Aishwarya Kazi

Kazi is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology. She is interested in how state-led development, environmental technologies, and the material and discursive effects of climate change come together to produce conditions of dispossession in a postcolonial context. How do people inhabit vulnerable ecologies that go through cycles of becoming value and ‘waste’? What are the effects of the collision of ‘natural’ and ‘anthropogenic’ forces on such lifeworlds? The proposed study is situated at the intersection of environmental anthropology, history of development, political ecology, and science and technology studies (STS) with a regional focus on the Bengal delta in South Asia. Before joining Yale, she was enrolled in a PhD program at IIT Delhi. Prior to that she got an MA in Development and Labour Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and a BA in Sociology from Presidency University, Kolkata.