International Research on Cultures, Environments and Societies in South Asia

French Institute of Pondicherry

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Local Food Systems Monthly Event - August 24- 3pm

Events

Events

Hospitals in South Asia: Health Policies, Care Practices - Book presentation - 4th October 2022

Events

[MoSS#15] August 25, 11 am - Avatars of participation. Forms and ambiguities of participatory democracy in urban India - Dr Stéphanie Tawa Lama

Events

PLMPI Seminar 24.08.2022: Dr Stephan Seifert - Classification and characterization of complex data with chemometric approaches

Events

Local Food Systems Monthly Event - August 24- 3pm

IFP SPOTLIGHT

Research



Indology

Ecology

Social Sciences

Geomatics

Transversal Topics


Forest

What is the status of forests? What are the challenges and strategies of developmental activities in protecting forests with reference to global change scenario?

Labour

How do we understand changes in labouring lives with respect to transformations in political economy of finance and credit, ecological landscapes, work and knowledge?

Coast

Understanding coastal ecosystems as a confluence of physical, political, social and ecological changes towards establishing an observatory of the Coromandel Coast

Water

Access to water: production, consumption, policies, society and representations. Water landscapes and culture: from art to tourism. Aquatic environments, between botany and human settlements

Heritage

From Tamil-French Pondicherry to the rich national history of India, between ancient times and globalization: Archeological and historical research, tangible and intangible heritage policies, memory and tourism