MBA (Finance), University of Wales,
M.A. in Women's Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
M.Phil. in Women's Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Centre for Disasters & Development, Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies | Tata Institute of Social Sciences | Deonar | Mumbai | Maharashtra 400088
Dr. Lavanya Shanbhogue Arvind is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Disasters and Development, Jamsetji Tata School of Disaster Studies. She successfully defended her PhD in the area of Gender & Water Rights recently.
Her research & teaching Interests lie in the areas of Gender & Development, Gender & Climate Change, Gendering Sustainability & Disaster Studies, Gendering Social Exclusion, Cultural Studies, Risk Management, Risk Management, Mitigation & Assessment
She has completed her M.B.A in Finance and has 7+ years of corporate experience in the field of risk management and business continuity. She transitioned to the Social Sciences and has an M.A, M.Phil & PhD in Women Studies from the Advanced Centre for Women's Studies, TISS, Mumbai.
She was awarded the "Best Student" award and Institute Gold Medal for academic performance by the Advanced Centre for Women's Studies, TISS, Mumbai.
She was awarded the Dr. Avabai Wadia & Dr. Khurshedji Wadia Fellowship for Archival Research by Research Centre for Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai.
She has also been awarded the Writers in Immersion and Cultural Exchange (WrICE) Fellowship by Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Melbourne, Australia.
She is also a published novelist and a writer whose work has been published in both Indian and International Presses. Her debut novel, The Heavens We Chase, set in pre-partition, British India, was released by Roli Books in 2016
Additionally, she is the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Special Prize (2011). Her writings have been published in both Indian and International presses. Her non-fiction writings on feminist themes have appeared in Huffington Post, Hindu Business Line, Madras Courier, Bloomberg Quint, amongst others
Gendering Disaster Studies, Gender & Development, Gendering Social Exclusion, Gender & Climate Change, Gender & Sustainability Studies, Risk Management, Mitigation & Assessment, Gendered contexts of coping, climate change adapation & resilience, amongst others
Arvind, L. S. (2024) Janki Andharia (Ed), Disaster Studies: Exploring Intersectionalities in the Disaster Discourse (Springer Nature Singapore, 2020), 462 pp., eBook, €117.69 (Hardcover); €169.99, eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9339-7 (Hardcover); ISBN: 978-981-32-9338-0. The International Journal of Community and Social Development, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026241266664
Arvind, L. S. (2024), Book Reviews, The Humanisation of Hazards: New Configurations and Rethinking Disaster Studies. Retrieved from Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 59, Issue 7: https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/7/book-reviews/humanisation-hazards.html?0=ip_login_no_cache%3D3622a6e1db0c113044f1510312a60d52
Andharia, J., & Arvind, L. S. (2023). Vulnerability, Gender and Environmental Stress: Value Contestations in Sustainable Development Discourse. In S. Prasad, Gender, Environment and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Responses from India, Ed. Shweta Prasad. Routledge India, https://www.routledge.com/Gender-Environment-and-Sustainable-Development-Challenges-and-Responses/Prasad/p/book/9781032628417#.
Mishra, N., Arvind, L.S. (2022). Reimagining DRR in Urban Transformation: Confronting the Heterogeneity of Urban, and Negotiations in Transforming Urban Landscapes. In: Singh, A. (eds) International Handbook of Disaster Research. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8800-3_155-1
Arvind, L.S (2022), Legitimising Myths and Legends: The Social Construction of Gendered Stereotypes, Social Practices & the Social Reproduction of Subordination, History and Myth: Theory, Praxis & Politics, Routledge Publishers
Arvind, L.S. (2022). Women’s Labour, Self-help Groups and Microfinance in a Neo-liberal World: An Interrogation of the Role of Self-help Groups in the Rehabilitation of Former Devadasis in Belgaum District of Karnataka. In: Patel, V., Mondal, N. (eds) Gendered Inequalities in Paid and Unpaid Work of Women in India. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9974-0_16
Arvind L.S. (2020) Gender in Disaster Settings: Towards Sustainable Gender-Sensitive Disaster Risk Reduction. In: Leal Filho W., Azul A.M., Brandli L., Lange Salvia A., Wall T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1_132-1
J Joseph, M Jauhala, L Arvind & S. Gadavi, Wounded attachments to disaster recovery: Gendered structural violence and everyday life, Indian experiences explored, “International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction”, https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1czDa7t2zZ5mXf, 59 (2021) 102242 [Co-Author]
L. Arvind, January 2020, A Review of the National Education Policy, Quest in Education, ISSN: 0048-6434
L. Arvind, April 2020, Book Review: Back to the Sources, A Study of Gandhi’s Basic Education by Henry Fagg, Delhi: National Book Trust, 2020, Quest in Education, ISSN: 0048-6434
L. Arvind, May 2018, Socio-economic Status & Lived Experiences of Rehabilitation of Former Devadasis in Belgaum District of Karnataka, Urdhuva Mula, Published by Sophia Centre for Women’s Stuides (May, 2018)
L. Arvind, Nov 2018, Chapter titled, ‘Feminine Disruptions: The Poetics of Subversion’ to a textbook titled Interrogating Patriarchy: Essays on Contemporary Women Poets in India, Om Publications, Edited by Rajshree Tiwari. (Nov 2018)
Accepted & Forthcoming
Popular Portal PublicationS
Inclusion in Disaster Response and Relief: Reimagining ‘Last Mile’ Coverage as a Social Process, London School of Economics, South Asia Centre Blog:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2022/12/12/inclusion-in-disaster-response-and-relief-reimagining-last-mile-coverage-as-a-social-process/#comments
· Learning from natural disasters: Why an understanding of gender is critical to avoid disaster fatalities,” London School of Economics, South Asia Centre Blog: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2019/11/28/lessons-from-natural-disasters-why-an-understanding-of-gender-is-critical-to-avoid-disaster-fatalities/
· Budget 2020 through a Gender Lens, Bloomberg: https://www.bloombergquint.com/union-budget-2020/what-budget-2020-does-for-women-wheres-the-money-going
· Labour Laws through a Gender Lens, Bloomberg: https://www.bloombergquint.com/opinion/do-the-new-labour-laws-reforms-help-women
Plenary Session
Transboundary Governance of Water in Disaster Contexts: Political Economy, Debates
and Contestations: Dr. Janki Andharia and Ms. Lavanya Shanbhogue Arvind at the International Roundtable Conference titled SHIFTING LANDS, FLOWING WATERS : Transboundary Cooperation For Water And Related Issues In South Asia
Organised by: Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Oxfam India & National Institute of Disaster Management
Paper Presentations
§ Presented a paper titled, 'Risk Informed Planning for Sustainability' at the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2021, Brisbane, Australia (2021)
§ Presented a paper titled, "Socio-Economic & Psychological Aspects of Disaster Risk Management International Conference in Disaster Risk Management" (2021) at the International Conference on Disaster Risk Management
$ Presented a paper titled, "Transboundary Governance of Water in Disaster Contexts: Political Economy, Debates & Contestations" at Roundtable Conference Shifting Lands, Flowing Waters, organized by JTSDS & Oxfam
§ Presented a paper titled, ‘Locating Indian Women in the Post-Colonial Discourse on Religious Nationalism’ at the 2018 GAPS Conference at Mainz, Germany (May 2018)
§ Presented a paper titled, ‘Women in the Dravidian Movement: Gender, Linguistic Identities and Sub-Nationalism’ at the Politics of Language Workshop, TATA Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (Feb 2018)
§ Presented a paper titled, ‘A Critical Interrogation of the role of Self-Help Groups in the Rehabilitation of former Devadasis in the Belgaum District Of Karnataka’ at the International Conference on the Changing Contours of Women’s Paid and Unpaid Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (July 2018)
§ Presented a paper titled, ‘Gendering New Media: Combatting Digital Patriarchy – Challenges, Trends and Strategies’ at the National Seminar on The Movement of ‘Our’ Times: New Frameworks to Study Women’s Movements at Savitribai Phule University, Pune (Nov 2018)
Others
§ Coordinator for Subtheme 4: Women's Contribution to Sustainable Ecological Development & Climate Solutions at the XVII National Conference on Women's Studies and Women's Movements: Challenges and Resistance organised by the Indian Academy for Women's Studies (7-10 September 2023, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala)