Malini Ranganathan awarded American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship
SIS Professor Malini Ranganathan has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the听 to carry out her research project, 鈥淎 Critical Legal Geography of Caste, Land, and the Commons in Bengaluru,鈥 In India. The fellowship,听one of the only ones exclusively for听Indian political and cultural studies, is funded by a grant from the U.S. State Dept through the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)." Many scholars who win this award produce some of the most influential scholarship on the region.
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Dr. Ranganathan听is a scholar of urban environmental justice听who studies the political economy of land, labor, and ecology in the context of capitalist urbanization, primarily in the cities of Bangalore and Washington, D.C. She focuses on听environmental casteism听and environmental racism, what she refers to as "environmental unfreedoms." She is currently working on two books. The first,听The Urbanization of Caste Power: Land, Labor, and Environmental Politics in Bengaluru, re-examines the city of Bengaluru through the analytic of caste-class power, tracing the historical and contemporary production of housing segregation, labor exploitation, and environmental injustices, and the forms of slum, legal, and union activism that have challenged these. The second,听The Long Climate Crisis: Global Political Ecologies of Caste, Race, and Migration in the Indian Ocean World,听argues that we rethink the climate crisis as a labor crisis wrought by heirarchies of caste, race, and environmental vulnerability.
Dr. Ranganathan听is co-author of听听(Cornell Press, 2023, Yoda Press 2024) and is also co-editor of听. In 2023, Dr Ranganathan was recognized with the听Harold M. Rose Award for Antiracism Research and Practice听from the American Association of Geographers.听
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