Associate Fellow, Energy Transitions

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Suravee Nayak is an Associate Fellow in the Energy Transitions vertical at the Sustainable Futures Collaborative (SFC). Suravee’s research interests are the political economy of coal, energy and labour, extractive industries, critical agrarian studies and nature-society relations. At SFC, her research engages with various aspects of just transition in India, in particular, coal dependencies, labour and gender transformative approaches, state capacity, and governance framework. Prior to joining SFC, she was an Associate Fellow with the Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment (ICEE) at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi. Suravee holds an MPhil in Applied Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and she is currently completing her PhD with Jawaharlal Nehru University through the Centre for Development Studies-CDS Thiruvananthapuram, India. During her MPhil and PhD, Suravee researched the political economy of coal mining in India, particularly understanding various socio-economic-ecological transitions in coal dependent economies. Her PhD thesis specifically explores the labour process and labour regimes in the coal mines of Eastern India based on 18 months of ethnographic research. While pursuing her PhD, she was also a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK, in 2019. Suravee is a recipient of European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS) Research Student Award for the year 2021. Her research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including with The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), Social Change, Economic & Political Weekly (EPW), book chapters with Routledge and De Gruyter, and on digital media.