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Silpa Satheesh

Silpa Satheesh

Assistant Professor (Grade II)
Humanities & Liberal Arts in Management

silpa[at]iimk[dot]ac[dot]in

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Silpa’s primary areas of interest are social movements, environmental labour studies, political economy, ethnography and climate change. Using an interdisciplinary approach, her research examines the structural and micro mobilisation processes of grassroots social and environmental movements and their interactions with state and corporate organisations. In doing so, her work traces the interface between class, capitalism and social movements in the Global South.

Her book Labour, Nature and Capitalism: Exploring labour-environmental conflicts in Kerala, India (UCL Press) explores the conflicts between trade unions and working-class environmental movements surrounding an issue of industrial pollution in Kerala. Silpa’s ongoing project looks at the impact of climate change on labour, focusing on the exposure and experience of informal workers to climate risks and the role of trade unions.

  • PhD in Sociology (University of South Florida, Tampa)
  • MPhil in Applied Economics (Centre for Development Studies, JNU)
  • MA in Economics (University of Hyderabad)

Academic Positions

Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala (2022-25)

Assistant Professor, School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru (2021-22)

Instructor of Record, Department of Sociology, University of South Florida, Tampa (2018-20)

Significant Publications

Satheesh, S. (2025). Book Review: Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice by J. Martínez-Alier, Ecological Economics.

Satheesh, S., & Schmidt, D. (2025). “Kapitalismus und Natur. Konflikte zwischen Gewerkschaften und Umweltbewegung im indischen Kerala” (Capitalism and nature: Conflicts between trade unions and the environmental movement in Kerala, India). PROKLA. Journal of Critical Social Science, 55(219), 275–292.

Satheesh, S. (2025) Labour, Nature and Capitalism: Exploring the Labour-Environmental Conflicts in Kerala, University College London Press.

Pal, Nieto-Fernandez and Satheesh, S. (2024). “Postcolonial Qualitative Research in Organizational Communication,” SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Organizational Communication (eds.) Brummans, B. H., Sivunen, A., & Taylor, B. C, Sage.

Pradyumna A, Dileep, Satheesh S, Jayakumar C and Rakhal G. (2023). “No endosulfan-related health challenges in Kasaragod? Not a closed topic: A response,” Economic and Political Weekly, 58(48).

Satheesh, S. (2021). “Fighting in the Name of Workers: Exploring the Dynamics of Labor-Environmental Conflicts in Kerala,” In: Räthzel N, Uzzell D and Stevis D. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies: Palgrave Macmillan.

Satheesh, S.(2021). “Environmental Movements in the Global South,” In Bell, K (eds) Diversity and Inclusion in Environmentalism, Routledge.

Satheesh, S. (2020). “The Pandemic does not Stop the Pollution in River Periyar.” Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements, 12(1): 250-257.

Satheesh, S and Benford, R.D. (2020). “Framing and Social Movements,” In: Ritzer, George (eds) The Blackwell Encyclopedia for Sociology, 2, John Wiley & Sons.

Satheesh, S. (2020). “Moving Beyond Class: A Critical Review of Labor-Environmental Conflicts from the Global South.” Sociology Compass; e12797

Satheesh, S. (2017). “Development as Recolonization: The Political Ecology of the Endosulphan Disaster in Kasaragod, India,” Critical Asian Studies, 49(4): 587-596.

Current Projects

Labour and Climate Change: Understanding the Experiences and Perspectives of Informal Workers and Trade Unions in Kerala

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