Nandini Mazumdar

I am a PhD student at the Division of Strategic Sustainability Studies (KTH SEED), enrolled in the KTH-NTU Joint PhD Programme, supervised by Professor Henrik Ernstson (KTH) and Associate Professor Junjia Ye (NTU Singapore). My research examines the political ecology of dredging and land reclamation in Singapore, with a focus on migrant labour and land-making, as part of the Terra Potentia research programme.

I am a sociologist and political ecologist whose work is concerned with how land is made, contested, and narrated and whose labour gets left out of that story. My research draws on urban political ecology and labour geography to examine how capital accumulation, commodity frontiers, and migrant labour produce urban space and how the dredge labourer is systematically rendered invisible in that process. More broadly, my intellectual formation is grounded in feminist and postcolonial theory, and I am drawn to the politics of the commons, socio-ecological justice, and questions of dispossession as orienting concerns. I hold an MA in Sociology from the University of Mumbai, where my dissertation research examined gendered access to sacred space in Shani Shingnapur and the politics of neoliberal agritourism in Junnar, Maharashtra.