Biography

I am a political geographer by training. My research and teaching is at the intersection of political geography, geopolitics, political economy and critical studies. My primary research interests lie in hydro-politics, climate change adaptability, disasters and disaster management, state-capital relations, resource extractivism, and cartography. My work develops a critical approach to questions of class, state formation and nationalism in the context of the Indian sub-continent. 

I have a cumulative teaching experience of 12 years. Before joining JGU, I taught environmental geography and geographical thought at Miranda House, Kirori Mal College and Dyal Singh College of University of Delhi. My experience as an educator and interactions with my students has stoked my secondary research interests in critical pedagogies, popular café cultures and digital humanities. I am interested in exploring these questions via their interactions with capital and neoliberalism. 

My works have been published in peer-reviewed, Scopus indexed journals and popular magazines including Projections: MIT Journal of Urban Planning, Human Geography, History of the Present, Wasafiri, The Caravan. My essay ‘Routines of Resistance’ was nominated for the Ramnath Goenka Award and received a special mention at the Red Ink Awards in conflict writing (2019).