Suravee Nayak is an Associate Fellow with the Sustainable Futures Collaborative Research Foundation (SFCRF) at Delhi, India. Suravee’s research interests are energy and labour, political economy of coal, energy transitions, extractive industries, critical agrarian studies and nature-society relations. At SFC, her work focuses on the political economy of coal dependency, coal transitions, and ‘just transition’ in India. Prior to joining SFC, she was an Associate Fellow with the Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment (ICEE) at Centre for Policy Research, Delhi, India .
Suravee has submitted her PhD thesis with the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, India. While pursuing her PhD, she was also a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK, in 2019. During her M.Phil and PhD, she researched the political economy of coal mining in India, particularly understanding various socio-economic-ecological transitions in coal-dependent economies. Her PhD project specifically explores the labour process and labour regimes in the coal mines of Eastern India based on 18 months of ethnographic research. Her research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and on digital media.
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The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.