About

I am a feminist, anti-colonial urban scholar working on urban transformation, precarious work, and environmental health. In my contributions to these fields, I use mixed qualitative methods to study the connections between urban solid waste landscapes and socio-political processes of urban 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 digital and/or sustainable urban 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 am currently living between Lausanne in Switzerland and the town of Smiths Falls in Canada where my partner owns a small justice-oriented coffee roastery. When I’m not doing research or sampling fresh coffee roasts (a very important job), I enjoy hiking and being outdoors, playing/watching basketball, swimming in cold water, sewing my own clothes, and spending time with our border collie and two cats.