Krithika Srinivasan

My research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of political ecology, post-development politics, animal studies, and nature geographies. My work draws on research in South Asia to rethink globally established concepts and practices about nature-society relations. Through empirical projects on street dogs, biodiversity conservation, animal agriculture, and non-elite environmentalisms, my scholarship focuses on decolonizing and reconfiguring approaches to multispecies justice. My research and teaching are deeply rooted in long-term field engagement and praxis in India.

My current research, ROH-Indies, is focused on the street dog-public health interface in India. This project, funded by a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences, brings together history, behavioural ecology, social psychology, and more-than-human geography to investigate the conditions for multispecies health and wellbeing. 

I welcome discussions and debates with academics, practitioners, students, and others interested in my research/teaching and am happy to be contacted for copies of my publications.

Email: [email protected]

Office: Room 3.16, Old Infirmary Building, Institute of Geography,

           Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH89XP

I worked as a Lecturer in the departments of Geography at the University of Exeter and Durham University before moving to Edinburgh. I have a PhD from King’s College London and an MA from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) where I was subsequently employed as a researcher; my years at TISS have had a particularly formative influence on my work. I continue to be involved in the Indian academy through a collaboration to introduce and establish human-animal studies as a field of scholarship and education at TISS and India more broadly.

Current

Felix Clarke, 'Re-making Human and Non-Human Lives: The Politics of Reintroductions for Conservation', School of GeoSciences

Priyanshu Thapliyal, ‘Everyday knowledges of people street-dog cohabitation in central Himalayas, India’, School of GeoSciences

Completed

Guillem Rubio Ramon, 'Animal nations: More-than-human nationalisms in Catalonia and Scotland', School of GeoSciences

Anjali Dalal, 'Understanding agricultural transitions and sustainability: A study of farmers' perspectives in rural North West India', School of Social and Political Science

Elliot Hurst, Constructing wetlands and waterscapes in rural India and Scotland, Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling

Political Ecology

Food, Animals, and Society