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I’ve earned my PhD in Environmental Sociology from CSSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, (2006) and M.Phil in Sociology from D.S.E, Delhi University (2001). Currently, I hold the position of professor of Sociology affiliated with the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. Additionally, I also serve as an Associate faculty affiliated with the Centre for Policy Studies at IIT, Bombay. I am an Environmental Sociologist and have nineteen years of experience in higher education, both in teaching and research. My research focusses in the interdisciplinary fields of Development and Environment studies, Political Ecology, Gender and Development, Qualitative research methods, Sustainability, Governance and Urban ecology. Currently, I work in the areas of ‘Risk, vulnerability, spatial and distributive justice’ in the context of coastal commons in India. My edited volume with Amrita Sen titled ‘Regional Political Ecologies and Environmental Conflicts in India’ (Routledge, 2023) focuses on the regional political ecologies (RPEs) of environmental conflicts and broadly explores landscape-based analyses of political, economic and social issues which impact environmental changes, challenges and conflicts at the regional, local and micro-local levels.

I’m available at – spattanaik@iitb.ac.in