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Dr. Dilip Gogoi

Dr. Dilip Gogoi

Associate Professor

Ph.D. : Gauhati University, (MA, JNU & M.Phil., JNU)

Research Interests:

International Relations, Borderland Studies and Transboundary Environmental Governance with a special focus on Northeast India sub-region and Neighbourhood of South and Southeast Asian nations.
Date of Joining : Jan 7, 2004

Phone: 9535146865
Email: dilip.gogoi@cottonuniversity.ac.in

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About

 Dilip Gogoi is an Associate Professor of Political Science in Cotton University, Guwahati, India. An alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi and Lok Sabha Research Fellow (2018-2020), the Parliament of India, he has authored Making of India’s Northeast: Geopolitics of Borderland and Transnational Interactions, London: Routledge,2020 and edited Unheeded Hinterland: Identity and Sovereignty in Northeast India, London: Routledge,2016. He specialises in International Relations with a special focus on Northeast India sub-region with its immediate neighbourhood, besides having keen research interest on ethnonationalism and borderland studies in South Asian context. His current research interests include transboundary environmental governance and justice from the perspective of international relations with an emphasis on Northeast India and greater eastern Himalayan region.

Teaching

Postgraduate level

a. Theoretical Aspects of International Politics

b. Contemporary International Relations

c. Human Rights: Theory and Practice

d. Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution.

e. India and the World (Optional)

Undergraduate Level

        a. Understanding International Relations

        b. Globalization and Transnational Actors in Global Politics

        c. Human Rights and Practices in India

        d. Ethno-nationalism and Political Processes in Northeast India

         e. India Foreign Policy in a Globalizing World

        Ph D :       Frontiers in Social Sciences (optional Papers)

Experience

Employed in a permanent position as Assistant Professor of Political Science in the year 2004 at erstwhile Cotton College, now Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam, India.

Currently serving as Associate Professor of Political Science  in the same institution since 2016.

Teaching Experience:

Completed 20 years of full-time teaching at graduate and post graduate levels

Research Projects

  • Completed Minor Research  Project: Indo-Myanmar Border Management : Cross -cultural Linkages and Challenges, sponsored by UGC, New Delhi (2008-09)
  • Completed  Research  Project titled: Addressing HIV/AIDS in the Assam Tea Industry through Corporate Social Responsibility Schemes, 2006-07  Sponsored by Partners in Change/ Oxfam, New Delhi.

Research paper publications

2024

1. Dilip Gogoi, Rise and Fall of Ethnonationalist Armed Movement in Assam: A Diachronic Narrative of the Assamese Nationality and its Systemic Insecurity, Social Change and Development , vol. XXI, 44-66, I, 2024

2023

1. Pahi Saikia, Anup Kumar, Holli A. Semetko & Dilip Gogoi, Contesting in the policy sphere: stakeholders and policy formulation on the lower Subansiri dam in the Northeast, India Review, vol. 22, 5, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2023.2261316

2. Dilip Gogoi & Biplob Gogoi, Endangering the Endangered: The Poaching and Conservation Conundrum Facing the Greater Indian One -Horned Rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park, Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, vol. 25, 59-175, 2, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1080/13880292.2022.2124609

3. Kasmita Bora & Dilip Gogoi, Political Ecology and Coal Extraction in Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya: Present Regime and Environmental Consequences, GUINEIS Journal, Special Issue: Environmental Vulnerabilities , vol. XI, 2023

2021

1. Dilip Gogoi & Kasmita Bora Vol. 28 No. 1, , Ecological Disaster in India’s Northeast Resource Frontier: Baghjan Natural Gas Well Explosion, Environmental Tragedy and People’s Protest in Eastern Assam, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 28, 82–102, 1, 2021

Research paper publications till 2021

Pahi Saikia, Anup Kumar, Holli A. Semetko & Dilip Gogoi, “Contesting in the policy sphere: stakeholders and policy formulation on the lower Subansiri dam in the Northeast”, India Review, Volume 22, 2023 - Issue 5,   531-563. (Scopus) https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2023.2261316

Dilip Gogoi , Biplob Gogoi  " Endangering the Endangered: The Poaching and Conservation Conundrum Facing the Greater Indian One -Horned Rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park, Assam,India” ,  Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, Vol.25,Issue 2, 2022,pp.159-175 (Scopus), https://doi.org/10.1080/13880292.2022.2124609

Dilip Gogoi, “Rise and Fall of Ethnonationalist Armed Movement in Assam: A Diachronic Narrative of the Assamese Nationality and its Systemic Insecurity” , Social Change and Development , Vol. XXI No. 1, 44-66, 2024(UGCCARE )

https://www.socialchangeanddevelopment.in/downloads/january2024/paper-3.pdf

Kasmita Bora , Dilip Gogoi “Political Ecology and Coal Extraction in Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya: Present Regime and Environmental Consequences”, GUINEIS Journal (2023), Special Issue: Environmental Vulnerabilities , Valume XI, 2023 (UGC CARE), https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nJOI3AR3axNbWTuqmyLXBsICVPiiZ6DH/view

Dilip Gogoi, Kasmita Bora, “Ecological Disaster in India’s Northeast Resource Frontier: Baghjan Natural Gas Well Explosion, Environmental Tragedy and People’s Protest in Eastern Assam”, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 28 No. 1, 82–102,2021. (published in 2023-09-21) (UGC CARE ), http://14.139.58.200/ojs/index.php/shss/article/view/1545

Rubul Patgiri & Dilip Gogoi,  “Act East through India’s Northeast: Limits of Neoliberal Strategies towards Developing an Underdeveloped Region”, South Asian Survey, 29(1) 23–41, 2022, (Scopus/old list of Journal) https://doi.org/10.1177/09715231211069954

Neelotpal  Deka, Dilip Gogoi, “The Treaty of Yandaboo and the Question of Self -Determination in Assam from the perspective of International Legal Regimes”, Journal of Polity and Society, Vol. 13 No. 2 (2021), 95-107. https://journalspoliticalscience.com/index.php/i/article/view/42/38 (Published: 2022-09-22) (UGC CARE )

Rengupta M and Dilip Gogoi, “Tragedy of Jumbos in Bamuni Hill, Assam: Interrogating Human

Interventions in the Wild Life Habitats of India’s Northeastern Borderland”, Indian Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 15 No. 1, 100-107, 2022 (UGC CARE).

Biplob Gogoi and Dilip Gogoi " Conservation of Forest and Community rights: A study of people's Livelihood Rights in the periphery of the Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India"  Ecology, Environment and Conservation, Volume 28,Issue 1, 2022, pp. 172-178, ISSN:0971-765x, (UGC CARE/Web of Science0 http://doi.org/10.53550/EEC.2022.v28i01.022

Dilip Gogoi and Ksenia Glebova, “Corporate Social Responsibility and Prevention of HIV & AIDS in the Tea Gardens of Assam, India”, Explorations: E-journal of the Indian Sociological Society, vol.5 (2), 80-104., 2021 (UGC CARE) file:///C:/Users/Dilip/Downloads/Vol.%205%20(2),%20October%202021.pdf

Dilip Gogoi , “Political Ecology of Big Dams in India’s North-East Frontier: Emerging Critical Issues and Environmental Concerns” Refugee Watch Online (A Co-Publication of Refugee Watch), June 30,2011.(ISSN 2347-405X) https://refugeewatchonline.blogspot.com/2011/07/political-ecology-of-big-dams-in-indias.html

Dilip Gogoi, “Sino-India Friendship: Experiencing Realism with Optimism”, South Asia Politics, April 2007.

Dilip Gogoi, “National Security and India’s Pursuit of Nuclear Deterrence Policy: A Realist Perspective”, Journal of Contemporary Concerns, Vol.5, 2006. (ISSN  0972-7922)

Dilip Gogoi, “Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention in an Anarchical World: A Regime Analysis”, Journal of Politics, Vol. XII, 2005, (ISSN 2277-5617) file:///C:/Users/Dilip/AppData/Local/Temp/aa5a0c95-44b8-4721-9c19-d7e1d2f9b0a4_Journal%20Volume%2012.zip.0a4/25112022033932.pdf

Dilip Gogoi, “Ethnicity, Anarchy and the State: A Reflection from Karbi Anglong, Assam”, South Asia Politics, Vol. 12, (December) 2005.

Conference Proceedings till 2021

  • Dilip Gogoi ‘ Ontology of the Commons: Ecology, Enlivenment and ethnic Episteme in India’s Northeast ‘(Presented with Dr Sanghamitra Sadhu as co-presenter) in XXIV International Conference 2021 -Environmental Humanities : Living in Critical Zone from 24th to 26 February 2022 at International Centre ,Goa
  • Dilip Gogoi “Sovereign State System in the era of Globalisation: an Appraisal” in 17th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences, Venice, Italy, April 13-14,2015. (published in Conference proceeding International Science Index , eISSN: 13076892,pp 704- 710.)
  • Dilip Gogoi “ State, People and Ecology of Mega Dam Construction In Northeast Frontier: A perspective on the Lower Subansiri Hydel Project” in International Geographical Union(IGU) Commission Seminar Land Use , Biodiversity and Climate Change ,organised by Department of Geography, Cotton College, Guwahati from 11th to 13th December,2010. (published in Conference proceeding).                         
  • Dilip Gogoi “Environmental Insecurity, Migration and Conflict: A study of Bangladeshi Migration into Assam, India”, at International Workshop on MIGRATION &DIVERSITY IN ASIAN CONTEXTS,25-26 Sept.2008.Asia Research Institute & National University of Singapore. (published in Conference proceeding ).
  • Dilip Gogoi “South east Asia via Northeast India: An Indian Foreign Policy Perspective”, at 20th  European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies,8- 11 July,2008,Manchester University, UK. (published in Conference proceeding ).                                                                                                             Dilip Gogoi “East through Northeast: India and Southeast Asia in the New Asia”, presented at 2nd  Asia  Graduate Forum on 26-27 July 2007 in Asia Research Institute, NUS, Singapore. (published in Conference proceeding ).

Research Papers presented at the  National Level Conferences :

  • Dilip Gogoi , “Insurgents’ Violence and Human Rights: Some Reflections on Violence in Karbi Anglong, Assam”, UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Human Rights and Values in Education , organised by Department of Cultural Studies and English and Foreign Languages, Tezpur University, Assam, on 19 and 20 October, 2006.
  • Dilip Gogoi, “The Quest for Swadhin Asom: Explaining Insurgency and Role of the State in Assam” , ICSSR sponsored national seminar on Role of Bangladesh in Insurgency in Northeast India , organized by SPANDAN ,New Delhi  at JNU, New Delhi, on 29-30,2003.

Participation in International Study Sessions/Workshops:

. Participated 2 nd Singapore Graduate Forum, organised by Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore(NUS),July 2007.

· Participated in Special Study Session on Human Rights from 4 th to 29 th July 2005, Orgainsed by International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France , in collaboration with the UNO and ICRC. etc.

· Participated special study session on Defence, Technology and Cooperative Security in South Asia, involving China, Pakistan and India, organized by RCSS, Colombo from 2nd sept. to 12 sept.2006, collaboration with Ford Foundation.

· Participated in 4 Annual Winter Course on “Forced Migration”, organized by CRG, Kolkata, from 15 Sept. to 15 Dec.2006 ,collaboration with UNHCR, Government of Finland and Brookings Institution.

·Participated 10th South Asian Teaching Session on International Humanitarian Law, organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC and NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad from 11 – 18 April , 2007

· Winter School on Life and Thought of Gandhi Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, 1-15 December,2011.

· Participated Workshop on Framework of Conflict Management , January 07 to January 11, 2008, organized by IDSA , New Delhi and PRIO ,Oslo at IDSA, New Delhi.

· Participated in XXV International Conference 2022 ‘A Requiem for Theory! Eschatological Ruminations’, 20 to 22 December 2022 at Guwahati, Assam

Book publication relating subject/research concerned

  • Dilip Gogoi (single authored) Making of India’s Northeast : Geopolitics of Borderland and Transnational Interactions. London: Routledge,2021
  • Dilip Gogoi (ed.) Unheeded Hinterland: Sovereignty and Identity Debates in Northeast India. London: Routledge, 2016 (ISBN- 978-1138100091)
  • Nani G Mahanta and Dilip Gogoi (ed.) , Shifting Terrain: Conflict Dynamics in Northeast India , Guwahati/ Delhi: DVS Publisher,2012.(ISBN- 978-81-86307-57-1)
  • Arupjyoti Choudhury and Dilip Gogoi (ed.) ,Marginal Frontier : Select Essays on Northeast India ,Guwahati : Bhabani Books,2012.(ISBN-978-93-81139-87-5)
  • Dilip Gogoi (ed.) Beyond Borders: Look east Policy and the Northeast India, Gauhati/Delhi: DVS Publishers (India), 2010. (ISBN 978-81-86307-36-6)
  • Dilip Gogoi (ed.) Contemporary Concerns: Essays by Young Minds & Cotton Conclave ,Guwahati: Anwesha,2007,(ISBN 81-89003-26-7)

Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented)

  • Dilip Gogoi, “Sovereignty and national identity: the troubled trajectory  in Northeast India”, in Dilip Gogoi (ed.) Unheeded Hinterland: Sovereignty and Identity Debates in Northeast India. London, New York, New Delhi: Routledge, 2016 (chapter -1, ISBN- 978-1138100091).
  • Dilip Gogoi (with Uddipan Dutta), “ Between the State and Insurgents: Violation of Human Rights in Assam” in Dilip Gogoi (ed.) Unheeded Hinterland: Sovereignty and Identity Debates in Northeast India. London, New York, New Delhi: Routledge, 2016 (Chapter-10, ISBN- 978-1138100091)
  • Dilip Gogoi, “Postscripts: ending the impasse and reintegrating Northeast India”  in Dilip Gogoi (ed.) Unheeded Hinterland: Sovereignty and Identity Debates in Northeast India. London, New York, New Delhi: Routledge, 2016 (chapter-13, ISBN- 978-1138100091)
  • Dilip Gogoi, “Northeast in Indo-Myanmar Geo-Strategic Environment” in Alaka Sarmah and Shubhrajeet Konwer ( ed.) Frontier States:  Essays on Democracy, Society  and Security in Northeast India, Guwahati: DVS Publishers, 2015 (Chapter-20,pp 320-341, ISBN-13: 978-8186307946 )
  • Dilip Gogoi, “Environmental Insecurity, Population Displacement, and Native –Migrants Conflict: A perspective from Assam” in Nani G Mahanta and Dilip Gogoi (ed.) Shifting Terrain: Conflict Dynamics in Northeast India, Guwahati / Delhi: DVS Publisher,2012, pp.141-171 (chapter -6, ISBN- 978-81-86307-57-1 ).
  • Dilip Gogoi,( with Arupjyoti Choudhuri) “Marginal Frontier : A Prologue”( Introduction) in  ArupJyoti Choudhury and Dilip Gogoi(ed.) ,Marginal Frontier : Select Essays on Northeast India ,Guwahati : Bhabani Books,2012,.(ISBN-978-93-81139-87-5)
  • Dilip Gogoi, “Beyond Borders : Lookeast Policy and Northeast India” (Introduction) in  Dilip Gogoi (ed.) Beyond Borders: Look east Policy and the Northeast India, Gauhati/Delhi: DVS Publishers,  2010, pp 34 -62,( ISBN 978-81-86307-36-6) 
  • Dilip Gogoi, “East Trough Northeast: India and Southeast Asia in New Asia” in  Dilip Gogoi (ed.) Beyond Borders: Look east Policy and the Northeast India, Gauhati/Delhi: DVS Publishers,  2010, pp 34 -62  (chapter 3, ISBN 978-81-86307-36-6 )
  • Dilip Gogoi, “Resurrection of a Sunset Dream: ULFA and the role of State”, in Jaideep Saikia ed., Frontier in  Flames: Northeast India in Turmoil,Penguin,2007.(Chapter-7,pp 116-133,ISBN-13:978-0-67008-117-2).
  • Dilip Gogoi, “The Quest for Swadhin Asom: Explaining Insurgency and Role of the State in Assam”, in Dipankar Sengupta & Sudhir Kr. Singh (ed.) Insurgency in North East India, New Delhi: Authors press, 2004.(chapter-4,pp37-57,ISBN81-7273-167-1)
  • Contributed to the International Organisation section, first Assamese Encyclopaedia, Viswakos, Vol. IX, Samaj Aru Sanskriti (Society and Culture) edited by Dr. M. Taher, Assam Sahitya Sabha, 13 February, 2006.

Research Scholars

Sl. No Name Research Topic Roll No
1 Arunava Gupta Political Ecology, Governance and Biodiversity Across Borders.
2 Kasmita Bora Political Ecology, Politics of Natural Resource Extraction.
3 Meghashree Buragohain Border, Security and Frontier Policy Analysis PSC2291001
4 Anwesha Hazarika Child Rights, Human Rights, Gender PSC2091005
5 Kuel Bhadra Political Ecology, Environmental Governance, and Sustainable Development PSC2291002
6 Manashi Parashar International Relations, Security Studies PSC2091006
7 Biplob Gogoi (Awarded) Environment and conservation PSC1891003

Awards

  • Visiting Fellowship: International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway, 2009
  • Lok Sabha Research Fellowship 2018-19, Parliament of India, New Delhi
  • Grant for Participating 2nd Singapore Graduate Forum, July 2007, Asia Research

              Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS).

  • Scholarship for 36th Study Session on Human Rights from 4th to 29th July 2005, funded by

              International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France.

  • Full Sponsorship for Participation in the special study session on Defence, Technology and  Cooperative Security in South Asia,  2nd Sept. to 12 Sept.2006, funded by RCSS, Colombo & Ford Foundation.
  • National Merit Scholarship 1993-96 for Undergraduate Study , Govt. of India
  • Merit cum means Scholarship 1999-2000 ,JNU, New Delhi
  • Govt. of Assam Scholarship for M Phil/Ph.D , 2001-2, JNU, New Delhi                           

Patents

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Other Information

UGC Sponsored  Academic Programmes

  • Orientation Course , from 18.10.2004 to 11.11.2004 ,Academic Staff College, JNU , New Delhi
  • Winter School on Frontiers in Humanities ,  29.12.2008 to  23.01.2009 ,Academic Staff College, JNU , New Delhi
  • Refresher Course on Global Studies , from 08.04.2013 to 03.05.2013 ,Academic Staff College, JNU , New Delhi
  • Refresher Course in Research Methodology, 13-02-2017 to 10-03-2017, HRDC, JNU,New Delhi

Convener/ Co-coordinator of organizing National and International Conferences

  • Co-Convenor, International Seminar on Reconfiguring Nationalism: Protest and Acquiescence, 6-8 February 2020, (ICSSR-NERC Sponsored ) Organised by Department of English Bodoland and Department of Political Science Cotton University.
  • Co-Convenor, International Workshop- Humanities Across Borders-Mellon Program,Leiden on Feminist Methodologies and Interactions: Custom, Law ,Resistance ,organized by Cotton University and International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden , 2-4 April,2018.
  • Co-convener ,  Continuities and Discontinuities of Asian  Engagement: Borders, Mobility and Identity in Northeast India and Asia (International ) ,October 17-18, 2013, sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi ,organized by  Department of Humanities and Social Sciences ,IIT, Guwahati in association with Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi.
  • Coordinator , National Seminar on Democracy ,Public Policy and Civil Society, Northeast India  Political Science Association Annual Conference (National Level), 9 & 10th April,2012.Cotton College, Guwahati.
  • Joint Coordinator, UGC Sponsored  National Seminar on Grassroots Democracy and Panchayati Raj institutions in India with special reference to Assam, 17 & 18 August,2012,Department of Political Science ,Cotton College, Guwahati.
  • Coordinator, Workshop on  Beyond the Usual Beats for media and scholars in Guwahati, sponsored and organized by the American Center, Kolkata in collaboration with the Centre for Journalism and Mass communication, January 21 to 23,2010 in Cotton College, Guwahati
  • Convener, Cotton Conclave:  National Young Scholars’ Meet , supported by RBI , 20 and 21 February 2008, Cotton College ,Guwahati.

Special Lectures / Invited Talk/ Resource Persons

  • ‘The Shadow of Hegemonic World Orders: Interrogating the Systemic Marginality of Sub-State Region - Northeast India since Colonialism to Neo-liberalism’ at HRDC, UGC Refresher Course, , March 6,2023. Gauhati University .
  • ‘Sub-state Region in International Relations: Perceptions from Northeast India’ delivered in Webinar: National and Military Strategy for Integration of NE Region in the Backdrop of Act East Policy, 28,January 2021,Organised by Army Training Command, Shimla, Indian Army .
  • Seminar  “ Conflict Dynamics in Northeast India” at PRIO, Oslo , August 2009 .
  • Workshop based Lecture “ Human Security: Emerging Issues and Concerns” at TISS, Guwahati, 9th September,2010.
  • Special Lecture “ Conceptualizing State and Rights: Indian State and Practices , 26th September ,2013, at TISS, Guwahati
  • Invited Lecture “ Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention: The Role of UN” , 18th January, 2009 at UGC sponsored Peace and Conflict Studies, Gauhati University
  • Invited Lecture “United Nations Peace Keeping Operations: Changing Dynamics and Challenges”, February 08 ,2010 ,  at UGC sponsored Peace and Conflict Studies, Gauhati University.
  • Invited Talk: “ Communalism in India: Background and Emerging  Challenges” in Training of Trainers on Social Harmony and National Unity,21 to 25 February,2011 , organized by Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports , National Service scheme, regional centre ,Guwahati.

UGC sponsored special Lectures on Human Rights as Resource Person

  • “ Rights of the Marginalised People: Indian Constitution and Practice in Assam”  delivered at  Pachim Dhemaji College , on 12 th October 2010 , sponsored by UGC, organized by Moridhal College, Dhemaji.
  • “Human Rights and Indian Constitution: Implication for Grassroots People”   delivered at  Simen Schapori College , on 10th  October 2010 , sponsored by UGC, organized by Moridhal College, Dhemaji.
  • “Human Rights Violations and Civil Rights Movements in Assam” delivered at  Bordoloni  Central College,  on 11 th October 2010 , sponsored by UGC, organized by Moridhal College, Dhemaji.
  • “ Tracing the Origin of Human Rights: Global Initiatives and National Practices” delivered at  Darrang College , on 13-15 July 2010 ,  UGC sponsored workshop on Human Rights and Duties, organized by Department of Political Science , Darrang College , Tezpur.

Members/Professional Bodies /Students related activities

  • BOS member: Nagaon Autonomous College, 2022
  • BOS member : Arya Vidyapeeth Autonomous College ,2023
  • BOS member : Royal Global University ,Guwahati ,2024
  • Former elected Member of the Court, Cotton College State University, Guwahati,2013-2016
  • Ex. Joint Secretary , Northeast India Political Science Association (NEIPSA)
  • Former Assistant General Secretary ,CUTA, Cotton College
  • Teachers Member and Adviser, The Cottonian , from 2006 to 2012.
  • Professor In charge, Cotton College Students Union from 2006 to 2016.