Skills Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement (STRIVE), 2017
The STRIVE project, or Skills Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement, was initiated by the Government of India via the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship wi
Dr Tara Shanker Chaudhary
Visiting Faculty (Honorary)
Dr Tara Shanker Chaudhary did his Bachelor’s from University of Allahabad in 2007, Master’s in Geography in 2009 Jawaharlal Nehru University, MPhil in 2011 from Jawaharlal Nehru University and Doctor of Philosophy in 2016 from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
He did his MPhil as well as Doctorate on crime against women, sexual assaults in particular. He has been actively engaged with gender sensitization and activism both social media and on ground. He has been writing on gender related issues on social media platforms and other magazines since 2012. He has his own YouTube channel on gender related issues.
Presently, he is teaching at Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, University of Delhi as an Assistant Professor (Geography). His teaching career started in 2016.
Research Areas
Gender, Gender Based Violence, Emotional Geography, Crime against Women, Geography of Crime, Mental Map of Fear, Criminality, Patriarchy and Violence, Gender and Development, Gender Sensitization, Gender and Sexualities and Remote Sensing & GIS, Mapping crime and Violence
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