has gone through its ups and downs before assuming the prominence in contemporary times.
We have invited, an imminent sociologist, Prof. Chandan Kumar Sharma, who is an expert in this area too, likewise, enlighten us on this vital subject.
Order of Programme
Introduction: Chairperson
Welcome Address: Dr Hewasa L.Khing, Principal, Tetso College
Talk on Environmental Sociology: Prof. Chandan Kumar Sharma, Tezpur University
Q&A Session
Vote of Thanks: Yongkongnukla Ozukum, Asst.Professor, Sociology
*Attendance is compulsory for Sociology students
Brief Bio-Data of the Guest Speaker:
Chandan Kumar Sharma is a Professor of Sociology at Tezpur University, Assam. He did his B.A. from Cotton College, Guwahati and M.A., M.Phil. and PhD from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi. His areas of research interest include development, urbanization, environment, migration, identity politics, agrarian change, and society and culture of northeast India. He has published widely on these issues in both academic as well as popular fora.
In 2008, Professor Sharma has been a Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow to the School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at several Indian universities including the Centre for Advanced Study in Sociology, Delhi School of Economics (2014), and the Centre for Advanced Study in the School of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2015). Professor Sharma is also the founder and Editor of Explorations, the e-journal of the Indian Sociological Society. He has served in important bodies of the Government, ICSSR, UGC and that of various universities and non-governmental organisations. He is known for his engagements in institution building for almost a quarter-century.
Professor Sharma is a bilingual author. He is a regular commentator on various social and political issues pertaining to Assam and the north-eastern region of India. Besides writing more than two hundred articles in English and Assamese, he has published four books which include Culture Studies: Themes and Perspectives (2003) and Fixed Borders, Fluid Boundaries: Identity Resources and Mobility in Northeast India (Routledge, 2020) (co-edited with Reshmi Banerjee). Currently, he is editing another book titled Coronasphere: Narratives on Covid 19 from India and its Neighbours with Reshmi Banerjee to be published by Routledge on the Impact of the COVID19 Pandemic in South Asia.