Research

Published Work:

Bedi, H.P. 2022. A Just Energy Transition in India? In Democratizing Energy. M. Nadesan, M.J. Pasqualetti, and J. Keahey, eds. Elsevier.

Bedi, H. P. 2021. Solar power for some? Energy transition injustices in Kerala, India. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.

Da Silva, S. D., Nielsen, K. B., & Bedi, H. P. 2020. Land use planning, dispossession and contestation in Goa, India. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1-26

Bedi, H. P. 2019. “Lead the district into the light”: Solar energy infrastructure injustices in Kerala, India. Global Transitions, 1, 181-189

Bedi, H.P. and J. Levitt-Cea. 2019. Women and Development-forced Evictions: Realities, Responses and Solidarity. Development in Practice

Bedi, H. P. 2018. ‘Our Energy, Our Rights’: National Extraction Legacies and Contested Energy Justice Futures in Bangladesh. Energy Research Social Science, 41

Oskarsson, P. and H.P. Bedi. 2018. Extracting Environmental Justice: Countering Technical Renditions of Pollution in India’s Coal Industry. The Extractive Industries and Society

Nielsen, K. B., & Bedi, H.P. 2017. The Regional Identity Politics of India’s New Land Wars: Land, Food, and Popular Mobilization in Goa and West Bengal. Environment and Planning A, 49 (10), 2324-2341

Bedi, H.P.  2016. Contested Land, Reimagined Sovereignties and Special Economic Zones in India. In Industrializing Rural India: Land, Policy and Resistance. Nielsen, K. B. and P. Oskarsson, eds. Routledge

Bedi, H.P. 2015. Right to Food, Right to Mine? Competing Human Rights Claims in Bangladesh. Geoforum 59: 248-257

Thieme, T., H.P. Bedi, and B. Vira. 2015. Geographies of Corporate Practice in Development: Contested Capitalism and Encounters. Geoforum 59: 215-218

Bedi, H. P. 2015. Judicial Justice for Special Economic Zone Land Resistance. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 45(4), 596-617

Bedi, H. P., & L. Tillin. 2015. Inter-state Competition, Land Conflicts and Resistance in India. Oxford Development Studies, 43(2), 194-211

Bedi, H.P. 2013. Environmental Mis-assessment, Development and Mining in Orissa, India. Development and Change 44(1): 101-123 

Bedi, H.P. 2013. Special Economic Zones: National Land Challenges, Localized Protest. Contemporary South Asia 21(1): 38-51

Co-editor, Geoforum special theme issue: Corporations and Development: Contested Capitalism and Encounters (2015)

Research Funding:

Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Grant

Food, Poverty, and Place. Dickinson College Mellon Foundation Grant, Civic Learning/Engagement Curricular Development Project

Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds Grant (with Penn State Rural Sociologist, Kathy Brasier and citizen science non-profit, ALLARM)

The Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust Scholar, University of Cambridge

UK-India Education Research Initiative, Visiting Fellowship. King’s College London, Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research, Mumbai and University of California, Berkeley