AUTHORS’ BIOGRAPHIES

AUTHORS’ BIOGRAPHIES

Anuj Bhuwania (anujbhuwania [at] sau.ac.in) is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi. He studied law in National Law School of India University, Bangalore and School of Oriental and African Studies, London before doing his PhD in Anthropology at Columbia University. He has held visiting positions at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Goettingen, the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi and the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance (CSLG) in Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Jesse M. Keenan (jmk2184 [at] columbia.edu) is the Research Director of the Center for Urban Real Estate at Columbia University. Keenan serves as Vice-Chair of the U.S. Community Resilience Panel for Building and Infrastructure Systems which is an inter-agency federal unit tasked with leading policy and technical development in the built environment under the White House Climate Action Plan. He concurrently serves as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management (Emerald) and as Co-Chair of the 2016 North American Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation. His forthcoming book is entitled, Blue Dunes: Climate Change By Design (Columbia University Press). Keenan holds degrees in the law (J.D., LL.M.) and science (M.Sc.) of the built environment and a Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology.

Bradley Alexander Por (bradley.por [at] mail.mcgill.ca) is a Doctoral Candidate at McGill University in the Faculty of Law. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History and a Juris Doctor degree from UBC, and a Master of Laws degree from McGill. Bradley employs a place-based approach in his research, exploring the ways that gatherings of political actors generate power and remake law. His current doctoral thesis considers blockades by Indigenous people in Canada as enactments of Indigenous and Canadian laws. Employing fieldwork, historical, and theoretical research, this project aims to unravel dominant narratives of the Canadian state and provide guidance for thinking and working across legal orders. He has a history as a street canvasser for non-profit organizations, including Greenpeace. His areas of interest include constitutional law, legal pluralism, Indigenous peoples and the law, urban studies, legal and political theory, legal geography, and power and place studies.

Karthik Rao-Cavale (krcavale [at] mit.edu) is a Doctoral Candidate in the International Development Group at MIT, which is a part of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. He holds a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, New Jersey. He has previously taught at the Jindal School of Government & Public Policy. His research interests lie primarily within the fields of Development Studies and

South Asian Studies, but he maintains more than a passing interest in the Urban and Planning History, Socio-Legal Studies, and Heterodox Economics. His doctoral dissertation project is a social history of road transportation in southern India, and their role in the transformation of social relations in the countryside.

Peerzada Raouf (peerzadaraoufjnu [at] gmail.com) is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics (University of Delhi). He did his graduate studies at the Center for Studies in Regional Development at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and his undergraduate studies in geography at the Aligarh Muslim University. His PhD work is titled “The Political Economy of Spatio-Geographical Dimensions of Hydro Politics: A Case Study of the Energy Paradigm of Jammu and Kashmir.” His research interests are critical geography, hydro-politics, human heography, international relations and politics in South Asia. He has previously taught at Dyal Singh, Miranda House and Kirori Mal colleges of Delhi University.

Amrita Sharma (asharma [at] jgu.edu.in) is a Doctoral Candidate at the Center for Political Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and is a Senior Research Associate at the Jindal Global Law School. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, and a Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy from the Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has also contributed to independent research initiatives on the state of agriculture in India, with special emphasis on the widespread farmer suicides in Maharashtra and Punjab. Her research interests lie in the fields of political economy and political anthropology with special focus on issues of development, political movements and nationalism.

Estair Van Wagner (estair.vanwagner [at] vuw.ac.nz) is a lecturer in Property Law, Resource Management Law, Natural Resources Law, and Feminist Legal Theory Faculty of Law at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests include the relationship between property law and land use decision-making, public participation in land use decisions, critical perspectives on property law and theory, feminist and Indigenous legal theory, and environmental justice. Estair is currently nearing completion of her doctoral work on property and land use law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada. Her publications include: contributions to edited books on public health and on reproductive technologies; articles in the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Medical Law International, Environment and Planning A, and Plan Canada; and a prize winning article in the Revue general de droit.

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