I am an environmental social scientist and urbanist examining how climate adaptation, infrastructure, and labor intersect to shape urban futures in the global South. My research investigates the translocal political economies of climate urbanism, focusing on how adaptive governance and speculative markets reconfigure labor and land-based markets under climate regimes.

Drawing on critical geography, political ecology, and science and technology studies, I study how climate–societal transitions are enacted in both lived and speculative urban spaces. My work combines ethnography, spatial analysis, and institutional methods to trace how public narratives, policy imaginaries, and everyday practices co-produce climate futures, and how resilience operates as a mutable tool of governance and securitisation.

Currently, I am extending this inquiry to industrial coastal economies, exploring how labor mobility, informality, and urban infrastructure intersect with climate risk, adaptive governance, and racialised markets. 

By foregrounding labor as a cross-cutting analytical thread, my research advances critical and applied understandings of equity, justice, and the politico-ethical logics shaping climate-resilient urbanism in emerging economies.

My book project builds on my doctoral research and extends to industrial, urban, and coastal regions, offering comparative and longitudinal perspectives on how climate futures intersect with transnational labor regimes. I examine geographies of climate urbanism, exploring how climate adaptation, infrastructure, and labor are reconfigured through translocal urban political economies.

Grounded in critical geographic thinking and environmental social sciences, my doctoral research in Surat analyzed how trans local spatial networks shape the logics, practices, and narratives through which climate securitisation and adaptive governance are embedded in urban planning. These spatial and social formations are closely tied to the labor of making cities resilient to specific risks, as well as to the discursive power of resilience as a tool of urban governance and world-making.

I argue that resilience is fundamentally mutable—as an idea, practice, instrument, and labor, it resonates across overlapping urbanisms and lifeworlds while strategically aligning with political economies where climate functions both as a shaping force and as a form of capital. These dynamics become visible when tracing interactions among public narratives, institutional imaginaries, and everyday practices, showing how climate-futuring strategies are leveraged to access “desirable” urban futures.