معرفی
Dr. Subir Sinha is Reader in the Theory and Politics of Development at SOAS University of London, serving as Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute. He earned his BA from the University of Delhi and MA/PhD from Northwestern University.
His research examines institutional change in development contexts, with current projects on decentralized governance in India, agrarian movements, and the global fishworkers' movement. He investigates how social movements reshape state-society relations in postcolonial contexts.
Core research areas:
- Transnational social movements
- South Asian political economy
- Decolonial development alternatives
- Environmental justice struggles
Sinha supervises doctoral projects on Dalit land rights, Korean development aid, and migrant labor identities. His publications analyze authoritarian populism in India and Marxist approaches to digital labor during crises.
