Nairita Roy Chaudhuri

Bio

PhD research title - Climate change adaptation to water scarcity as boundary struggles: Case studies from rural parts of eastern India

My doctoral study, under the EDOLAD (European Joint Doctorate in Law and Development) program, explores the role of law in enabling subaltern communities across intersectional relations of gender and other local contexts, to sustainably adapt to water scarcity and droughts under climate change. I employ a grounded theory methodology that centers the subaltern perspective for answering the research question. To this end, I relied upon qualitative and participatory research methods to do fieldwork in rural parts of eastern India from December 2021 to May 2022. 

My educational background includes a Master's in Development Studies and a Bachelor's in Law, both earned in India. Prior to embarking on my Ph.D. journey, I worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in an international development organization.

Recente publicaties

1. Ethics and epistemic injustice in the Global South - A response to Ho…

   Kaur, K., Grama, B., Chaudhuri, N. R., & Recalde-Vela, M. J. (2023). Ethics and epistemic injustice in the Global South: A response to Hopman’s human rights exceptionalism as justification for covert research. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 15(2), 347-373.

2. [Review of the book The climate of history in a planetary age, D. Cha…

   Chaudhuri, N. R. (2022). [Review of the book The climate of history in a planetary age, D. Chakrabarty, 2021]. REVIEW OF EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE & INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, 1-3. Advance online publication.

3. The politics of resource scarcity and overpopulation in the anthropoc…

   Chaudhuri, N. R. (2022). The politics of resource scarcity and overpopulation in the anthropocene: [Review of the book Limits: Why Malthus was wrong and why environmentalists should care, Giorgios Kallis, 2019] . World Affairs, 185(1), 207-225.

4. Exploring sustainable degrowth-based adaptation to climate change-agg…

   Roy Chaudhuri, N. (2022). Exploring sustainable degrowth-based adaptation to climate change-aggravated water insecurity in parts of rural India: A gender relations approach. wH2O: The Journal of Gender and Water, 9(1), 34-49. Article 1. https://repository.upenn.edu/wh2ojournal/vol9/iss1/1/

5. Social movements and grassroots discourse of climate justice in the c…

   Roy Chaudhuri, N. (2021). Social movements and grassroots discourse of climate justice in the context of droughts: A case study in India. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 11(1), 69-107.