March 2025 - Present
Research Fellow, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Rostock

September 2019 – January 2024
Research Fellow, DFG-RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms, University of Potsdam

April 2018 – August 2019
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*in, Department of English, University of Würzburg

2015 – 2017
Master’s degree English Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Mumbai, India

2012 – 2015
Bachelor’s degree English Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Delhi, India

I study how colonial power is consolidated during large-scale technological transitions and switches between resource regimes, with a focus on regional studies of such processes between the 18^th and 20^th centuries.  Alongside my dissertation, a longer-term project is to imagine velocities of academic work that nourish slow work and protect slow workers. I am affiliated with the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and have been a member of a DFG Network on discard studies called Waste in Motion since 2022. I also endorse via my membership and ongoing work, the mission statement of the Alliance für Kritische und Solidarische Wissenschaft (KriSol). 

My fields of interest are History of Science with a focus on energy systems, Infrastructure Studies, and Science and Technology Studies. Over the last two years, I have also been following the work of student activists in solidarity with Palestine and against militarisation in Germany, most notably the work of the Not In Our Name Collective at the Technical University Berlin.

Sept 2023 – Present
Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations (LAEHR) at the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin (https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/)

Oct 2022 – Present
DFG Network ‘Waste in Motion’ (https://waste-in-motion.org/)

Aug 2021 – Present
Low Carbon Research Methods (http://lowcarbonmethods.com/)

2020 – Present
Stsing e.V. (https://stsing.org/)

Publications

(forthcoming)
‘On Low Carbon Ethnography’ co-written with Hannah Knox, Urmi Bhattacharya and Pauline Destree. Low Carbon Methods Handbook. Goldsmiths Press. 

2024
‘Scene’. Energy Transition Inventory, published by the Chair of Digital Cultures, Technical University Dresden. 

2024
‘Wetland Futures: postcolonial ruderal ecologies in the climate crisis’. Postcolonial Text Special Issue: Ecological Solidarities in a Post/Colonial World

2023
‘Listening Session with Baldeep Kaur’. Plastisphere podcast, in conversation with Anja Krieger. https://soundcloud.com/plastisphere-podcast/listening-session

Invited Workshops and Talks

2024
Paper. ‘Archive at Rest’.
Leakages, 19. - 22. March. Technical University, Dresden. 

2024
Energy Transition Research Studio: Extractive Pasts, Sustainable Future? 11. - 18. March. Technical University, Dresden. 

2023
Paper. ‘Assemble, Extract, Discard: Afterlives of Colonial Infrastructure in South Asia’. 07. December, 2023. Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations, IEE and IRI THESys, Humboldt University, Berlin.

2022
Paper. ‘Methods paper: Observation techniques via permaculture projects’. Critical Unhabitations, 23. - 25. June, 2022. University of Rostock. 

2022
NoRS-EH PhD course “Environmental Storytelling and Narrative”. 25. - 29. April, 2022. Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Trondheim, Norway. 

2021 - 2022
Workshop. ‘Archive for the Eleventh Hour’. The Whole Life Academy, Haus der Kulturen der Welt. 07. October 2021 - 03. February, 2022.

Conference Presentations

2023
‘The canal will never break: Archival Trails from the Dry Ports of Panjab’. GAPS 2023 Postcolonial Infrastructure, University of Konstanz. 18. - 20. May.

2022
‘Wetland Futures: narrating colonialism’s ruderal ecologies in the climate crisis’. GAPS 2022 Contested Solidarities, Goethe University, Frankfurt. 26. - 29. May.

2021
‘Staying afloat: relating to/from the Landwehr canal and other slow epistemologies’. Video essay. 4S Annual Meeting,Good Relations: Practices and Methods in Unequal and Uncertain Worlds. 06. – 09. October.

2019
“‘Decolonisation is not a metaphor’: Working inside and in excess of academic machinery”. Diffracting AI and Robotics: Feminist and Decolonial Perspectives workshop. Goethe University, Frankfurt. 12. October.

2023
‘Glitter Kitchen’ and ‘Material Biographies’. Experimental events in collaboration with Marianna Szczygielska, Hanwen Zhang and Selen Solak. Matter of Flux Science and Art Festival, Art Lab Berlin. 15. - 18. June.

2022
The Plastisphere Listening Session in conversation with Anja Krieger. Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin. 12. November.

2022
Saltscapes. Art installation. In collaboration with Dr. May Joseph and Dr. Sofia Varino. Silent Green Kulturquartier Berlin. 10. - 12. November. 

2022
Archive for the Eleventh Hour. Art Installation. Concept, design, and execution by the Eleventh Hour workshop group. The Whole Life Academy, Haus der Kulturen der Welt. 24. March - 18. August.

Summer Semester 2025 (University of Rostock)
Pure Culture: an introduction to cultural techniques through practices of filtration and sorting 

Summer Semester 2019 (University of Würzburg)
Introduction to Indian Postcolonial Literature
Introduction to Australian Postcolonial Literature

Winter Semester 2018 (University of Würzburg)
Individual and Society in the Digital Age
Introduction to Canadian Postcolonial Literature