Manisha Desai
Professor, Executive Director of The Center for Changing Systems of Power, Empowerment Charitable Trust Endowed Professor in Global Citizenship, Senior Research Associate, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Sociology, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Interests: Gender and Globalization, Transnational Feminisms, Human Rights and Social Movements
Bio:
Manisha Desai is the Executive Director of Center for Changing Systems of Power and the Empowerment Trust Endowed Professor of Global Citizenship at Stony Brook University. Her areas of research and teaching include gender and globalization/development, transnational feminisms, global justice, particularly climate justice movements and human rights. She is a senior research associate of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and a member of the Global Network for Research and Action for a new eco-social contract. She has served in many leadership capacities including as President of Sociologists for Women in Society and received several awards for her scholarship and mentoring.
Select Works
Lost or Found? Human Rights in Eco-Social Justice Narratives Open Global Rights.
Some reflections on ‘How should we think about globalization in a postglobalization era? Dialogues in Sociology, 1 (1), 42-45.
From Invisibility towards Justice: The march of the marginalized citizens of Mumbai. Miscellanea Geographica, 28 (4), 156-159.
Beyond Sustainable Development, to Sustainable Societies. Sociology of Development, 11 (1), 38–48.