Cornell's Department of Development Sociology prepares tomorrow’s leaders and assists today’s leaders to secure human well-being and environmental sustainability. It seeks solutions for problems related to social and economic change and engages organizations and people at all levels of society who are working to build community and local/global problem solving capacity.
The Department of Development Sociology conducts theoretical and applied research, teaching, and outreach on the causes, dynamics, and consequences of social, cultural, political and economic change.
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David L Kay
Senior Extension Associate
David Kay is a Senior Extension Associate with the Community & Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) in the Department of Development Sociology. David provides leadership to CaRDI in the area of Landscape Management and Land Use Planning, with the goal of helping to "support sound management of New... Read David L Kay's full profile
Jason Cons
I work on issues of state formation, exception, and rights in a series of enclaves along the India Bangladesh border. My research focuses on two questions. First, how have disputes over enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border shaped understandings of territory, nation, and citizenship in India and Bangladesh; Second, how are these understandings reworked within enclaves facing complicated border and institutional configurations? I answer these questions through a combination of archival and ethnographic research in both India and Bangladesh that focuses on the mutually constitutive relationship between enclaves and their home and bounding states.