IITKGP

Jenia Mukherjee

Associate Professor

Humanities and Social Sciences

jenia@hss.iitkgp.ac.in

Advisory Board Member, British Academy funded research project on Reimagining the Good City from Ennore Creek, Chennai (2022-24) | Selected as the only Indian Representative for the Asian Society for Environmental History Founding Committee, AEAEH of the five-member global team | Recipient of Swiss National Science Federation funded SOR4D Project on Transboundary Sundarbans | DAAD Fellowship to work with school children of Kolkata wetlands - experiencing and exploring the keystone ecosystem using the 'ethno-graphic' approach | Recipient of Carson Writing Fellowship, 2018-19 from the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, Munich (Germany) |

Responsibilities

  • Assistant Warden, Mother Teresa Hall

Research Areas

  • Transdisciplinary Waters
  • Environmental Humanities
My interest and exposure to transdisciplinary environmental frameworks, more specifically Environmental Humanities has made me realize the need to transcend epistemological research into meaningful and multiple axiologies. It's both "knowing" and "doing" that matters. I feel commited to nurture "academic social responsibility", "acknowledging catastrophe," yet, "imagining possibilities" during the Anthropocene.
  • Blue infrastructures: Natural Ecology, Political History and Urban Development in Kolkata Mukherjee J. By - (2020)
  • Sustainable Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities Mukherjee J. By Sustainable Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities - (2018)
  • New Epistemologies of Water in India [Special Issue] Mukherjee J. By Ecology, Economy and Society The INSEE Journal 3 - (2020)
  • Beyond (Un)Stable: Chars as Dynamic Destabilisers of Problematic Binaries Mukherjee J., Lahiri-dutt K. , Ghosh R. By Social Anthropology - (Accepted/In-Press)

Principal Investigator

  • Dried Fish Matters: Mapping the Social Economy of Dry Fish in South and South East Asia for Enhanced Well-being and Nutrition
  • Ethno-graphy on the Kolkata Wetlands - Historically Enriched Relevant Intervention through Toolkit Aided Grassroots Engagement (HERITAGE)
  • Reimagining the Good City from Ennore Creek Chennai
  • SMART technological innovation and experimentation for dry and inland fishing in the Indian Sundarbans Delta
  • Social Resilience in the Sundarbans Delta - Eliciting Needs-based Grassroots Action through Cross-Group Engagement (ENGAGE)
  • Vulnerability to Viability (V2V): Global Partnership for Building Strong Small-Scale Fisheries Communities

Co-Principal Investigator

  • An innovative adaptation and social resilience framework: using a multi-sectoral approach to address climate vulnerability issues in the Indian Sundarbans Indian Council of Social Science Research

Ph. D. Students

Amit Kumar Das

Area of Research: Environment

Gunjan Chowhan

Area of Research: Sociology

Lina Bose

Area of Research: Environmental History

Maneesh Rawat

Area of Research: Environmental History

Pritwinath Ghosh

Area of Research:

Priyadarsini Sinha

Area of Research: Environmental Social Sciences

Raktima Ghosh

Area of Research: Socio-ecological Systems

Santanu Sarkar

Area of Research: Drama Therapy based on Indian and Western concepts of Dramaturgy

Saurabh Sharma

Area of Research: History

Shreyashi Bhattacharya

Area of Research: Environmental History

Snigdha Mondal

Area of Research: Narratives of the Mahabharata

Souradip Pathak

Area of Research: Environmental Rights and Climate Change

Subhradeep Chatterjee

Area of Research: Critical Theory

Sukanya Borkataki

Area of Research: Sociology

MS Students

Poulami Ghosh

Area of Research: Socio-ecological Systems