barathi nakkeeran

Barathi Nakkeeran is a Doctoral Researcher at the Université Paris Cité, where her work examines the relationship between legal and spatial inequalities faced by waste-related workers. She recently completed an MPhil thesis on waste in colonial Madras from the University of Oxford. She also holds an M.A. in Gender Studies from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi and a B.A., LL. B from National Law University, Jodhpur. She is also a public policy researcher and has worked at the Centre for Policy Research, Centre de Sciences Humaines, and the George Institute for Global Health.​

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Her writing has appeared in academic journals (Economic and Political Weekly, South Asia Multi-Disciplinary Academic Journal, and Journal of International Affairs) as well as public-facing outlets, such as The Hindu, The Wire, Down to Earth, Chicago Review of Books, and LSE Review of Books. She is currently working on her first non-fiction book.