About

I am a feminist, anti-colonial urban scholar working on urban transformation, precarious work, and environmental health with a focus on solid waste and wastewater governance. In my contributions to these fields, I use mixed qualitative methods to study the connections between waste landscapes and socio-political processes of sustainable development in South Asia and Canada.

My ongoing research projects examine the ways that power operates through urban imaginaries and governance mechanisms which perpetuate and create new inequities in the transformation of urban spaces, service delivery and infrastructures. I am concerned with social, spatial, and environmental justice in my work and center these themes in my research and teaching praxis. In pursuing justice, I look to/emphasize the expertise and experiences of urban inhabitants who are often marginalized in urban development processes to investigate the gendered, classed, casted, racialized, and ableist dimensions of sustainability-oriented transformations.

I have had the opportunity to develop research projects and teach interdisciplinary courses in geography and international studies focused on topics like global cities and urbanization, environmental health, gender and development, technology and society, the politics of sustainability, and global political economies of consumption. My research has been published in academic journals, online publications/blogs, working papers, and in reports for community partners in India and Canada.

I recently moved to Corner Brook, Newfoundland with my partner and our border collie and two cats. We are keen hikers and outdoorsy folks, so are loving the incredible hiking and access to the stunning outdoors in the island. You might also find me at sewing my own clothes, playing/watching basketball, bowling in the local women’s league with our Grenfell faculty team – the Pin Pony Club, or enjoying a sauna/cold water swim.