Dr. Pradeep Kumar Parida
About
Research Area
Dr. Pradeep Kumar Parida, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Pondicherry University,
Puducherry. I have been in the field of academics for the last 20 years and more. I have a keen interest in Sociology of Development and Sociology of Disasters, importantly in the social dimensions of environmental risks and hazards, and published extensively on the topicincluding, disaster context and causation, human dimensions of environmental hazards,community response to disaster, the political economy of disaster and, disaster and
development etc. My book ‘Women and Natural Disaster: the Gendered Perspective’ is quite
popular in the field of Disaster and Development research. I have successfully guided more thana dozen MPhil and Ph.D. scholars. I have also completed several projects.
Notable & Recent Publications
Parida, P.K. “The Social Construction of Gendered Vulnerability to Tsunami Disaster: The Caseof Coastal Sri Lanka”, Journal of Social and Economic Development, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 200-222, (2015), Springer Publications, 1.1- Impact factor.
Parida, P.K . “Natural Disaster and Women’s Mental Health”, Social Change, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp.256-275, (2015), Sage Publications.
"Parida, P.K. ‘We are Living with Daily Disasters’: A Study of Mental Health Consequences of Cyclone ‘Thane’, Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 77-94, (2014), Sage Publications."
"Parida, P.K. “Understanding Evacuation Behaviour in a Disaster Society: The Case of Coastal Orissa”, Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 179 -198, (2010), Sage Publications."
Parida. P.K. “Super Cyclone Affected Coastal Orissa: A Social Vulnerability Approach”, Review of Development and Change, Vol. XIII, No. 2, pp. 159 – 180, (2008), Sage Publications.
