Amitangshu Acharya (private)
Amitangshu Acharya is currently a Leverhulme Trust PhD Scholar at the Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, U.K. His doctoral research – a political ecology of small things – decodes middle class cultural politics which shapes the techno-mediation of urban environments in the majority world.
A political ecologist by training, Amitangshu is a researcher, international development worker, writer, and a freelance journalist. For over a decade, he has worked on water management and conservation projects in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Nepal. He has simultaneously contributed ground reports and Op-Eds on environment, culture and society in news outlets such as The Economist, U.K; The Independent, U.K; Khaleej Times, UAE, and The Economic Times, Indian Express, and The Hindu, India. His earlier research on local knowledge-based flood forecasting in Bihar, India was cited and discussed in the IPCC, Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC), in 2019. His long term research interests include postcolonial nature, politics of environmental knowledge, and decolonising sustainability science.