Contact
Anwesha Borthakur is primarily engaged in interdisciplinary research focusing on electronic waste (e-waste) and textile waste governance in India, South Africa, and the European Union. She completed her PhD in science policy at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India, and was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. She is currently affiliated with the same university.
During her RCC Landhaus fellowship, she intends to build on her expertise in waste management and complete a book project on e-waste and textile waste in India—two relatively invisible, ignored, and understudied waste streams in the country. She will be addressing different traits and individualities of e-waste and textile waste in the country, including the production of textiles and electronics, their consumption, and, finally, their disposal, where the informal recycling sector is a major stakeholder. Her Landhaus fellowship will be followed by a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers at the RCC.
RCC Research Project: India’s Invisible Waste Streams
Selected publications:
- “Design, Adoption and Implementation of Electronic Waste Policies in India.” Environmental Science and Pollution Research 30 (2023): 8672–81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-18836-5.
- “Policy Approaches on E-Waste in the Emerging Economies: A Review of the Existing Governance with Special Reference to India and South Africa.” Journal of Cleaner Production 252 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119885.
- with Madhav Govind. “Computer and Mobile Phone Waste in Urban India: An Analysis from the Perspectives of Public Perception, Consumption and Disposal Behaviour.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 62, no. 4 (2019): 717–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2018.1429254.
- with Madhav Govind. “Public Understandings of E-Waste and Its Disposal in Urban India: From a Review Towards a Conceptual Framework.” Journal of Cleaner Production 172 (2018): 1053–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.10.218.
- with Madhav Govind. 2017. “Emerging Trends in Consumers’ E-Waste Disposal Behaviour and Awareness: A Worldwide Overview with Special Focus on India.” Resources, Conservation and Recycling 117 (2017): 102–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2016.11.011.