& fire
I examine how transformations in agriculture, labour, migration, and rural livelihoods shape fire regimes and wildfire governance. My work explores how fires emerge through changing relations between people, land, forests, and states, particularly in the Himalayan region of India.
I investigate the role of environmental governance in processes of state-making. This includes historical and contemporary efforts to regulate fire, forests, and rural populations, as well as the ways communities negotiate, resist, and reshape state interventions.
approaches to fire
My research develops relational approaches to fire that move beyond treating fire solely as a hazard or ecological disturbance. Drawing on political ecology, anthropology, and environmental humanities, I explore fire as a dynamic participant in social and ecological life.
& wildfire risk
I am interested in how plantation landscapes, commercial forestry, and broader processes of capitalist land transformation contribute to wildfire risk. This work engages with debates around the Plantationocene, biodiversity, and environmental change.
of insurance
My emerging research examines insurance as a form of environmental governance. I am interested in how insurance markets shape responses to wildfire risk, climate adaptation, and questions of responsibility, protection, and loss.
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