Teaching and Supervsision

I teach across thematic concerns of anthropology, political ecology, environmental humanities, research methods and place-specific courses within South Asian and postcolonial studies.

Woven in an interdisciplinary approach, my teaching is often oriented towards making the classroom more interactive with space for students to use their experience to relate to teaching materials.

Spring 2023

Course design and teaching

University of Oslo, Oslo
Department of Human Geography

PhD Course: “Emancipating knowledge and socionatures: anticolonialism and decolonisation debates”

Responsibilities: Co-designed and taught the course with Professor Andrea Joslyn Nightingale at the University of Oslo

Course Description:

Calls for decolonising our practices and scholarship are growing from around the world. Subaltern Studies, which emerged in South Asia over forty years ago, laid important foundations for rethinking historical and political analyses' conceptual and methodological basis. Latin American activist groups and scholars are now at the forefront of articulating what taking an anticolonial approach to scholarship and socionatural change might look like. In other parts of the world, calls for decolonisation are strong but with somewhat different emphases and vocabularies. In this course, we read across conversations from different parts of the world on resisting epistemological hegemonies. We emphasise situating conversations in their historical and geopolitical context and asking how these conversations demand that knowledges produced in Global North universities need to take these critiques seriously. These conversations lay a foundation for new imaginaries for an emancipated world

Tutor

Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo
Department of International Studies

Course: Academic Writing Seminar Group

Responsibilities: Overriding focus is on academic writing and how effectively it communicates what (the researcher/author) seeks to communicate to the reader. This extended to a discussion of ways in which the text does this well, techniques that have been or could be used, and ways in which it could be enhanced.

Fall 2021

Guest Lecturer (online)

Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Mapping State and Society Relationship

MODULE 1: PEOPLE AND NATURE

This module will approach the theme of people and nature from different perspectives – natural science, social science, humanities, and arts. The course will discuss the evolution of our conception of nature, our understanding of our place in nature and how nature works, and our attempts to describe, appreciate, control and manipulate nature. This module will be more multidisciplinary than interdisciplinary. It will attempt to showcase the significant variation across disciplines, historical time and geographical space in our approach to nature and the inevitable conflicts such variation generates.

 MODULE 2: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

This module will approach the gradually evolving concepts of sustainable development from the Indian to a Global perspective and, in this process, bring about the various societal forces (local and global) that evolve(d) the meanings of sustainability and sustainable development, emerging debates and likely conflicts in the future. Is sustainability Science? Examining how people of natural, engineering and social sciences perceive sustainability in different perspectives or domains and the potential to integrate these perspectives for completeness, S&T is championing sustainable development. Measuring sustainability and evolving indices for sustainability. 

Spring 2020

University of London
School of Advanced Study

Teaching Assistant

Course: MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights

Module: Social Research Methods

Core Teaching: Ethnographic Research, Interviews and Focus Groups, Ethical Implications of Social Research, Historical sources, archives and oral histories, Indigenous Memory Studies in Global South.

Co-convener and Tutor

“Summer School on Normativity and Reality of Human Rights, Human rights vulnerability to AI and ICT” at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.                      

Lecture: “Human Rights, Indigenous People and Environmental Rights”.

Seminar Tutor

Module: Research Methods – Oral history

Guest Lectures

Guest Lecture

DePauw University, Greencastle Indiana
Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Lecture: “Riverine Rights and Resource Conflict in the Himalayas” for the B.A. course: “Nature, Wealth, & Social Conflict”

November 2021

Guest Lecture

University of Oslo
Department of Social Anthropology

MA-course “Advanced Anthropological Methods”