Publications

Dr. Solano Jose Savio Da Silva

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Development Studies, Goa Land use planning, Political Science

Books

2022 with Kenneth Bo Nielsen & Heather P. Bedi, The Great Goa Land Grab, Goa 1556

Book Chapters

(Forthcoming 2025) with Tahir F. Noronha, 'Land-use Planning: From Science to Chaos', in Fish, Curry Rice: A Source Book on Goa, its Ecology, and Lifestyle (5th Edition), Claude Alvares (ed.), Ocotillo Bloom: Goa.
2024 with Kenenth Bo Nielsen & Heather P. Bedi, 'Land Use Planning, Disposession and Contestation in Goa, India' [re-print] in The Politics of Urban Land in South Asia: Current Challenges and New Direction, Urmi Sengupta & Kenneth Bo Nielsen (eds.) New Delhi: Routledge.
(2021) with Henrietta Palmer & Iain Low, 'Networks: Struggles for Land Justice and Belonging in Goa', in The Language of the Becoming City, Jovis, Berlin, pp. 133-162.
(2021) with Henrietta Palmer, Marianna Cavalcanti & Iain Low, 'Hybridity: Changing Positions of Power, Identity and Rights in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil', in The Language of the Becoming City, Jovis, Berlin, pp. 205 - 230.
(2021) with Henrietta Palmer & Iain Low, 'Commons: Urban Commoning as Counteracting Neoliberal Global Order in Cape Town, South Africa', in The Language of the Becoming City, Jovis, Berlin, 85 - 106.
(2021) with Henrietta Palmer & Iain Low, 'Conflicts: Shaping Identities and Spaces in Södertälje, Sweden', in The Language of the Becoming City, Jovis, Berlin, pp. 33 - 62.
(2017) with Kenneth Bo Nielson ‘Golden or Green? Growth Infrastructures and Resistance in Goa’, in Tereza Kuldova & Mathew Varghese, Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, pgs. 53-73.
(2014) ‘Goa: The Politics of Reversal’ in Jenkins, R., Kennedy, L & Mukhopadyay, P. (eds.) Power, Policy and Protest: The Politics of India’s Special Economic Zones. New Delhi Oxford University Press.
(2009) With Rodrigues, Maria do Ceau, ‘Goa: A Fractured Mandate’. In Yadav, Y., Suri, K.C. & Shastri, S. (eds) Electoral Politics in Indian States: Lok Sabha Elections in 2004 and Beyond. New Delhi, Oxford University Press.

Journal Publications

2024, The Making and Unmaking of Goa's Unique Alternative Urbanity, Question of Cities: Forum for Nature, People, and Sustainability. Available online: https://questionofcities.org/the-making-and-unmaking-of-goas-unique-alternative-urbanity/
2022, with Kenneth Bo Nielsen & Jigisha Bhattacharya, Hindutva and communal polarization in Goa, Contemporary South Asia. pp. 144-150.
2020, with Kenneth Bo Nielsen & Heather P. Bedi, Land use planning, dispossession and contestation in Goa, India, in Journal of Peasant Studies. pp. 1301-1326.
2006, with deSouza, Peter R, Edzia Carvalho and Sushma Pawar, ‘Dynamics of a Working Democracy: Representative Politics in a Goa Constituency’ Economic and Political Weekly, 41(16), pp. 1547-1583
2005 with deSouza, Peter R., ‘Dialogues – The Monarchy and Democracy in Nepal’, Seminar, 548 (April), pp. 54-58.
2004, with Rodrigues, Maria do Ceau, Prabhat Kumar and William Joe, ‘Goa Fractured Mandate’, Economic and Political Weekly, 39(51), pp.5532-5535.

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