Contact
Deepa Kozhisseri is an anthropologist and writer passionate about gender, nature, and culture. As a socio-ecological analyst, she is inspired by recent scholarship that offers new ways of analyzing the Anthropocene. She is trained in sociology and social sciences and is adept at bringing multidisciplinary approaches to research. As she works with stories, songs, folklore, and oral histories, she is drawn to the curative power of narratives. She is keen on the emerging work in environment and society that is more than human, political, and textured. She teaches sociology, development studies, and writing and has supplementary training in film studies. She is fascinated by the play of research, new media, and arts.
Deepa completed her PhD in humanities and social sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. She finished her viva on 29 September 2024. As an RCC Landhaus Fellow, she will work on her first monograph, Forest Futures: A Feminist Political Ecology of a Frontier Healing System in Kerala.
RCC Research Project: Forest Futures: A Feminist Political Ecology of a Frontier Healing System in Kerala
Selected Publications:
- “Media Imaginations of the Collective: A Subaltern Perspective.” In Special Article Collection: Imaginations, Narratives and Mediated Performances of Solidarity and Community, edited by Nadja-Christina Schneider and Maitrayee Chaudhuri, RePLITO (2021). https://doi.org/10.21428/f4c6e600.e64dccf5.
- “‘Valli’ at the Border: Adivasi Women De-Link from Settler Colonialism Paving Re-Enchantment of the Forest Commons.” Journal of International Women’s Studies 21, no. 7 (2020): 139–52.
- “Unfolding Nomadism? A Feminist Political Ecology of Sedantarization in the Attappady Hills, Kerala.” Journal of Political Ecology 27, no. 1 (2020): 939–60. https://doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23600.
- ‘‘Food Security Rights Through Agro Biodiversity for Indigenous People of Attappady Hills, Kerala – A Case Study.“ Social Action 69, no. 3 (2019): 223–34.