Social and political ecology, Himalayan region, social stratification, gender, social and cultural capital, sociology of law and sociology of development.

Sociology of India II, Sociology of Law, Sociology of Development, Gender and Society, Social Stratification, Methodology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Theory, Sustainable Development, Nature, Society and Environment, Environmental Sociology.

Democractic Decision Making in Climate Change: Avoiding the Delusion of Participation.  International Conference on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies, Shimla Himachal Pradesh, 19-21 November 2009.

Environmentalism and the Crisis of Capitalist Development. Public Lecture at Political Science Department, Delhi University, South Campus, November 2009.

Political Ecology. Workshop on Social Science for natural scientists conducted by Ashoka Trust for research in Ecology and Environment, Bengaluru. 8-13^th June, 2009.

Forest Settlements in the Raj: Persistent diversity in forest property regimes in Himachal Pradesh, presented at International workshop on Nature in the Raj, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, August 2006.

Policy Implementation as an act of translation. Presented at International Conference On Translating Global Cultures, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, August 2006.

Economic and Cultural Transformation in Frontier Communities. Presented at seminar on Reforms and Democratization: Challenges of Governance in India and China, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi, August 2006.

Political Economy of Sacred Groves in the Western Himalaya. Presented at Resource Management in the Asia-Pacific Seminar, Australian National University, Australia, September 2005.

Devban Institutions in Kullu: Transformation, adaptation and potential.  Presented at International Association for the Study of Common Property Tenth Biennial Conference, Mexico, August 2004.

Institutionalizing Forestry Research in India: The Forest Research Institute, Dehradun.   Government of India’s Project of the History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture. 2007.

Political Economy of Sacred Groves in the Western Himalaya.  Australian National University, 2005.

Food Security and Vulnerability among Migrant Labor in Himachal Pradesh.  FAO, 2004-2005.

Border Trades and Border Peoples.  Institute of Chinese Studies, 2004-2005.

Forest Rights in Jharkhand: Laws, Policies and Practices. UNDP, 2003-2004.

Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, 2005

Ruth Glass Fellow, London School of Economics, 2004

MacArthur Summer Research Grant, 1999

Memberships

Indian Sociological Association

Indian Association for Women’s Studies

International Association for Ladakh Studies

Public Service / University Service / Consulting Activity

Advisory committee, ICSSR Journal of Abstracts and Reviews

Book reviews Editor, Conservation and Society

Lectures on Contemporary Environmental Politics in India. In Department of Environmental Studies, Delhi University.  3^rd and 10^th Nov., 2009.

Articles

Forest Law, Ideology and Practice. Page 113-131 in Legal Grounds. Natural Resources, Identity and Law in Jharkhand. Edited by Nandini Sundar. Oxford Unviersity Press, 2009.

“A Comparative View: Policy Implementation in Himachal Pradesh.” Chapter in Re-Interpreting nature and culture in Southeast Asia. Edited by M.R. Dove, P.E. Sajise and A. Doolittle. Yale University Press, 2007.

“Indo-Tibetan Border Trade in Himachal Pradesh,” China Report, 42: 41-55, 2006.

“In the Name of Law: Legality, Illegality and Practice in Jharkand Forests.” Economic and Political Weekly, XL(41): 4447-50, Oct. -14, 2005.

“Indo-Tibetan Border Trade in Himachal Pradesh,”  Occasional Studies Paper No. 5, Institute of Chinese Studies, July 2005.

“Wildlife Conservation. Deconstructing the ‘Public’,” Economic and Political Weekly, XL(44): 4477-50, Nov. 12, 2005.